Our musical background
This program is related to emotions. The goal is make the teeneagers aware of their emotions.
Sound world in our class
Go on PADDLET and upload your favourite music. Then enter more times to check what is the music your mates upload.
- What music do you share with them?
- Do you like all their songs? why not?
- What do you pay atention? the lyrics? the music? the video? the singer?
- Choose two songs that you like the most. What do you like from these two songs? Why?
CREATING A RAP
Use all the ideas-feelings-vocabulary you wrote on your portfolio/blog and create a poem or lyrics to record a rap.
You will have help to do it
1. Find a rap base on the web to practice.
2. Recite your lyrics to practice
OPITIONS TO WRITE YOUR RAP:
- write sentences with 13 syllabes. the accent must be on the last.
Ex.: teño moitas gañas de saír a descansar.
- Express freely aloud voice your sentences. You can change what you dislike.
- Write on your own style.
- We can use a music base from internet and record our voice (audacity program)
- We can use emule app to record our rap.
DifusiOn ON A RADIO PODCAST
We have the oportunity to share our music with the school
Music in our affective world
Teenagers are always listening to music.
That is why music is a friend of you. Music makes us feel emotions: happyness, company, relax, and it never leave us.
In your bad moments you music is useful for you.
Words to define emotions
What type of words can we usse to define our feelings?, what emotions do we experiment when we listen to our music?
MAKE YOUR PORTFOLIO
Open a blog on blogger or other web if you know more.
Write on it all the information you get from your reflection.
Publish posts with:
- your personal conclusions.
- vocabulary your learn
- family likes
- links to your favourite songs, your friends songs, your family songs...
Our musical background
In order to be aware of your feelings when you listen to music, you should have a look to your past life and try to remember what kind of music you listen when you were a child, when you were a baby...
You know that our songs are in our mind forever. You will never forget them.
TRY TO REMEMBER or talk to your relatives to know more about your musical background.
MY FAMILY AND MY MUSICAL BACKGROUND
What is my musical background coming from?
Are my family's likes part of my musical backgroung or not?
Where did my musical background start? in my family? in the school? with my friends?
Who influenced me?
BOTH IF YOU ANSWER YES OR NO TO THESE QUESTIONS, TRY TO INVESTIGATE A LITTLE BIT.
Ask at home: (parents, granparents, siblings...)
- what songs are part of your musical background?
- what music did you listen to when you were a child or a teenager.
- what other sound memories do you have from your childhood?
- Google these songs and listen to them.
Assessment
1.
SOUND WORLD OF OUR CLASS: uploaad materials: music, comments in English. Analize your lyrics and others'
1 point
2.
MUSICAL BACKGROUNG OF MY FAMILY: reflection about your family's sounds and music
1 point
3.
WORDS TO DEFINE FEELINGS: looking for words to define how music makes me feel
1 point
4.
YOUR PORTFOLIO WITH YOUR POSTS: these posts must show your reflection about different points.
1 point
5.
SUMMARY: YOUR MUSICAL BACKGROUND, PRESENTATION: show your habilities on TICS, your writing competence in English, your ideas in a clear way... rubric.
3 points
6.
CREATION OF A RAP: it can be individual or in couples.
3 points
Summary of activities
To assess this project you must do:
1- A digital portfolio (blog, web...) with posts where you can show your reflection about the project.
2- Upload your music in a paddlet and talk in class about your lyrics or other students' music.
3- Create a presentation (picktochart, genially, slideshare, prezi...) with your summary of musical background. Present it in class.
4- Create your rap and record it.