Black History Month



Black History Month

Multigenre Project

February 2006

7th and 8th Grade Band Students

• Choose an African American musician to research from the provided list of composers, performers, lyricists, and conductors.

• Begin collecting sources of information. Read, listen to, and view a variety of texts in a variety of genres, such as newspapers, movies, CDs, the Internet, documents, books, and magazine articles.

• Prepare a 5 minute presentation of the information you have collected about your musician. Select three different genres from the provided list to use in presenting your findings. When choosing your three genres, think about which ones will be most effective in sharing the information about your chosen musician.

• Include a bibliography page to cite the sources you used to collect your information.

Black History Month

Multigenre Project

Musician List

Cannonball Adderly

Louis Armstrong

Count Basie

Chuck Berry

Benny Carter

Ray Charles

Nat King Cole

John Coltrane

Miles Davis

Johnny Dodds

Warren “Baby” Dodds

Duke Ellington

Ella Fitzgerald

Aretha Franklin

Dizzy Gilespy

Lionel Hampton

Slide Hampton

Herbie Hancock

Coleman Hawkins

Roy Haynes

Jimmi Hendrix

Billie Holiday

Quincy Jones

Scott Joplin

B.B. King

Wynton Marsalis

Thelonius Monk

Jelly Roll Morton

King Oliver

Charlie Parker

Oscar Peterson

Sonny Rollins

Art Tatum

Grover Washington Jr.

Muddy Waters

Stevie Wonder

Black History Month

Multigenre Project

Genre List

Newspaper article: obituary

Newspaper/magazine article: feature story, news story, column, interview

Newspaper article: personal or want ad

Newspaper/tabloid cover

Newspaper review: movie, book, concert, etc.

List of achievements, events, names, supplies, etc.

Narrative story

Play

Poem

Sheet Music

Personal letter or note

Formal letter

Letter to the editor

Memo

Journal/diary entry

Descriptive paragraph

Television/radio announcer (video/audio)

Definition

Poster (wanted poster, playbill, concert, movie, etc.)

Conversation/dialogue

Photo with caption

Eulogy

Wedding invitation

Doctor’s report

Birth certificate

Recipe

Receipt

Envelope

Trivia facts

Quotes

Greeting card

School essay

Game

Book cover

Map

Black History Month

Multigenre Project

Scoring Rubric

|Cover sheet with title of your project, your name, and the date. | |

| | |

| |2 points |

|Table of contents with title and description of each piece in | |

|your project. | |

| |4 points |

|Three documents/artifacts in three different genres related to | |

|the musician you selected. | |

| |30 points |

|Bibliography of sources used in your research. | |

| |4 points |

|Creative presentation of information. | |

| |10 points |

|Total points earned out of 50 possible points: | |

| |/50 |

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