October 11, 2012

Journal #12

What is your opinion of the Texas school district’s plan to RFID-tag students in high school to track them and know where they are at all times. Further, students who refuse to be tracked will lose rights and privileges.

How would you respond to this kind of situation? What would you do about it?






Step 3 - Musician Presentation Project - ENG2P

If you have this sheet, it means you have completed Steps 1 and 2.

And now, you have earned your way into Step 3, which is going into a little more detail on the artist that you like.

And yes, this is a BIG chunk of work.

A Short Series of Questions about the Artist You Like

For the following questions, I am asking you to go to THREE different sources of information. The most obvious would be three web sites, but if you want to use books or magazines (I have a lot of Rolling Stone magazines in the back of my room).

List the THREE sources that you used for your research.

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Describe the early career of this artist. How did he/she/they get his/her/their start? Do this on a separate sheet of paper in a good paragraph style.

What do you think made this artist/band stand out from the rest? Getting famous usually takes luck, talent and something that people call X FACTOR. (thus the title of that show Simon Cowell does...)

Thinking about that, what X FACTOR could your performer have? Think about what might make your artist/band special and explain in yet ANOTHER paragraph on that same separate sheet of paper.

Give the discography of your artist/band. List the major releases. For each one that you know, give a little rating scale so I can learn which one is your favourite.

List the FIVE best songs by this artist/band in order from 1-5.

b) List THREE songs you don’t like by this artist/band and give a short, one-sentence reason why you don’t like each of these songs.

One you’ve finished this, submit your material and move on to Step 4, which will be much more fun (and have a LOT less writing).