October 3, 2012

ENG2P - Who is Your Favourite Music Artist?             October 3, 2012


You are going to make a presentation on a musical performer or band that you like.

For this project, you are going to need to use some presentation software like Keynote on the iPads or iMacs, Prezi online, OpenOffice or PowerPoint on the PC.

You will need to learn for yourself how to use these software tools, using Google, trial and error and working with those around you.

Your teacher will help you when necessary, but part of the assignment is grappling with these problems on your own and learning how to solve them.

The purpose of this project is to convince an audience (your teacher) that the artist (living or dead) you’ve chosen is worthy of their attention.

You can word it like this: “Mr. Lobb/McClinchy, you should be listening to _____.”

The rest of your project will basically be showing many reasons why.

Another key to this project is PROPER SPELLING and PARAGRAPH structure.

There will be TEN steps to this assignment/project.

Each time you have completed one step, you will be given the next step.

Step 1 is below.

Step 1

Do some initial brainstorming on THREE music artists that you think are important.
Write down FIVE reasons why for each artist in some graphic organizer format.
From that list, choose ONE artist.

Once you have your artist, you need to complete a short biography of that band/performer/etc.

A good biography would have some general background, life story info, discussion about the key changes in that artist’s life and career, something about their history in music, what genre or type of music they make, and so on.

Write out the response to Step 1 in good clear paragraphs, one paragraph to each new element of information.

You should have this step done in a few days.