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Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Grade 4 : Composers Guided Research Project (2017/2018)

Students will work in groups of 3 members. Each group will have a group leader. The group leader will communicate with the teacher and oversee the project flow. The group members will be responsible for the following:

  1. Research and compile information to share about the composer
  2. Include one song by your composer to play during presentation
  3. Create a PowerPoint representing the composer
  4. Research instrument used by the composer, as well as famous songs
  5. include any other background information (history, regions, influences, etc) for the composer
  6. Present the data to the class
Class 1
  • Students will be assigned to groups and a group leader will be appointed
  • Students will select a composer to research
  • Students will fill out their presentation rubric
Class 2
  • Students will research information for their project
  • Students will record informational facts about their genre onto their presentation note
Class 3
  • Group leaders will provide an update on groups progress
Class 4
  • Each group will create a short PowerPoint presentation to share with their class
  • The presentation should conclude with a listening example from the composer
Class 5
  • Students present composer PowerPoint to their class
Class 6
  • Students will play a game of 'Name that Composer', featuring songs from all 4th-grade composer research presentations
List of composers:

  • Adele
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven
  • Irvin Berlin
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Georges Bizet
  • Johannes Brahms
  • John Cage
  • Ray Charles
  • Kelly Clarkson
  • Frederic Chopin
  • Aaron Copland
  • Duke Ellington
  • George Gershwin
  • Elton John
  • George Fredric Handle
  • Joseph Haydn
  • Beyonce Knowles
  • Scott Joplin
  • Francis Scott Key
  • Franz Liszt
  • Paul McCartney
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Carl Orff
  • Dolly Parton
  • Franz Schubert
  • Camile Saint-Saens
  • Clara Schuman
  • John Philip Sousa
  • Igor Starvinsky
  • Taylor Swift
  • Pyotr Llyich Tchaikovsky
  • Carrie Underwood
  • Guiseppi Verdi
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • John Williams
  • Pharrel Wiliams

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