Soundtrack
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24: You are welcome to use today's class to work on Science
Fair research. If you are finished with that work, please continue to work on
the Soundtrack assignment.
Happy Thanksgiving!
We’ve just finished discussing the ways music can affect mood—your mood, the
mood of a movie, the way music is used in our world. Using the novel THE
OUTSIDERS, identify 10 key events from the novel.
Next, determine a song that will fit well with this event—as if it were in a
movie. You are welcome to think of songs from other movies you’ve seen, but
be sure to mix it up. You may not use any songs already on the soundtrack to
THE OUTSIDERS. There’s a great resource—and time waster—I’ll share with you
called the Internet Movie Database. Certainly use songs you listen to, songs
you hear your parents listen to, whatever will work to set the mood.
Above all, your song must be school appropriate.
Use Word.
For each event, you must list:
Event (chapter and page number in parentheses)
Song title
Artist
Several sentences (5-7 sentences)explaining why you chose this song for this
event. Feel free to use lines from the song to illustrate your point.
Consider some of these points: Is it the beat? The lyrics? The tone? What do
you imagine the characters are feeling? How is this reflected in the song?
Format your document attractively. Use up to three appropriate pictures, if
you like.
Bonus:
If you finish early, you may. . .
Add more events to your soundtrack
Design the album cover
Design the cover for the DVD
Write the lyrics to a song that could be on the soundtrack—again, keeping it
all school appropriate.
You will have three weeks, over the course of four weeks, to work on this
assignment in the Lab.
The rubric that will be used to assess this assignment is in the Student Drop
Box.
Feel free to use the Internet Movie Database for music ideas--but
stay focused on this assignment, please.
http://www.imdb.com/
Chapter Summaries for THE OUTSIDERS
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/outs/
INFOhio. . .
http://www.infohio.org/ER/ER6-8.asp
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Traveler IQ Challenge
Vocab Workshop Fun
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
Check out Religion Quizzes here.
http://www.blestarewe.com/school/teachers/baw_units/8main.html
November 17 and 20
On these two days, you'll be taking time out from your Soundtrack project to
work on some reasearch. Use the information given to you by your science
teacher and the Infohio link above to conduct your research. Good luck!
P.S. Yes, you can access Infohio from home. Talk to me about how!