Choose Your Topic

Hope you have a great day at school!  I miss teaching you and can't wait to see you when my little one is feeling better.

Today you are going to choose between the two options below.

1)  COMPOSERS

Choose at least two composers to learn about from the list below.  Create two thinking maps to show what you have learned. You must compare the two composers in one of the maps.  In the other map, you can focus on only one composer or both.

Give interesting and important details in your maps.  (Telling that the person is a composer is NOT an interesting or important detail as we already know they are composers... same goes for saying that they write music.)

Each composer has several links that give you plenty of information.  Please read each link before beginning your thinking maps!

A) Mozart (pronounced Mot-zart)
Kids Music Corner
Classics for Kids
KidzWorld
DSO Kids

B) Beethoven (pronounced Bay - toe - ven)
Kids Music Corner
Classics for Kids
KidzWorld
DSO Kids

C) Haydn (pronounced High - din)
Kids Music Corner
Classics for Kids
DSO Kids

D) Schubert (pronounce Shoe-bert)
Kids Music Corner
Classics for Kids
Biography 

E) Philip Glass
Kids Music Corner
Classics for Kids
Biography




2) STYLES OF MUSIC

Choose at least two styles of music to learn about.  Create two thinking maps to show what you have learned. You must compare the two music styles in one of the maps.  In the other map, you can focus on only one style or both.  If looking at Rock 'n' Roll music, you might want to use a tree map to list the different artists who performed from each decade.

Give interesting and important details in your maps. (Telling that it is a style of music is NOT an interesting or important detail as we already know this.)

1) Rock 'n' Roll
Elvis and the American Dream
Rock Music TimeLine - read about the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, etc...

2) Hip Hop
Education World - will have to scroll down to read about what it was and the four elements of hip hop
KidzWorld
Wikipedia

3) Classical
Kids Music Corner
Classics for Kids

4) Opera
History of Opera
Buzzle
Europa

5) Pop
Shine Music
Music Genres

6) Jazz
Jazz in America
Classics for Kids
Smithsonian Jazz