In
honor of the many heroic men and women who have greatly contributed to Black
History, all 6th Grade students will complete a project that pays
respect to these figures. This year’s
Black History project will be a combination of an essay, music, oral
presentation and a visual presentation.
Instructions:
Students
will be allowed to pair up with another student to complete this project. There can be no more than two students per
project!!! This is NOT a requirement;
students can complete the
project on their own.
***Mrs.
Yancie has to approve the partners if you choose to work in a group***
Students
will create a soundtrack for their assigned Black History figure. Mrs.
Yancie will assign each student or pair a Black History figure. For each figure, the following will need to
be handed in for full credit:
1)
A song-choose a song
that you believe describes your person, relates to his/her life in some way,
reminds you of your assigned person, etc.
For example: “The Journey/Kopano”
for Marcus Garvey; “Colored People” by DC Talk for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.;
“Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday for Ida B. Wells (we will listen to these in
class)
2)
An essay-explain why you
chose your song and how it relates to your person. Select at least
three lines in the song and
explain how you believe these words from the song relate to your
person. Do not give a long list of biographical
information other than the basics (date of
birth, age, where he/she was born,
date of death, etc.). You will get
points taken off. Use the
song to tell about the
person!
3)
CD covers for
the soundtrack-BE
CREATIVE!!! Create a CD cover for the soundtrack for your person. This cover should feature the name of the
person and the title of the song. DO NOT HAVE A PICTURE OF THE PERSON ON THE
CD COVER!!!! Be creative when
choosing images that relate to the person.
4)
Oral
presentation-each
students or pair will be required to present their soundtrack and poster to the
class. Students need to describe the
song, explain why they chose it and how it relates to their person. YOU
CAN NOT READ DIRECTLY FROM YOUR BOARD!!!
You are to have a prepared oral presentation ready on the due date!!! You must save the lyrics on your flash
drive on a Word Document or a PowerPoint slide to present to the class during
your presentation.
The following
will be posted on a BLACK
poster
board:
·
Lyrics
to the chosen song (which must have the name of the song and the writer of the
song);
KEEP ALL LYRICS CLEAN!!! If the lyrics are offensive, this
will result in an automatic
loss of 75 points!!!
·
Essay:
TYPED, Double space, size 12, and Times New Roman Font
o
One
student – one page
o
Two
students – two pages
·
CD
Cover: WARNING!!! The less creative you are, the less credit
you will receive
o
Can
be no smaller than 8x11
·
Your
poster must be decorated creatively, attractively, and must not be sloppy and
show little
effort! You WILL NOT receive
full credit!
This project is worth 200 points
Extra Credit:
·
If
you bring in the actual song for the class to hear, you will receive extra
credit. You will
not be able to pull the
song up on www.youtube.com during your
presentation.
·
Any
extra work (such as “double CD covers”, two page essay if you are not doing
this
project with a partner, etc.)
DUE DATE: THURSDAY, February 7,
2013
