Students will:

1. Use the Internet Workshop model and the strategies of Student Team Learning
2. Create a visual timeline from the Medieval Time Period through the Twentieth Century
3. List the eras with 4 famous composers per time period
4. Identify and define 2 specific types of music per era
5. List 4 specific important non-musical events in world history
6. Develop a summary paragraph which reflects the time period
7. Share information within the group
8. Listen to a brief musical selection from each era
9. Describe and analyze each musical selection and summarize in a writing
10. Create a final product demonstrating understanding of the music history eras to share with class

Students will:

• listen to, describe and analyze music
• make connections between music, other disciplines and daily life
• understand music in relation to history and culture

• Create graphic organizer to organize ideas for informative webpage
• Interpret text by using prior knowledge and experiences
• Use a variety of monitoring and self-correcting methods (skimming, scanning, reading ahead, re-reading, using resources, summarizing, re-telling, re-adjusting speed)
•  Interact with others in creating, interpreting and evaluating written, oral and visual texts
• Gather, select, organize and analyze information from primary and secondary sources
• Engage in a process of generating ideas, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing or presenting
• Proofread and edit for grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization
• Speak and write using conventional patterns of syntax and diction

Historical Thinking:

• Examine data to determine the adequacy and sufficiency of evidence, point of view, historical context, bias, distortion and propaganda and distinguish fact from opinion.
• Analyze data in order to see persons and events in their historical context, understand causal factors and appreciate change over time.
  

Local United States and World History:

2. Critically evaluate the websites for relevancy to specific strand

3. Use Word for the summaries (writing, revising and editing)

4. Use of sound bytes and images in final presentation

5. Scan photos, if necessary

6. Students will be encouraged to explore the use of:

a. Powerpoint

b. Publisher

c. Video Production

d. Digital Camera

e. Scanner