Listen carefully while your educator reads a story to you.

Now see how many questions you can answer from just listening:

What did he intend doing with his new knowledge about instruments and sound?

Explain the use of the commas in,

“ music-producing items include guitars, tambourines, bottles and glasses . .

Change the following into the past tense:

Why is there an apostrophe in “father’s guitar”?

The title “Sounds all Around” uses a poetic device. Give it its real name and explain it in the title.

Reading rhythm and musical rhythm are very similar. We seem to remember words that form a rhythmic pattern quite easily, e.g. the repetition of ‘m’ and the assonance is attractive in . . .

Now, as a group, write 6 – 10 lines of poetry that rhyme and make use of repetition.

e.g. The fox hid in the box, hid in the boxin a flurry; in a hurry, hurry, hurryThe goose, the moose, the goosy moosethe kangaroo and you, you, yousat on the mat, sat on the mat to wait for his mate, who came too late!

Now, as a group, rap your poem to the class.

e.g. The sea feels the pullOf the wind and the currentAnd moves to the beach.

A quartet is a poem of four lines, rhyming ABAB or ABBA, usually in iambic pentameter:

This means a poem looking something like this, with the rhyme as follows:

Rhythm is: light-strong/ light-strong / light-strong / light strong / light-strong (5) syllables.

e.g. The sea / comes in / to play / today / for fun

The sea / comes in / to play / today / for fun

The girls / and boys / arrive / and laugh / and run

The dogs / and cats / all seem / to un/ derstand

That play/ and sand / and sun / is real/ ly grand.

Now YOU try:

My Haiku

Rough work:________

Final product:_______

My Quartet_______

Rough work:______

Final product:______

In your group, do some research on a music group or music artist.

1. Choose an artist or group

2. THREE sources of reference in your bibliography.

Rough notes:

Rough bibliography: (as above)

Include a content page for your fact file to help you plan.

e.g. His / their childhood and background

Rough notes:

4. Include drawings or illustrations (but must not outweigh the content) with captions.(Do these on your own paper).

5. Hand in a pre-determined progress report with dates:

Date for starting project

Date for completing fact-finding

Date for completing illustrations

Date for completing bibliography

Date for handing in

Rough work evaluation

Final product:

Bibliography:

5/6 different aspects of the artist or group: Give the separate headings:

Choose one of the following ways of interviewing or any other choice of your own:

Panel discussion / Radio interview (without phone-ins) / Oprah Winfrey-type interview

First prepare your questions:

Rough notes on the types of questions to ask:

TIPS:

Now do the actual interview:

Your group has performed in a large venue for thousands of fans.

Write two reviews: One praising the concert; one slating it.

Use the following to check whether you have covered every aspect of the concert:

Extra notes to assist you

Please look at the following note on editing: they will help you:

Editing (the post-writing phase) is very important.

It has three main functions:

1. To correct grammatical mistakes

2. To find out if you followed the instructions

3. To correct the writing structure

Editing becomes second nature after a while.

Now that you have done all the activities in this module, re-draw the graph you completed at the start of this module.

The difference between your two lines is what you have learnt! Well done!

For fun, here is space for you to write the words of your own song. If you are satisfied, ask a friend who can write music to put your words to music. You never know – you could be famous one day!