Wednesday January 30, 2008: Class Overview

Today in class we talked a lot about the Blues, Rock and Roll, and Racism. We had a homework assignment due on wednesday on a reading that was about how rock music was created. We also had to write a 2 page summary on the reading or an organized web graph. Using our homework we broke into 3 groups and were given a large piece of paper. Our task was we were given one of the 3 topics in our reading (Blues, Rock, Racism) and had to do a spider graph on our topic. After we finished we presented and discussed our posters. After that activity we changed groups and listened to 2 different songs. We had to take notes on these songs on a worksheet that was given out. The notes that we were suppose to be taking were on what emotions came from the lyrics and beat of the song. We also took notes on how the video looked like and the genre of the song. We ended class with handing in our homework and were given another assignment due for next class on Elvis Presley written by Peter Guralnick.

Welcome to the History of Rock & Roll

Monday, January 28:

Overview of the course-handout
Using the blog-in-class instruction
http://historyofrockroll.blogspot.com/
Using the wiki-building a classroom community
http://rockroll.wikispaces.com/
Creating your own blogs-what will you write about?
R&R Knowledge Quiz-using personal response system
What is Rock & Roll?-group brainstorm, in-class writing
Homework Assignment: Chapter 1-"The Blues, Rock-and-Roll, and Racism (handout); Write a 2 page typed response or create a concept map demonstrating what you have learned from the reading. Be prepared for classroom discussion. Add your favorites to the classroom wiki.