Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical High School

Mrs. Bolender, Music

Project # 1

You will need to take out from the library, a biography or an autobiography about any music artist, band or composer.  This will count for a homework grade and part of your project grade.

This is a presentation project.  You will be the artist/musician/composer that you choose.  When you present, you will be the person you chose and answer any questions as if you are that person.

Book Logs:

You will need to turn in a book log for how far you are getting in the book!  Due Dates will be annouced.    You need a heading with your FULL NAME, Class Period, Date and Book Log Number.   Then you need to hand in how far you have read in the book, with notes on each chapter you have read, (either in paragraph form or outline form.)  The book logs will also count in your homework grade.   

Rules for writing your speech

This is handed in before the actual presentation! 

You cannot present to the class until your speech is approved!!

1.     You must have a fabulous attention-getting 1st sentence. 

2.     Your speech must be 16-20 sentences long. 

(Meaningful sentences! Ex:  I was born in Altanta, Georgia on March 30, 1970, but my family moved to Miami when I was four years old.)

3.     Each sentence must be 2 lines of loose-leaf or typed.

4.     No more than 4 sentences can begin with ''I.''

5.     Write in the first person and never say who you are. 

6.     All facts must follow the person's life in chronological order after the first sentence. 

7.     The last thing you say is "Who am I?" (This is not one of your twenty sentences!)

8.     Go out to the margin for each sentence and number from 1-20. 

9.     If you break any rule you loose 2 points each on this project.