Extra-Credit Assignment: Listen to Classical Music+Do a Biography.

Extra-credit assignment


Do the following:
Go to one of the following sites and listen to at least 10 minutes of music by any ONE composer listed below...of course, I'd love you to tell me you listened to more than just that....:
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Here
Joseph Haydn:
Here
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Here
Gioachino Antonio Rossini:
Here


Or watch Beethoven's 9th Symphony in its entirety here:






Part I:
Then, print this paper off. With your parent/guardian sign that you listened to 10 minutes of one song by one of the composers below. Earn 10 (ten) extra credit points by turning this in. The points will count, however, only if all in-class/homework assignments are also completed.



Student’s Name

_____________________________________________


Parent’s Name


_____________________________________________



Part II:
THEN On the back, write a short biography of the composer (chose from one of the four above) with the following clearly stated:
When and where was the composer born?
What were his greatest works?
What were two of his character traits (i.e., for Beethoven, you might mention he was deaf...)?
What did you like best about his music?
Is writing a symphony a massive work, to you?
Could Britney Spears compose a symphony? (Remember, a composer like Beethoven had to create the music for up to seventy different members of the symphony orchestra and up to twenty different instruments...)

(To read some more about the numbers involved in writing a symphony go Here

Example of an inventor brief

John Fowler (1826-1864) was famous for his invention of the steam powered plough. In 1858 he won the prize from the Royal Agricultural Society of England (John Fowler and the A7 Traction Engine, http://www.gooch.org.uk/steam/history/fowler.htm) for his creation. In the Society’s explanation for why they gave him the prize, they wrote, "It is beyond question that Mr. Fowler’s machine is able to turn over the soil and in an efficient manner at a saving compared with horse labour; while in all cases it is left in a far more desirable condition and better adapted for all the purposes of husbandry..." Not only was Fowler’s steam powered plow able to turn as much earth as a horse, it was also useful for draining swamplands—the furrows it dug were deep enough to act as drainage ditches, making unusable land cultivable (Today in Science History, ).
The economic case for… …steam cultivation was given…by David Greig in September 1867:
All treading and compression of the soil and sub-soil associated with horse cultivation is…entirely avoided and the implement is driven at a much more rapid pace, throwing up the soil to a greater depth and in a loose state enabling it to derive full benefit from the influences of the atmosphere (History of Steam Plowing, http://www.steamploughclub.org.uk/history.htm)
When he died in 1864, he left an invention which eventually changed the way agriculture had been done for thousands of years. The horse was replaced by the machine.

Remember!
3-5 Sources cited.
As close to 200 words as possible.
Focuses on on topic (a social change on Day 1, and an inventor on Day 2)
Quotes/Citations used.
No grammatical errors.

Links to Industrial Revolution Project...

Find social movements and social changes here:

http://www.guhsd.net/mcdowell/wq/ir/links.htm

Find inventors here:

http://www.guhsd.net/mcdowell/wq/ir/inventions.htm
and here:
http://www.jennermuseum.com/sv/smallpox2.shtml