Music Mentor Texts for the Senior Level
Being a hopeful music teacher for my profession, it is knowingly hard to find writing resources for the discipline. Writing is not a main component of music but I feel it is necessary in compositional writing. Expressing your music through words helps bring the piece you are creating to life as well as convey its message to listeners before they hear it. Writing as well helps with music journalism in which some students do find enjoying.
The link below is from a website of a Nevada teacher. The main idea of the lesson plans is to have the students listen to a song and read the songs lyrics. The activity is then to creatively write based on what the songs means to the student. Whether it's a poem or short story. For the purposes of a non-narrative lesson, one can change the parameters of the assignment by having the students write a review on what the song means. The students can as well listen to the dynamics of the piece and write how many musical terms they can identify within the song.
http://writingfix.com/ipod_prompts.htm
The second mentor text that I found was on how to write a concert review. The end goal of the assignment for this mentor text would be to go out and see a concert and write their own review. The writing style for this assignment idea would be to write a persuasive review that would be written for a major newspaper. This assignment can be changed to have a more personal point of view depending on the grade
https://twp.duke.edu/uploads/assets/concert.pdf
The end goal of this assignment would be to write an informative article about an album of the student's choosing. I have chosen informative instead of persuasive based on the students writing more of a blog style article. Although it would be beneficial for the student to pick an album that they were not familiar with, actually getting them to do that would be a difficult task. The importance of the assignment is to enforce writing styles from other classes into the music curriculum.
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/collections/castl_k12/ewojcicki/Writing%20Styles/musicreview.html
Hawthorne Resources
The student I am working with has chosen to write about 'A Midsummer Nights Dream.' Even though she is not going to see the play in person I found that this article on how to review a play can help as it has great step by step instructions with additional resources.
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I met with another student recently and I helped him figure out what was important in a scene summary. He was great at picking out what was important to a summary. The only advice I found he needed was to pick out situations that are essential to the plot, He then decided to write a character sketch of two different characters and then compare and contrast them to each other. This is a source that I thought would be helpful in determining what was important about a character so that a reader could decipher who the character was without reading the story.
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This as well is a great checklist on how to write a descriptive paragraph.
6 + 1 Writing Traits
This is the website that explains what the writing traits are and how to use it in your own classroom. I think this is a great resource for myself to use and I plan on showing my colleagues it as well.
6+1 Traits
I found this 6+1 rubric that I think will be useful to assessing my mentees and for my future career. It needs to be changed to accommodate our grading system but not by much. the 6 can be changed to an R/I.
Rubric
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