About the Project

This is an interdisciplinary project involving music, English, history, and math classes. Scholars will download a school appropriate song of their choice with lyrics. They will make 5 cuts to the music creating a 2-minute clip, use a fade-in and fade-out, and use 5 different effects. In English class they will read a culturally relevant novel and write a reflective essay. Scholars will use the music software to remove the vocals from their track. They will produce a title and lyrics that represents the struggle of an ethnic group of their choosing and create a new title and song lyrics that represent that struggle. They will record their voice on the track. In history class, they will write a paper that outlines the struggle of the group they chose and compare it to another group that they have learned about in history class. Scholars will create a music video for their song. They will create a story board with at least 10 pictures, create a lyric sheet, synchronize their video clips to the audio track, add effects to the video, add subtitles to the video, and add a song name/artists to the beginning of the video. In their math class, they will have a graphical project involving how they synchronized their audio to their music video. A Video Release Party will take place at the end of the semester. Community members, district personnel, parents and our entire school will be invited.