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8/20-22/2013

20-21 We started our lesson with listening to music, and what we needed to do was that we listen to the music and we predict what kind of image the composer was thinking about. we used book called ' can you hear it?' When we have listened to the first music, for me it seemed to be a very furious and vigorous movement, and the actual image that the composer was thinking was a bee flying around the flowers. The next one was very obvious for all. Because in the music there was only a classic guitar playing and a duet, and the sound of the duet was 'Meow Meow'. So we easily predicted that it is a cat doing a vicious movement. The third one for me seemed to be a war that gave no victory or glory, just ashes and gloomy felling. But what the composer was thinking was a very busy road way at Paris. There was cars honking and people all crunched up. The last one was for me like a wizard land or a fairy land. But waht the composer was thinking was a aquarium. I think both of us had a similar felling of 'mystery'.

22 We got a mission for Mr.Tompkins. It was to chose a picture and compose a music for it. I searched pictures about death. but when i saw soundation works really badly, i chose to just use garrage band rather than soundation. so i have chosen another picture and i chose 'the scream'. I have chosen this picture because i had a perfect sound track in my garrage band. The product was fairly good. Also we have made a movement that expresses the music. Our group made a show that one friend falls down and the other friend comes and fights with the fallen friend. Finally the teacher comes and stops them.

8/27- 29/2013

27 Today we had time to practice our movement of music expression. I thought our story wasn't so good, so i have got some help from Mr.Tompkins and made another story. I was very satisfied with the result. It was a friend stealing his friends ipad, then the ipad stolen friend goes to the principle and tells every thing. After the ipad stealer came in to the principle room with his mother. After he talked with the principle the ipad stolen friend comes in and forgives him. 28 Today we started to perform out show. I have seen Jake's groups show very interesting. Because the concept was very fresh. I was very surprised at the part that Jake have became a ghost. After the show we came to the ICT room and started to do this web site. Also Bradley's group made also a very impressive story. Because this group had not given us a clear ending and it was a new style i have seen. In this activity we have done some collaboration with our team mate and thought of the transferred classes with music.

29 we also came to the ICT room and continued to do this evaluation. Not much thing was interesting.

9/3-9/5 2013

3 we also came to the ICT room and continued to do this evaluation. Not much thing was interesting.

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Today we have practiced Dragonfly and popcorn. i was able to find patterns in both musical pieces. in the popcorn the pattern was to go all the way down and go back up and down up down. When i figured the pattern it was much easier to play and memorize the notes. Also in the dragon fly there was also a specific pattern. for my part it was down, up, big up jump, down and up. i think this class transfers with math. also i think we have done the collaboration because we have been playing this together. I think today was not good for all of us. because this was the first day to practice this music. if we practice this music for more time i think we can do it much better.

5 Today we practiced the popcorn. we started to learn some parts, we have learnt the basic rhythm and the syncopated part. i think in this class we have done collaboration and transfer. We have been playing together and we have used math as our transfer class. Because we had a pattern and math is also used at finding pattern.today it was much better than yesterday. today we was able to play the parts better. i think

9/10-9/12 2013

10 today we practiced popcorn. also we heard the original song of the popcorn, i could feel that it was a bit like a game song and it was a pretty long song. When i finished listening to the popcorn i we thought that we could have a drum. there were two things that we could do. one is to bring a drummer and the other one was to find a synthesized drum loop. i think a drum could be a good matching sound with xylophone popcorn. also i thought that doing a guitar solo was a good idea from yejin. i think if i can learn the solo part it could be pretty nice. but because i am not good at electric guitar, i think i will have a hard time playing the guitar solo. 11 today we continued to practice popcorn. today we have learnt more parts of popcorn. we learnt the glockenspiel part, alto xylophone and also we arranged the form. i think today we have collaborated while playing together and thought, because we have been arranging the form and we have been transferring almost all the class, because almost all the class collaborates with each other. finally we are almost at the finish point. i think we are at a good level of playing the parts that we have learnt, and actually we got a form.

12 today we have finally chosen a form and we need to make a coda. today we have done a really awesome job. today we have done almost all of the pieces of popcorn.i think today we can finish the piece. to day we have used collaboration and thinking. we have collaborated with each other because we have been playing this piece together. also we have been thinking because we have been thinking about the form and making the coda. i think next week i will get my guitar and play it.

9/17-9/ 18 2013

17 to day i have brought my guitar. i have played the chords Dm, C, Bb, F,C,Dm. i think playing this is a good part for the music piece. because i think i can do some solo parts and it could help the glockenspiels. to get their rhythm and to make the sound more better, and actually it worked well. i think the ATL used is the collaboration and thinking. we have collaborated because we have been playing with each other and for thinking we have been still thinking about the coda. i think next class we will probably finish popcorn. Also i think today all of the people was doing well. especially the glockenspiel had improved a lot. first they didn't even played. but they practiced and they could play it and they were very accurate. also the base has improved a lot. the base fist made a lot of mistake but now Michael could play it and make some of his own. also he could change the speed of his part.

18 today i had suffered a lot. the form was done and we made the coda and all the things seemed to be going well. but when it came to the yejin,me, Michael part i failed to do the solo part. because i had too less time to practice and it was a hard thing for me because i have been playing acoustic guitar but not electric guitar. so it was a challenge for me. I think that today we have done almost all of the music piece. i think my solo part will be better if i practice at home more. if i make this the higest level that i can i think the music will be much better. also i think the coda was a good idea, to go slower and finish it. i think today the overall progress was very good. because we actually finished the music.

9/24-9/26 2013

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i think we are at the last part of finishing the popcorn, i thought that it was done but the coda was a bit strange and too sudden. Also i think i need to change my solo part because i always makes mistake at the second solo part. so i think that i would make another solo part using stroke. i think if i make a new solo part i think the overall mood and the flow of the music will be better. Also today we came up to the ICT room and did some work. I think the ATL that we have used is collaboration and thinking. Because doing a musical piece with each other is collaborating with others and we used thinking at arranging how to start and finish the coda.

25 today we have practiced popcorn a bit and started to do our assessment. we have gathered in another group and finished the roll play,. my team have made a story that one person dies because of his friend. the friend kills his friend because of money. than the berst friend was sleeping at the bench and he sees the his best friend dying then tommorrow he goes to his best friends funeral and sees the muder( which is his friend) and catches him. Because the guy that captured the muder is a police so he goes with the police