Music and me: Visual representations of lyrics to popular music

Computer Technology Skills (2005)

Grade 9–12

• Goal 2: The learner will demonstrate knowledge and skills in the use of computer and other technologies.
  • Objective 2.01: Practice and refine knowledge and skills in keyboarding/word processing/desktop publishing, spreadsheets, databases, multimedia, and telecommunications in preparing classroom assignments and projects.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 9

• Goal 1: The learner will express reflections and reactions to print and non-print text and personal experiences.
  • Objective 1.02: Respond reflectively (individually and in groups) to a variety of expressive texts (e.g., memoirs, vignettes, narratives, diaries, monologues, personal responses) in a way that offers an audience:
    • an understanding of the student's personal reaction to the text.
    • a sense of how the reaction results from a careful consideration of the text.
    • an awareness of how personal and cultural influences affect the response.
  • Objective 1.03: Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print expressive texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
    • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
    • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
    • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
    • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
    • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
    • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
    • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
    • making connections between works, self and related topics.
    • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
    • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
    • identifying and analyzing elements of expressive environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.

Grade 10

• Goal 1: The learner will react to and reflect upon print and non-print text and personal experiences by examining situations from both subjective and objective perspectives.
  • Objective 1.02: Respond reflectively (through small group discussion, class discussion, journal entry, essay, letter, dialogue) to written and visual texts by:
    • relating personal knowledge to textual information or class discussion.
    • showing an awareness of one's own culture as well as the cultures of others.
    • exhibiting an awareness of culture in which text is set or in which text was written.
    • explaining how culture affects personal responses.
    • demonstrating an understanding of media's impact on personal responses and cultural analyses.
  • Objective 1.03: Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print expressive texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
    • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
    • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
    • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
    • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
    • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
    • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
    • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
    • making connections between works, self and related topics.
    • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
    • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
    • identifying and analyzing elements of expressive environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.

Grade 11

• Goal 1: The learner will demonstrate increasing insight and reflection to print and non-print text through personal expression.
  • Objective 1.02: Reflect and respond expressively to texts so that the audience will:
    - discover multiple perspectives.
    - investigate connections between life and literature.
    - explore how the student's life experiences influence his or her response to the selection.
    - recognize how the responses of others may be different.
    - articulate insightful connections between life and literature.
    -consider cultural or historical significance.

Music Education (2001)

Grade 9–12 — General Music/All Other High School Electives

• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.03: Evaluate musical ideas and information to make informed decisions as a consumer of music.

Grade 9–12 — Instrumental Music I

• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.03: Evaluate musical ideas and information to make informed decisions as a consumer of music.

Grade 9–12 — Instrumental Music II

• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.03: Evaluate musical ideas and information to make informed decisions as a consumer of music.
  • Objective 7.05: Explain how interacting musical elements impact one's aesthetic or feelingful response to music.

Grade 9–12 — Instrumental Music III

• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.05: Evaluate a given musical work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means it uses to evoke feelings and emotions.

Grade 9–12 — Instrumental Music IV

• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.04: Evaluate a given musical work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical devices it used to evoke feelings and emotions.

Grade 9–12 — Vocal Music I

• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.03: Evaluate musical ideas and information to make informed decisions as a consumer of music.
  • Objective 7.05: Describe the aesthetic nature of music and how perceptions of interacting musical elements affect one's feelingful responses to music.

Grade 9–12 — Vocal Music II

• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.03: Evaluate musical ideas and information to make informed decisions as a consumer of music.
  • Objective 7.05: Explain how interacting musical elements impact one's aesthetic or feelingful response to music.

Grade 9–12 — Vocal Music III

• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.05: Evaluate a given musical work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain musical devices it used to evoke feelings and emotions.

Grade 9–12 — Vocal Music IV

• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.04: Evaluate a given musical work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical devices it used to evoke feelings and emotions.