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Report Cards 2nd trimester

 This trimester 4th and 5th graders wrote a composition and chose a focus for their project: arranging, writing, or singing.

Arrangers focused on taking their composition, recording it into GarageBand and making a LiveLoop background.

Writers focused on writing the melodies of their pieces on a staff. They also added a Liveloop background if they had time.

Singers focused on learning to sing their composition and added a Liveloop background if they had time.


Students used the rubric below to assess themselves after the project. I used these rubrics as well but also factored in how much assistance and adjustments I made to the assignment for them to be successful. If after looking at these rubrics you have any questions please write me at akaria@op97.org. You only need to look at the rubric that matches what your child focused on (I put it in their report card comments).






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