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Let's get ready to Read, Write and Rock n' Roll! This project is class based and takes a look at our society through the lens of music. Since the time of slavery in the United States, music has been used to communicate with one another and the outside world. Looking back at the decades of 1960, 1970, and 1980, each class will take a look at the social issues that were discussed in that era's music and how we, as a society, have made changes to improve upon an ill that was considered a problem or a moral challenge at that time.

Taking a look at the events, the people, the breakthroughs, and political climates of each decade will help frame this project. Music produced in that decade may reflect the feelings many had, and music was the safest way to talk about it. Each class will have the opportunity to create a Wiki page to present their decade's information. Then each student will create his/her own Wiki to present the social issue he/she has chosen as well as a song that "discusses" that social issue. Each student is asked to research his/her issue and how it existed in the assigned decade. An editorial about the issue as it existed in the decade as well as what is happening with the issue now will appear on each student's Wikispace.

Each student will then be responsible for presenting his/her issue and song via an iMovie. Within the time frame of the song, students will use images and statistics gathered during their research to make their final presentation palatable. Each student will need to create a "voice over" so those viewing the film understand why they iMovie was created. The song that was chosen as a representation of this issue will play along as the presentation is being given to their classmates.

Each class will be graded on the uniformity of their Wiki page (the decade). In addition to each student being graded on the organization and presentation of the information on his/her Wiki (criteria was assigned), he/she will be graded on the iMovie presentation that is made to the class.