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VI Critical Analysis of The Beatles

Objectives

1. The students should be able to write a critical analysis about one of The Beatles' songs, lyrics, albums, or album cover art work.

2. The students should be able to save the critical analysis as a .html file and put it up on a Web page.

In this section you will have the opportunity to write a critical analysis about any of The Beatles' songs, albums, or art work related to The Beatles. When writing your analysis be sure to support the statements you make. If you do not like somethng by sure to explain why you do not like it.

VI Critical Analysis of The Beatles

Please click on the Yellow Submarine to see the rubric for the assignment
Self-correct your work before you submit the assignment

http://www.geocities.com/cghiaf/unit10assignment1rubric.html

FLASHBACK Please use one of the resources below if you need to flashback and revisit the rules on how to write a critique.
Critiques: This site is brought to you by The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
It contains a checklist of questions that the writer should ask him/her self during the writing process of a critique.
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/critique.html
You may also find these sites helpful even though they are not specific to an analysis.
Tips for Writing College Papers: This site includes a short section on argument/organization tips while writing a paper.
http://www.hup.ucla.edu/up/CT/writing_.htm

Guide to Writing a Basic Essay This is a great site if you need to flashback and reflect on your English writing skills. This page includes a wonderful listing of other useful Writing Sites. http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/

The Five Paragraph Essay If you want to learn how to write a short, consise essay with all of the essential elements, this is the place.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/

Alan W. Pollack's "Notes On" Series: The most respected scholarly dissertations on the Beatles' music - 141 songs, to be exact. Your starting point. http://rmb.simplenet.com/public/files/awp/awp.html	A Beatles' Odyssey: Notes on Alan Pollack himself and his mission to dissect the Beatle's songs. An excellent essay that does much analysis of its own. From Soundscapes. http://www.icce.rug.nl/%7Esoundscapes/VOLUME01/ A%5FBeatles%5FOdyssey.html
Rock Lyrics As Poetry: "Blackbird" and "Eleanor Rigby" and analysis of their Deeper Meaning. From M. Jordan. http://www.entrypoints.com/RockLyrics/Blackbird.html	The Beatles Study Site: Beatles as influenced by Lord Buckley, The Magus, and The Tarot, among other things. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/8450/index.html
The Hey Jude Theory: Is "Jude" John or Julian? Neither? An interactive discussion from Stephanie Hoerner. http://www.muohio.edu/%7Ehoernese/jude%2Dtheory.html	The Beatles Are The Masters Of The Universe: Very insightful study of a dozen Beatles classics from The Freaky Times! http://members.aol.com/albfreaky/music/beatles.html The ten greatest Beatle songs

Assignment #1 Select ANY (Your Choice)Beatle song, lyric, album, or album cover, and write a three to five page paper that critically analyzes the work.

Assignment #2 (Sorry, only one choice)After you have completed your critical analysis paper and it has been graded and corrected, make all necessary changes. Then go to your Web site editor and cut and paste your Word Processed document into a new page and add it to your free Homestead site.

Assignment #3 (Sorry, only one choice) Students are to complete a form for each of their classmates Web
site in order to evaluate the site. Go to the Web site and complete the form. When you are finished, go to file and then select send page. Fill in the instrutor's E-mail address [email protected] and click on send. This will send the form directly to me for this assignment. http://www.open.k12.or.us/jitt/evalform.html

Assignment #4: (Sorry, only one choice)Students are to write a grammatically correct paper detailing all they
have learned in this class.

Assignment #5: (Sorry, only one choice)Students are to complete a form to evaluate the entire course: The
Beatles: Across the Curriculum. Complete the evaluation form that can be found at the
following URL. http://www.geocities.com/cghiaf/formeval.html

FLASHBACK

Please click here if you need to flashback and revisit the rules on how to cite an electronic reference.
The Writing Center: Documenting Sources MLA This is a useful handout describing the proper was to cite resources using the MLA Style guidelines
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/docsources.html

Beyond the MLA Style Handbook: Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet: This site will provide you with information concerning how to cite an E-mail, Web Site, FTP, Gopher, Usenet, or Mailing list and more, according to the MLA Style guidelines.
http://falcon.eku.edu/honors/beyond-mla/

Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association : This site will provide you with information concerning how to cite resources according the the APA Style guidelines.
http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html

The Beatles: Across the Curriculum
is maintained by:
Mary Ann Fornataro

This Web site contains course work and links to various Beatle sites. Please e-mail your comments or suggestions.

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