History; Jazz Timeline

America’s Music

Jazz is considered America’s Music because it is the only true art form native to America (besides comic books). Make a time line at the beginning at the start of the 1900’s. For each decade (10 years) find a person, place, or thing that had a great influence on Jazz. End the timeline at the year 2000. Write something about that person for each decade, and why they are an influence on jazz. Use the following web sites to find the information you need to complete this project. At the bottom is the rubric you will be graded on.

Day

Assignment

Thursday

Begin your research by finding the influential people in Jazz that you will write about. You may divide the decades among the members of your group. Use the Following links to do your research.

Jazz Kids

The History of Jazz

Great Jazz Links

Once you find the influences, write a one or two sentence something about the influence.

There should not be more than ten influences. Again, you can divide the work between members of your group.

Friday

Put the time line together. Use a Poster Board and draw your Time line and place the influences on the time line.

Be creative with it, we will want to hang them up in the room when we are finished.

Here is the rubric that you will be assessed with.

Timeline : Jazz timeline



Teacher Name: Doug Dallmann


Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Dates	An accurate, complete date has been included for each event.	An accurate, complete date has been included for almost every event.	An accurate date has been included for almost every event.	Dates are inaccurate and/or missing for several events.
Content/Facts	Facts were accurate for all events reported on the timeline.	Facts were accurate for almost all events reported on the timeline.	Facts were accurate for most (~75%) of the events reported on the timeline.	Facts were often inaccurate for events reported on the timeline.
Graphics	All graphics are effective and balanced with text use.	All graphics are effective, but there appear to be too few or too many.	Some graphics are effective and their use is balanced with text use.	Several graphics are not effective.
Learning of Content	The student can accurately describe 75% (or more) of the events on the timeline without referring to it and can quickly determine which of two events occurred first.	The student can accurately describe 50% of the events on the timeline without referring to it and can quickly determine which of two events occurred first.	The student can describe any event on the timeline if allowed to refer to it and can determine which of two events occurred first.	The student cannot use the timeline effectively to describe events or to compare events.

Date Created: Apr 13, 2004 03:51 pm (CDT)

Students: Ignore the Following.

Core Content for Social Studies Assessment

SS-E-5.1.1

Accounts of historical events are influenced by the perceptions of people and passing of time.