9.13 - Finding a Creeper or Keeper Song of Your Own

We started off today's class with a discussion of the homework for the weekend which is to find a love song that is worthy of the keeper/creeper discussion and to analyze the song as we do in class. For this assignment, everyone should turn in the following:

1 - Annotated lyrics for a keeper/creeper song we have not covered in class.
2 - Discussion (1 paragraph/half a page) analyzing tone and diction in the song to determine if the speaker is a keeper or creeper.

In class, we talked about how a possible "4" or "Exceeds" for this assignment would be writing and recording your own keeper or creeper song and then writing an analysis/explanation of how the song uses tone and diction to communicate whether the speaker is a keeper or creeper.

Helpful tips that came up in our discussion were:

Programs like Apple's Garage Band or the shareware program Audacity could be used to record a song.

People who would rather not sing, could write a song and then use background music and autotuning to produce the song electronically. The example of autotuning we looked at in class was one of the "Symphony of Science" songs/videos (which features some advanced electronic editing).

Responses can be submitted via Google Drive. In class, we talked about how songs can be annotated on Google Drive. I explained this process in class and made the following screencast so that anyone interested can check it out and do this.

Any work done on Google Drive should be shared with: caleb.collins.lhs@gmail.com

We then had our Creeper or Keeper game from the day which was with the song "Meg White" by Ray Lamontagne.

After everyone had a chance to individually annotate and evaluate the song, we looked at it together as a class and produced the following annotation:

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The overall opinion of the class (10 to 1) was that the speaker of the song was a keeper.

Homework:

Find a "Creeper or Keeper" song of your own, annotate it and analyze it looking at the speaker's tone and diction to determine whether or not s/he is a creeper or a keeper. Submit your annotations and analysis to Mr. Collins (share Google Drive documents with: caleb.collins.lhs@gmail.com)

          Anyone may seek to exceed the standard for this work by writing, recording, and analyzing their own song.

A sample song annotation for today's song is available here. See the screencast video above on how to annotate a song in Google Drive if you'd like to submit everything electronically (it's quite simple).

Continue to read in Night according to the class reading schedule.