2012-2013 C1 HW 19-27

Homework 2012-2013 C1HW#27

Using all the notes in your outline write a first draft of your research paper. Do not worry about making it five pages. It can be as long or short as it needs to be, as long as it contains all of the elements that you have provided in your outline. In class on Monday I would like you to print out a copy of your outline and your first draft of the research paper.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#26

For each of the three ideas that you've written in homework # 10 find three supporting statements or sources and organize them in terms of week, strong and strongest. Then put them in your outline.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#25

For tonight's homework you are to rewrite the body of your outline. I would like you to organize the A, B and C points in the following order; weak, strong and strongest. You may not need to rewrite everything because you can cut-and-paste or you can fold homework number 9 into this assignment. Tomorrow in computer lab we will expand upon this idea.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#24

Organize your 12 arguments like this.

1. Weakest argument

A. Weakest supporting argument

B. Stronger supporting argument

C. Strongest supporting argument

2. Stronger argument

A. Weakest supporting argument

B. Stronger supporting argument

C. Strongest supporting argument

3. Strongest argument

A. Weakest supporting argument

B. Stronger supporting argument

C. Strongest supporting argument

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#23

Find three arguments or statements that support your thesis statement in your paper. Rate your arguments in order of strength. Find three arguments that support each of these arguments and rate them in order of strength. You should have a total of 12 arguments.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#22

Write a one page introduction to your paper. 

Start by answering the question - Why did you choose this topic?

Then - What did you know about the topic before you started the research?

Then - What did you find out that you didn't know when you started?

And finally - What kind of paper are you going to write: Compare and contrast, analysis of problem, factual report or review?

Then put your thesis statement.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#21

Write a tentative outline for your research paper.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#20

Find 5 more sources for information you might use in your research paper.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#19

After reading the material you selected in HW#2 and you research paper notes, write your thesis statement. Your thesis statement can be in the form of a question or what you believe is the answer to that question. You do not need to have proof yet.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW #16-18

Homework #16
Answer the following question:
What are 3 reasons why music should be written down?

Homework #17
Answer the following questions about music notation:
1. What is a time signature?
2. What is tempo?
3. What is the point of bar lines?
4. How do you indicate a loop?

Homework #18

Answer the following questions about music notation:

1. What does a whole note look like?

2. What are the most common note values?

3. What does a dot after a note mean?

4. How do you indicate that a note carries over into the next bar?

Due Friday October 26 of Friday November 2 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com) 

Homework 2012-2013 C1 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following question:
What are 3 ways to find your way around the guitar without looking at the fingerboard?

Homework #14
Answer the following question:
What are 3 ways that playing the guitar is like playing the piano?

Homework #15

Answer the following question:

What are 3 ways that playing the guitar is different from playing the piano?

Due Friday October 19, 2012 or Friday October 26 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 HW#10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following question:
What are the 7 most important rules for piano fingering?

Homework #11

Answer the following question:

Why are the black notes sometimes called sharps and sometimes called flats?

Homework #12

Answer the following questions:

1. What is an inversion?

2. What are the first and second inversions?

3. If it hurts or you get a cramp while playing the piano what should you do?

4. Why is the key of C the most popular key for beginning piano players to play in?

Due Friday, October 5, 2012 or Friday, October 12 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C1 #7-9

Homework #7

1. Where is the C key located on the piano?
2. How should your arms be when playing the piano?
3. How should your fingers be when playing the piano?
4. What fingers do you use to play a root position chord?

Homework #8

1. How are the fingers numbered when playing the piano?
2. What does tempo mean?
3. What is a chord progression?
4. Name some techniques for getting around on the piano without looking at the keys.

Homework #9
1. What is it called when music is written down?
2. What are the names of the white notes on the piano keyboard?
3. What does it mean when notes are stacked on top of each other?
4. What is the phrase to help remember the lines on the treble staff?
5. What do the spaces on the treble staff spell?
6. How should your fingers be positioned when you play Ode to Joy in GB piano lesson 2?

Due Friday Oct 5, 2011 or Friday Oct 12, 2011 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C1 #4-6

Homework #4
Answer the following questions:
1. What notes are which strings tuned to in standard tuning on the guitar?
2. What notes are which strings tuned to in open D tuning?
3. What is the purpose of a capo?
4. In the song "Bubbly" what fret is the capo placed on?

Homework #5
Answer the following questions:
1. What notes are in an E power chord?
2. What is the shape of a power chord on the guitar?
3. What is palm muting?
4. What is cross picking?

Homework #6
Answer the following questions:
1. In a 12 bar blues how many bars does the first chord get?
2. How many bars does the second chord get?
3. In the key of C what are the 3 chords used in a 12 bar blues?
4. What chords get only 1 bar in a 12 bar blues?

Due Friday September 21st of Friday September 28 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C1 #1-3

Homework #1
List 5 questions about Pythagoras and his discoveries that you want to find the answers to.

Homework #2
Answer the following questions:
1. What were some of the activities of Pythagoras' followers?
2. What was one story about how he developed the scale?
3. How did he conduct his experiments on the harmonic series?
4. Besides his theorem and the scale what else did he study?

Homework #3
Answer the following questions:
1. What are the main parts of every guitar?
2. What is the number of the thickest string?
3. How many frets in an octave?
4. What is the order of operations for tuning the guitar?

Homework due by Friday September 14 or September 21 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)