7th Grade Hip-Hop Project

Last week the 7th grade began a month-long exploration of Hip Hop music, with the goal of creating their own songs. This unit is designed in collaboration with the Core unit on poetry. Students will have the opportunity to take the poetry they write in Writing Workshop and add a hip hop soundtrack to it to create their own original composition.

Classes will focus on the four ingredients of a hip hop song:
•    Beats
•    Loops
•    Sampling
•    Finally, the Lyric.

Using the computer cart laptops, students will have the opportunity to create each of these ingredients, saving their work on the server to refer back to the next class.

Most lesson plans will follow this scheme: A mini lesson, to introduce the new concept, followed by time with the computers (working in pairs) then re-assemble to share the work-in-progress, then put away.

Stay tuned!