Grade 5 and 6 Rock and Roll History Unit - Resources

Here is a list of acceptable resources for your rock history project. No one is allowed to copy and paste any information directly from a website. Any written work must be in your own words. If it is not, you will not receive a mark for your project and may have to do it again. A list of websites and books used must be provided with your final project.

Please use the computers appropriately. If you are caught watching any inappropriate videos you will lose the computer lab time for this project.

Vimeo - History of Rock: This is a great 15 minute video that gives you the history of rock in the form of a facebook feed. You can also use Vimeo to search for other videos and songs since youtube doesn't work on the school computers. Any inappropriate use of Vimeo will result in the loss of computer lab time for this project.

https://vimeo.com/158160346

Schmoop.com - History of Rock and Roll: Great overview website of rock history.

http://www.shmoop.com/history-of-rock/

RockMusicTimeline.com - If you are having trouble finding a band or song to work on or want to check if your band was around in the 1950's or 1960's you can use this website. Just click on the time period you want on the top of the page.

http://www.rockmusictimeline.com/

Wikipedia - The Origins of Rock and Roll: Long article but very useful as a place to start. Be very careful that you do not copy information directly from the website.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_rock_and_roll

For Fun:

Incredibox: Follow the directions and have fun.

http://www.incredibox.com/v3/

Chrome Music Lab: Try out as many activities as you like.

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments

Grad Song: American Authors - Best Day of My Life

Okay folks, we've finished our big shows for the Rock Band but we still have one song to work on. Here are the lyric and karaoke versions of Best Day of My Life for the singers to practice. I will have charts for all of the other players ready for you at the end of this week and Ms. Hardy will walk you through how to play them. After school practices are finished for the Rock Band but you will be practicing on either Monday or Wednesday at Big Recess.