John Brown Project - Rap, essay or PowerPoint
In this project you have a choice:
Backing Tracks for Rap
Hip Hop Fm - Bbm
Payback
D-Minor
Bells of War
In this project you have a choice:
- Working with 1 or 2 partners create a John Brown rap with three verses and a chorus. You must perform the rap in class. Create your own, recorded music to play along with your song.
- You may also do a poem about John Brown that will be read in class – 4 verses of at least 4 lines. Poems are solo assignments.
- Create a PowerPoint presentation analyzing the response to Brown’s raid using documents – A-F. You will need six slides.
- You may also do a rap or poem about Dred Scott or the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The same requirements apply.
- Write a 5 paragraph argumentative essay – question: “Should Torrington have a memorial/statue commemorating John Brown?” You will have 2 arguments and a counterclaim that you refute.
Backing Tracks for Rap
Hip Hop Fm - Bbm
Payback
D-Minor
Bells of War