Music/Performance Reflections

Learning Target(s):

  • Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to guide inquiry, extend thinking, and comprehend texts
  • Analyze the diversity within and across First Peoples societies as represented in texts
  • Express and support an opinion with evidence

Choose one of the performers from this unit, or another Indigenous performer of your choice.

Review the common themes and literary devices discussed earlier in this unit.

Write a paragraph of no more than 300 words, where you introduce the artist and their performance, and identify the cultural relevance and cultural characteristics. Also, note any of the common themes and literary devices being used.

Answer the following questions: Does your chosen performer stay true to tradition or do they modernize or add their own spin on the performance? Why or Why not? What made the piece stand out to you, or what aspect made it powerful? 

Edit your work closely for errors and clarity.

This assignment will require that you use quotations as support and possibly outside research. Be sure to cite all sources of information using the MLA format

Submit your work as one document with the Works Cited page attached.

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