Once students have written and drafted their essays they will research the internet in order to discover how the topics they have already written about affect the contemporary world they live in.

Standard 3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics). Standard 4. Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes. Standard 5. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes. Standard 6. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and non print texts. Standard 7. Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and non print texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience. Standard 9. Students develop an understanding of and respect for diversity in language use, patterns, and dialects across cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions, and social roles. Standard 11. Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities. Standard 12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).

Students must be able to read and write, have basic computer user skills.

*Research Criteria- All researched must be sited and be consistent and pertaining to the chosen topic.

2- Students use the internet to research the following: Use the internet as the main research tool in order to discover the significance of music in different cultures. How does music help define a culture? How does music help different cultures socially, historically and spiritually. Download images, text files and sound files that exemplify your discovery. You must do this for at least three cultures. Using the same three cultures you chose for the music research, examine how these cultures are stratified between classes. Discover how the social division has affected the cultures politically, historically and socially. Have the lower classes ever attempted to revolt against the upper ones? Why do you think this division exists?. Download images, text files and sound files that exemplify your discovery