History of Rock: The 1950s
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1957: Buddy Holly: "That'll Be the Day That I Die"
1957: The Big Bopper: "Chantilly Lace"
Please note:
- To pass this unit of the course, you must accumulate a MINIMUM of 70 points (D-) from "C" Level Activities and score 70 or HIGHER on the Unit Test.
- To attain a grade of "C" or better, you must accumulate a MINIMUM of 77 points (C-) from "C" level activities AND score 77 or HIGHER on the Unit Test.
- To attain a grade of "B" or better, you must accumulate 70-84 points from the "C" level plus enough "B" level points to total at least 85 points (B-).
- To attain a grade of "A", you must first accumulate 85-92 points from "C" and "B" level activities, plus accumulate enough points from "A" activities to total 93 (A-) or higher AND score 93 or higher on the Unit Test.
- As you accumulate points, the following thresholds apply:
- You may NOT accumulate more than 84 points from "C" level activities.
- You may NOT accumulate a total of more than 92 points from "C" and "B" activities.
- You may NOT accumulate a total of more than 100 points from "C", "B" and "A" activities.
Section
1- “C” Level Activities
Accumulate 70 points minimum (84 points maximum) before moving
onto “B” level.
REQUIRED "C" LEVEL CLASSROOM ASSIGNMENTS:
REQUIRED "C" LEVEL CLASSROOM ASSIGNMENTS:
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| Bill Haley (right) and the Comets |
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ACTIVITY C2: Listen to the lecture and complete the guided notes. If you miss the lecture, print out the guided notes and use the internet to fill in the blanks or ask another student for help. If you sit in class and don't write anything down during the lecture, you will not get credit, as it will be obvious that someone else would be doing the work and thus you would be CHEATING! (Due 1/13/17)
ACTIVITY C3: Fill out an Artist Information Sheet (blanks can be found in the classroom or can be printed from this website) for one (maximum of two) of the following artists: (Due 1/27/17)
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Fats Domino
- Bill Haley
- Chuck Berry
- Hank Ballard
- Little Richard
ACTIVITY C3: Watch one of the following movies about 1950’s rock stars
and complete a Movie Biography worksheet:
- American Singer & Actor Elvis Presley - Biography and Life Story (47:51)
- The Little Richard Story (1:27:57)
- The Jerry Lee Lewis Story (55:10)
ACTIVITY C4: Listen to the following tracks from the 1950s and complete the 1950s Music Listening Worksheet. (Due 10/1/14)
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| Little Richard in 1967 |
Listening Tracks for the 1950s:
1938: Big Joe Turner: "Flip Flop and Fly"
1949: Fats Domino: "The Fat Man"
1950: B.B. King: "Lucille" at Sing Sing Prison on Thanksgiving Day
1952: Bill Haley and the Comets: "Rock Around the Clock"
1952: Lloyd Price: "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"
1955: Little Richard: "Tutti Frutti" from the 1956 Alan Freed film, "Don't Knock the Rock"
1955: Pat Boone's Cover of "Tutti Frutti"
1954: LaVern Baker: "Tweedle Dee"
1956: Chuck Berry: "Roll Over Beethoven"
1957: Jerry Lee Lewis: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
1957: The Big Bopper: "Chantilly Lace"
Elvis was recorded from the waste up because of his hip motion.
ReplyDeleteElvis changed the mind of others about music.
The Twist let everyone enjoy rock and roll even parents.
Kaylee Woodgeard
1. Chuck Berry was the first person to do the duck walk.
ReplyDelete2. Little Richards music helped break down racial boundaries.
3. The song hound dog by Elvis was not the original song. The original song was about a woman kicking out a gigilo.
Kaylee A.
Barbara Skaggs . 7th . 9-18-13
ReplyDelete1. i learned that elvis was not allowed to be shown from the waist down on tv because of his hip movement.
2. I learned that les paul invented the first guitar
3. I learned that elvis recorded with sun records.
This Video was very interesting to see and here peoples points from back then and the things they experianced when rock and roll took off
ReplyDeletealan freed being a disk jockey i learned what that actually was
listening to them talk about what happened and what they experienced at the time its really amazing
Before the video i new most of these rockers from the 50's but not till we covered the radio and culture which was in the video. like fats domino and little richard but i didnt know about the radio stations and disc jockey's who would play the music the i knew what was called rythem and blues
ReplyDeleteI found the video to be great in the way that they interpreted the artists. I enjoy a lot of different music, but I learned about artists I didnt even know. Jerry lee Lewis was a rockabilly who wrote many hit singles. a popular song Sh-Boom came out in 1954, this song I know plays in an older movie called Cry Baby.
ReplyDeleteGretchen Skaggs 7th 9-19-13
I learned that a lot of rock stars had more problems than i known about like drugs and alcohol abuse.I also learned about how rock and roll came to be. I learned what race music was and how it ended.
ReplyDeleteSamuel H. Saxour 7th 9-20-13
I learned about artist from the 1950's that I've never heard of before, like Jerry Lewis who was a rockabilly rock artist. I learned more about Elvis like how they thought his hip shaking was profound.I also learned how people talked about the artists back then, most people didn't like rock and roll and was against it but older generations hated it but the youth of then thought it was the best thing ever.
ReplyDeleteCourtney B.
1. The 'Frying Pan' was the first electric guitar
ReplyDelete2. Rock and Roll was originally called RnB
3. Disc Jockeys played a huge role in Rock and Roll becoming popular
Tim Moore