English musical groups

the subject of group work. I could see both it’s highlights and weaknesses, with past ones leaning towards the latter. Most of this group work had occurred pre-high school education and was usually very polarized towards one individual's personal work ethic. If one or two individuals failed to do their part, the project itself would progress at a normal rate and the timeline for completion would be more compact than the preferred alternative. Highschool itself included very few group projects…

Throughout the project, our group worked very well together. The groups were chosen randomly, which gave me the opportunity to work with some people in our class that I had not worked with and would probably not worked with them if it was not for this project. On the first brainstorming day when we were grouped together, we started out the meeting with general discussion about the topics that interested us most. I took the leadership role in the group discussion and lead the topics. I helped…

We would like to start by introducing our group which consists of Salome Fregoso, Roxanne Wagstaff, Andrea Lopez, Mehwish Kazi and Angel Mejia, we named our group the Avengers. For our first group assignment we were asked to pick a topic from the three provided on blackboard. We chose option one which is about theories. Our assignments were to interview three parents of children ages 12 months - 5 years and ask them to share some stories about their children and about themselves when they were a…

Throughout the last year, the Director has made a point to change many processes, for worse or for better. The majority of her effort has been focused on how the office functions as a group or “team.” Two influential factors on how our group functions is the fact that the entire team is female in gender and group decision making. There is a particular instance where the team was gathered and was expected to participate in a meeting about streamlining processes in consultative phone calls. This…

My team consisted of six members, we had no particular roles in the group as we decided that everyone should have equal input. Having to work in groups helped me make friends and enhance my communication skills. Working in teams taught me how not to be afraid to voice my opinion as it is normal if people do not share the same beliefs as me. Each team member was comfortable with each other. I have always been afraid of doing group work because of me being shy, but after this assessment I believe…

Last summer I partnered with another educator from my school to craft a multisession mini course for Math for America. The course met over a three month period and focussed on teaching educators from the Metro New York area about the symmetries of a sphere using an ancient japanese art form called Temari. I used our organization’s shared digital message board called the small world network to post and share an overview of our course in the spring course catalog and invited 15-20 teachers to sign…

A short teenage boy was standing in a hallway of a house by a door. It was covered in drawings, most of which looked like they were drawn by little kids. The boy admired the pictures and chuckled. “I..I don’t know about this, Ed….” the nervous male voice from behind the door said. “I mean….What if this doesn’t work?” The short male, now known to be Ed, smiled. “It’ll be fine, David. Come on, let me see you,” Ed said nonchalantly. David took a deep breath before opening the door, revealing…

*It is the end of Louis Riel’s first trial (1885 Northwest Rebellion)* *Sir John. A Macdonald see’s Metis outside of courtroom and walks up to them* You know, I’ve always imagined this day. *metis turn around and get his attention*. I always imagined the day that Riel would be in trial, and everyone who once thought he was a hero now see him differently. Because Riel isn’t the real hero. *pauses* you all think he’s done so much for you, look where he is now. *pause and sigh* I know you are…

Throughout the novel The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Kitty Baldry experiences trauma that is constantly controlled by characters who perpetrate patriarchal ideas. Since the death of her son Oliver, Kitty continues to return to his nursery, the symbolic space of this tragedy, in order to repress her trauma and attempt to find new purposes for the room since her husband Chris will not let her change it permanently. Chris’ cousin Jenny also functions as the narrator of the novel and she…

There are several differences between the texts of a motet and a madrigal; there are also a lot of similarities between them as well. A motet; in classical music, is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. For a Renaissance Motet, the text is very religious; while its expressive style is moderately conservative. The main purpose was for worship; whereas its performance practice was extremely sophisticated, well-practiced, preached to a higher calling,…