Students will have opportunities to sample instrumentals from various families and to bring music from home for analysis in class. Student knowledge and skill development is assessed by tests and projects. Topics covered include revolutionary and civil war folk music, black spirituals, Dixieland, blues, swing, be bop, musicals, contemporary composers, and the rise of rock 'n' roll and popular mass media. Student knowledge and skill development assessed by tests and projects. I begins as a music theory course.
Students learn the basics of chord structure and orchestration.
CAD I or Introduction to Machine Woodworking. Students learn the use and function of a computer drafting program and accepted drafting techniques and conventions. Pre-Algebra or permission. This course is designed to enable students to investigate several areas of technology through the use of modular experimentation stations and computerized data gathering and production situations. Technology Education modules include computerized equipment and simulations in such areas as robotics, pneumatics, aerodynamics, electronic communications, construction technology and mechanisms.