Art & Music

For the next subject, Harry and Richard bought art supplies for art class. The first assignment was to make an all-about-me page with their own drawings. Polly had made pebbles as her border art and as her favorite thing in nature and her name was part of her brand name. Lev was impressed with Polly’s drawings in the assignment and got extra credit for it.

“Very creative Polly, he said to her. “Best designs I’ve ever seen!”

The other laughed. “Seriously? They're just rocks, what’s so special about those?”

“That’s what she desires,” Lev said.

“There’s a meaning to those pebbles too,” Polly said to himself.

“Anyway, you’ll have 10 more minutes to finish up your assignment,” Lev said. “Don’t worry about it not being perfect. As long as y’all tried and put effort into it, it would be an easy hundred.”

This made Alex get lazy and decided to make random scribbles and didn’t bother to color in the shapes.

When the time was reached, Lev graded everyone’s work.

Polly: 100 (Very creative); Jamison 100; Cody 100; Alex 45 (What is this?)

Everyone except Alex was once again proud of their grades and was glad that their work had paid off.

They then had a huge project that would be considered an exam. They had to complete as a team a giant poster of her entire squad of Piper’s without any references. Alex was told that if he didn’t participate, he would cause everyone to fail, so he wrote everyone’s names and made a draft of the picture. Once complete, he outlined the art on the poster, and the rest of the group painted it. It took about five hours to paint the entire thing, and Lev would let it dry overnight so the group could get a grade for it the next day.

When it was the next morning, Lev had given everyone a perfect score and it covered up Alex’s bad grade from the first assignment. Lev then sent the poster to Piper and she posted it on her stories to show her creativity.

The next subject is music and Lev had the instruments ready for the group to practice with. First, they practiced using flutes with many songs that start from 4 to 4 beats, to 3 to 4 beats, 2 to 4, 6 to 4, and 8 to 4 beats. Jamison had rethought the music to the ones that were struggling with changing to the different music beats. Alex had struggled the most and he was blowing the flute too hard which caused a distraction to others. Jamison tried to tell him that he didn’t have to blow so hard, but he didn’t stop and he was kicked out of the class.

After practicing with the flutes, they then practiced using pianos using the same songs. They did a better job with the pianos and didn’t need plenty of practice. Even Alex proved himself that he would try, and Lev let him back in. Everyone did so well, Lev had given them a piano test on an instrumental of one of his songs, ‘Hate Me Too’, and they did well after practicing only twice. Lev then asked if he could record them doing the instrumental of the song as a remix and for an exam grade. The group agreed and improved when they were being recorded  After that, he then had test listeners to confirm if it was okay for a remix, and there were no flaws, so Lev saved the instrumental for a remix.

It was then marked the end of summer school and the final would be made for the next day.