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Fine Arts Academy


 * Writing
 * Art Education
 * Art Business
 * Graphic Design
 * Music Education
 * Music performance and industry

What is a capstone? How can a capstone project apply to writing, art and music?
The capstone is an independent learning project which synthesizes learning from the electives in a career pathway and demonstrates command of core 21st century skills in a real world context.Students pick a theme and then do a capstone project around that theme. The themes are common to the electives in a pathway.

__**Music Education:**__ See discussion for detail
I. Create a semester long teaching unit for a grade level of your choice which includes the fundamental concepts of; reading and notating music, creating and composing, performing and evaluating as well as connections to other academic subjects.

II. Research, study, and explore a minimum of four major works of Western Art Music (not rock or jazz) by a particular composer from one of the major compositional periods (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century)that wrote for your instrument.

**__Music Business:__** See discussion for detail
I. Create a business model for a new music related company.

II. Create a marketing and distribution plan for an actual local band.

**__Music Technology:__** See discussion for detail
I. Using research from your core academic subjects and correlated with your musical knowledge create a multi-media based technology project that could be used to learn about a style/genre, instrumental ensemble, and/or historic /compositional period of music.

II. Design the ideal music technology schematic for an area in the Weymouth Public Schools.

III. Demonstrate your knowledge of sound reinforcement in a variety of venues.

__**Novel **__ Write a short novel in which characters are faced with a conflict involving a significant topical issue. Research the current culture and customs inherent in the lives of the characters involved. Use that research as a tool for developing realistic, dynamic characters and settings.

Using a research method similar to that in the novel suggestion, write a set of short stories connected by one of the following categories: · a common theme · a community · a time period · a family · an event
 * __Short fiction __**

__**Nonfiction **__ Write a set of memoirs.

__**Poetry **__ Write a long, dynamic poem—or set of poems—, such as The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot or Cantos by Ezra Pound.

__**Collaboration **__ Work side by side with an artist to create an illustrated children’s book or graphic novel.


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Graphics** - Develop a literary magazine for the Fine Arts academy where writings, pictures, art and music updates would be highlighted. Think Rolling Stone magazine with a twist. Students would be responsible for orchestrating the format, design, and deadlines as a real magazine is made. Editors, art directores, writers, illustrators, cartoonists, etc. The product would reflect all this in a creative Art/music magazine written with students from the journalism track.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students would be responsible for creating lesson plans and curriculum around the state frameworks for an after school art/music class. Students would design these projects around different grade levels and skill sets. The final project would reflect an after school program for students by students.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fine Arts - Education **