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 * Goal || Students will demonstrate an understanding of the common themes of The Romantic Period and how the themes relate to the history of that Time Period. The students will show their understanding by recognizing themes and literary devices in contemporary music and comparing these to literature from The Romantic Period by creating an iMovie presentation. ||
 * Role || An unemployed musical director of films looking for work. ||
 * Audience || The director of the film. ||
 * Setting || A film adaptation is being made of a text from The Romantic Period. You've been chosen to create the soundtrack by either picking songs which have already been written or by finding a musician/band who you feel would write the perfect song for the film. If the director does not like your choice, you will be fired! ||
 * Presentation || The student must create a short movie (using imovie or window movie maker) showing why they made their choice to "sell" their idea to the film director. They will have a chance to verbally explain their musical choice to the director prior to showing the movie or after showing the movie (whichever they feel would help them to explain their movie best). ||
 * Standards || Content, attractiveness, originality/creativity, credits, planning, images and/or video. Posture and eye contact, listens to other presentations, enthusiasm, preparedness, evaluates peers, and content justification. ||

=Introduction= It seems that almost every year a movie comes to theaters that has been based off of a book. A lot of movies now tend to use soundtracks created with various songs rather than music scores (music written specifically for the film, think "Star Wars"). When movies are created from books and the decision is made to use a soundtrack using a bunch of songs, how does the director decide which song is appropriate? Do they look at themes and literary elements?

=Task= A film adaptation is being made of a text from The Romantic Period. You and your partner as musical directors and have been chosen to create the soundtrack from this film. To do this, you and your partner can use a song that has already been written or find a musician/band who you feel would make a great song for this song. Remember, songs that are used for soundtracks generally have the same themes, ideals, literary structuring, and tone as the scene that they are played during. To show your idea to the director, you will create a movie representing the similarities (in terms of writing, themes, and ideals) between a text from The Romantic Period (which you and your partner can choose yourselves) and the chosen song or musical artist. You can create a movie that involves moving text and/or pictures, a music video, etc. Be creative! Convince the director that your choice is perfect.

=Conclusion= Music today has common themes among the genres and also uses the same literary devices that authors have for centuries. By creating a soundtrack for a piece of literature from The Romantic Period, you have proven that you understand what a theme is, what the common themes of The Romantic Period were, and how to recognize themes in contemporary art.