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Armistice Fair The purpose of the Armistice Fair is to provide students with a venue where the final projects of their work during the four week unit on WW1, violence and current events, will be on display in a public space and where their voices wil be heard. The Armistice Fair will be filled with engaging spoken-word performances, art exhibits, historical costumes and reenactments, poster displays, live musical examples, hot air balloon contest, websites about the war available on several desktop computers at stations around the fair, and delicious and historically relevant crepe and croissant sales to raise funds for class materials. Students in the "Music Appreciation" class will be performing Original and Not So Original WWI Music featuring your Delores Huerta Jazz Band and Show Choir at the Armistice Fair. They will be performing Garage Band presentations of old WW I songs reset to a modern a hip-hop style. Students have also learned about the Blues and have written their own original blues songs, which will be performed with the school jazz band. Jazz improvisation will feature members of the jazz band soloing on their instruments as well as members of the music appreciation class singing in the "skat" style. Skat is a type of spoken or sung improvisation mimicking jazz instrumentalists. This form of art was popularized by Ella Fitzgerald in the years following WWI. The school show choir will also perform a medley of WW I songs which have been researched by the Music Appreciation class. The "Art in its Contemporary Setting" class will perform rap and spoken word, curate an exhibit featuring propaganda art, as well as produce works of fine art for display at the Armistice Fair. A student curated exhibit, Post Card Art and Propaganda: voices of change speak out on violence, present and past, will reveal thorough student research and a critical look at how the format of post cards were, and still are, used as a tool for propaganda. Inspired by their research on imagery from WW1 and contemporary propaganda, current events, and the issues of violence that our community is currently facing, the students have written spoken word and rap commentaries on their findings that will be performed throughout the fair. We encourage parents, family and friends to "educate" themselves at the postcard exhibit so that the relevance of the students' performances are that much more poignant. Another student art exhibit, Student Insight: seeking to resolve the violence, will feature individual student art works; the culmination of individual student responses to the issues covered throughout the four week unit. The Social Science portion of the Armistice Fair will feature static and interactive displays, spoken word and song performances, and reenactments of historical and fictional events, all designed, written, and performed by the students. The displays will include propaganda posters for recruitment offices and war bonds, newspapers with headlines, cartoons, and editorials showing different views on the war, and websites about the war available on several desktop computers at stations around the fair. Students will present a poetry slam and spoken word performance, followed by several rap songs by solo artists and groups, who will be joined outside by a graffiti artist creating an anti-war mural. Reenactments will include a dramatic reading of a soldier's letter from the front, and the return letter from the soldier's mother back home. The reenactments will conclude with a mock newscast from the trenches of the Western Front as our embedded reporter and his intrepid camera crew interview soldiers and civilians in their search for the real story of the death of the Red Baron.
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