East Greenwich School District

Music Department

Rap Project
Goals:
1. Students will communicate their opinions and ideas about a certain theme
or topic in performance for the class.
2. Students will have the opportunity to perform their rap for the class.

Directions:
A rap is poetry spoken in rhythm. They have a beat and a lot of rhyming.
Students are evaluated on the following elements of a rap: strong delivery,
persuasive elements, rap/musical creativity, and content.

Choose a topic and learn as much as you can about it. You have to know enough
about your topic to rap about it. You can choose school, friends, and family, but it MUST
always be in a positive and school appropriate topics. Common topics include school,
friends, family, hobbies, pets, etc.

Create a rap with three to four verses (depending on how many members are in
your group) with repeating choruses. Each verse should have fours lines to it that rhyme
in couplets. Couplets are made up of two lines that rhyme with each other.
Example:
I like basketball. I think its neat
It makes me want to walk to a different beat.
Dribble the ball down the court.
I think I am playing the right sport.

Every member of your group will perform one verse by themselves while
everyone will perform the chorus together. Should you add dance moves is up to you,
and might increase your creativity score.
This project will last three weeks (including today). Here is how the schedule will
go:
Week One: Review criteria, form groups, begin coming up with well known topics
and write the chorus of your raps.
Week Two: Finish writing the song, write a final copy for the teacher, practice in
preparation for performance.
Week Three: Performance
 Rap Project Rubric

Not Meeting Working Masters the Score:

Standards toward the Standards
(0-3 points) Standards (8-10 points)
(4-7 points)

Content It was hard to tell Stays on topic Stays on topic all _________
- Wh what the topic was some or most of of the time.
o about. Does not the time. Shows Shows a full
- Wh seem to understand some understanding of
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Persuasive Students unable to Students were Students able to _________

Elements use the elements to able to develop use all of the
- Est write the rap. some or most of elements of
ablishing the elements to persuasive
facts write a rap. speech to write a
- Con rap.
vincing
argruments
- Foc
used
introduction
and
conclusion

Rap Creativity Students were Students were Students were _________

unable to write a rap able to write a rap able to write a rap
with creative use of with some creative with creative use
any rap/musical use of rap/musical of all four
elements. elements. rap/musical
elements.

Delivery Communicates Communicates Communicates _________

- Vol opinions orally with opinions orally opinion orally with
ume no effectiveness. with considerable a great deal of
- Ton effectiveness. effectiveness.
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Expressions
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Rap Form

Verse 1
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Chorus

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Verse 2
Performed by: _____________________________

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Chorus

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Verse 3
Performed by: ______________________________

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Chorus

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Verse 4:
Performed by: ______________________________

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Chorus

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