Music History - The Romantic Period

In this lesson, students will write an essay about a specific topic in the Romantic Period.

First, students will gather information about the Romantic Period of music.

Then, they will select a specific topic in the Romantic Period such as the Early Romantic Era or Late Romantic Era.

After that, they will write an essay on the topic they chose.

The research and writing the essay will take longer than one hour. You can split the lesson into two class periods.

You can also have the students do their research at home and write the paper in class.

You can grade the students on their essay and the important facts about the topic they chose.

You can also grade them on the organization of their essay, sentence structure, paragraph structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.