Language+Arts

__C.D. Project__

For the C.D. project we had to make a soundtrack for the book //A Long Way Gone//. We had to choose one song and one part from the book that we thought best described the book. The song I chose was //Hurricane// by NeedtoBreathe, I chose this song because it related to me about what happened at the end of the book in //A Long Way Gone.// What had happened was Ishmael went to New York for an interview, he went there to talk about the war in Sierra Leone. He talked about his experience in it and how it changed his life, on his way back from New York he had mentioned in the book that "everything was beginning to look familiar" he was reliving the war again but it had moved to the city where he moved, and everything was being destroyed and innocent people was being killed. Which is why i chose the song i chose because the lyrics which state "In the fallout now, it's hard to feel like we can turn around. With the damage done, It's hard to see how far we've come.We could not be proud of where our feet have walked along the ground in the silence now we play it back and forwards again" that's the quote that I chose to relate the book and the song together. We were put into groups with people who sort of had the same genre as you. The people in my group did not have the same genre as me but all of our songs went well together for our CD. This project consisted of a lot of collaboration because there are different personalities especially for song choosing. which sometimes made it harder to figure out what order or how we were going to pull it off. this project also consisted of creativity, we had to make our title and our CD cover creative, the CD title was called //Emerge// we chose this because of the songs that were going on the CD. here's what the C.D. cover looked like.