2. English 10 Unit 12: Music Section: Writing Designers: Le Thanh Trung LeThi Que Huong

3. Scott Joplin (1886 - 1917 ) Scott Joplin is a famous American musician, now, using these prompts below to make up the complete sentences about him

4. Ex: Scott/ born/ Texas/1886/,/poor/,but musician black family. Scott was born in Texas in 1886, into a poor but musical black family.

5. He / learn / play / music / when / very young. He learn to play music when he was very young.

6. Scott / learn / play / works / composers / Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart / as well as / compose / music. Scott learned to play the works of composers like Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart as well as to compose music.

7. He /quickly / become / famous He quickly became famous.

8. His tunes / be / wonderful mixture / classical European and African beats / which/ be/ known as Ragtime His tunes were wonderful mixture of classical European and African beats, which were known asRagtime.

9. All in all / he / write / 50 piano rags /, / and be/ called / King of Ragtime. All in all he wrote more than 50 piano rags and was called as the King of Ragtime.

10. Scott Joplin / die / 1917. Scott Joplin died in 1917.

11. Van Cao (1923 - 1995) Name: Van Cao Born: 15 – 11 – 1923 Place of birth : Nam Dinh Family: poor workers Start composing music: when very young First song: 1939, quickly become famous Tien Quan Ca (National Anthem): 1944 Artistic works: Songs, poems, paintings Died: 10 -7- 1995 Known as a very talented musician and highly appreciate by the Vietnamese people. Using these prompts above to write about the life story of Van Cao.