Blog 16: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?How could music education maximize child's brain development?2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)Children should be provided with muisc rich environment to have access to muisc lesson that helps develop his or her brain at a young age. 3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)School  should provide music lessons, or music appreciation class as mandatory classes for students. 4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.Sttudnts with access to music lessons have better gradesMore out going and creative Has better left and right brain developemt 5.  What printed source best supports your answer?Laurie. "the right brain, the left brain, and the musician." Laurie riley music." 23 Sep. 2012. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.6.  What other source supports your answer?HTML article Music education helps stimulate and maximize brain development in children

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I am planning on taking a muisc class at Cal Poly Pomona about music theory to get more experience on the music education. 2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
Homework assignments or projects from the class 3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
My Topic is music education, taking an actual music class will help me better on experience it myself, and fully understand the benefit and the process on how the class works.  

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) “I, Zi Xu, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 35 ho urs of work.”
  (b) The book basic keyboard theory level 5 helped me a lot on my Music theory exam, i  scored 92% on the test. Due to the police of the Music Teacher Association in California, the test materials are not allowed to be published. My muisc theory teacher he is a pianist at the Muisc school, also provides muisc theory lessons, he recommened the book for me, and helped me through the exam. Also, My mentor Mrs. Wang, she was also my violin teacher who helped me passed my performance exam, and the other pianist who teaches at the placed i mentored, she duet with me on the performance exam. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I have completed 35 hours on lessons to pass my Merit exam for my Level 5 violin certifitcate of Merit, this certificate shows you are a porfessosional performer, and alowes you to give privite muisc lessons. 
• INTERPRETIVE
  
• APPLIED
• this Exam helped me better understannd the concept of muisc education, the basic paart of it, and the certificated of Merit allows me to become a muisc teacher and to actually teach muisc myself, this way ill have a better understaning of the real life experience of muisc education.