12 Days of Christmas by laura marques

Driving Questions:

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 17:37:56 UTC

Programming with the basic logic of Python Programming (Subject: Computer Science)
Exploring the musicality of repetition and expression of poems through melodies
Exploring repetition & symbolism as a literary elements within Poetry

12 Days of Christmas!

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 17:40:40 UTC

Summary:

I am going to analyse the musical and poem components of this song

I am going to reproduce this song in Python

I am going to create my own version of the song with new lyrics, my voice, and using ICT tools to record it and edit it.

Programming Concepts Needed & Practice Exercises

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 17:42:25 UTC

Pentatonic Version: A Modern Take

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 17:53:54 UTC

This Performance, as many pieces by Pentatonics, breaks many barriers in classical interpretations. It provides an interesting take, but the vanguard musical arrangement takes away from the understanding of the text, instead of complementing it, which the more classical interpretations do very well.

Muppets Version

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 18:08:38 UTC

This classical version highlights the form of the text and adds expression to it

A very amusing version!

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 18:21:33 UTC

This version of the song is extremely good at using the musicality of the singers to convey emotion, of emphasising the text and making it shine with humour. It's great at making the poem alive, making great use of repetition and symbols as elements of poetic writting

!2 Days of Christmas Text

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 18:22:28 UTC

On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the third day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree.

Source

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/occasions/christmas/twelve-12-days-of-christmas-lyrics-meaning/

Final Video of My Version

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 18:38:07 UTC

Using my mobile phone to record the video and sound and Canva to compile it, I created this video with My Version of the 12 Days of Christmas. It is not a version filled with symbolism. It is a parody of typical things our teachers tell us, but it maintains its style of repetition and melody. One can clearly associate this sing to its original even without context, leaving it to be a great example of a parody to a poem/song

Parody Text

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 18:44:28 UTC

During one of our English Lessons, I analysed the repetition components of the poem and the syllabic structure of each phrase and came up with this parody that includes some of what teachers say when exasperated. I'm planning on creating a video with them. Not sure how to go about this!

12 Students Studying... nah!

12 Students Sleeping

11 Teachers Screaming

10 Bells a Ringing

9 Students Tardy

8 Periods Passing

7 Why's This Happening?

6 Please Stop Talking

5 Days til Break!

4 Filled-Up Lockers

3 More Referrals

2 Different Shoes and a Bunch of Teachers Going Crazy!

Python Programming

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 18:49:46 UTC

I found some sites that will help me learn how to programme in Python

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-logical-operators/

Python Code & Printscreens of 12 Days of Christmas!

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 19:08:15 UTC

#The Twelve Days of Christmas - 101Computing.net/the-twelve-days-of-christmas/

giftList = ["partridge in a pear tree","turtle doves","french hens","calling birds","gold rings","geese a laying","swans a swimming","maids a milking","ladies dancing","lords of leaping","pipers piping","drummers drumming"]

numberOfDays = len(giftList) # 12 days, 1 gift per day

for day in range(1,numberOfDays+1):

if day==1:

verse = "On the " + str(day) + "st"

elif day ==2:

verse = "On the " + str(day) + "nd"

else:

verse = "On the " + str(day) + "th"

verse = verse + " day of Christmas my true love sent to me"

for giftNumber in range(day-1,-1,-1): #Looping through the list of gifts, in reverse order

if giftNumber==0:

if day==1:

verse += " a " + giftList[giftNumber] + "."

else:

verse = verse[:-1] # remove the last comma

verse += " and a " + giftList[giftNumber] + "."

else:

verse += " " + str(giftNumber+1) + " " + giftList[giftNumber] + ","

print(verse +"\n")

Paired Programming

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 19:16:12 UTC

After I finished the coding of the 12 Days of Christmas, I programming it with student 2 and explained how to code it as we went along

Final Version of the Code with Recursion

lmlauramam — 2024-01-15 19:18:23 UTC

lyrics = ['A partridge in a pear tree','Two turtle doves, and','Three 
French hens','Four colly birds','Five Gold Rings','Six geese a- 
laying','Seven swans a-swimming','Eights maids a-milking','Nine ladies 
dancing','Ten lords a-leaping','Elven piper piping','Twelve drummers 
drumming']
days = ['first','second','third','fourth','fifth','Sixth','Seventh','Eighth','Nineth' 
,'Tenth','Eleventh','Twelveth']

def sing_day(n):

    # This line raises an IndexError when n == 12
    print("On the {} day of ...".format(days[n]))
    print("\n".join(lyrics[n::-1]))
    print()
    sing_day(n+1)  # Corecurse on the next day


def print_lyrics():
    try:
        sing_day(0)   # Start the song, and keep going as long as you can
    except IndexError:
        pass  # We got to sing_day(12), we can stop now.

print_lyrics()