Student Name: __Maria Mckeen

Dunstan High School

Year 10 Social Studies

Did you know?!

A mini inquiry project

You are going to carry out an investigation into a topic of your choice. The purpose of this task is to develop skills
using the inquiry process. You will be marked on how well you investigate your topic.

You must:
● Complete all parts of this task
● Fill in the different template sheets (digital or hard copy) of the Inquiry process
● Develop an interesting and creative way of communicating information about your topic

You can use class and home time to complete this project.

This is a graphic of the general INQUIRY PROCESS. The questions may help you develop and carry out your
investigation.
PART ONE: The Topic
You need to choose a TOPIC OF YOUR CHOICE to research and inquire about. Write what it is below:

TOPIC: Song about human rights; Bob Dylan blowin’ in the wind

PART TWO: The Focus

To help you know what you want to inquire about, you need to develop THREE FOCUS QUESTIONS. These will
provide the structure of your inquiry. To help you with this, refer to the graphic above.

What information I hope to get:

My questions are:

What is the issue this song is about and how does it relate What is the song telling us through its lyrics and why
to human rights? it is about that issue.
1

Who was the artist who created this song? (About Bob Was Bob Dylan very influential? Did his songs have
Dylan) great meaning for people? Biography of Bob Dylan.
2

Did the genre of music influence the meaning of lyrics or Folk rock was known for activist/human rights
why they were written? related songs so did the genre have a great part to
3 play in what the song itself was about.

Part Three: Possible sources

You should think about where you COULD find information about your topic. Try and use a VARIETY OF and AT
LEAST 4 DIFFERENT sources of information. Start browsing different sources and when you find ones that you
think could be USEFUL, identify it with key details, below. This information is important for your BIBLIOGRAPHY
and REFERENCING.

Type of source: Source Reference: Usefulness:

Is it a website? Text book? Type in or copy and paste the URL address/title and Why might this source be useful for my inquiry?
Journal? Primary? Secondary? author/magazine name/DATE information published

Website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin%27_in_ The songs connection to human

the_Wind rights

Website https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-blowin-in-the- About the meaning of the lyrics

wind-lyrics
 Website https://www.songfacts.com/facts/bob- Insight into the lyrics
dylan/blowin-in-the-wind

Website https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org About the genre of folk rock.

Website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan About Bob Dylan and his life

Part Four: Collect, Select and Organise (gathering and processing)

Now you need to FIND THE ANSWERS to your questions using the sources of information you listed above. You
may want to print out the information and highlight or annotate it. Some sources may have information that
answers all of your questions - while some sources may only give relevant information for one of your questions.
Colour coding the questions and the information that relates to it, is one way to select and organise the
information you find.

To help select and organise this information, you could use the FOUR PAGE METHOD. (Organise all of the information
relevant to each specific question on one page. You can brainstorm, mindmap, bullet point, summarise notes)
The templates below are like ‘pages’. Fill in the spaces as needed:

FQ 1: Source reference

-This song touches on the problems of war, peace and freedom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin
-Does this by asking rhetorical questions of the listener e.g ‘How many %27_in_the_Wind
seas must a white dove sail, before she sleeps in the sand?’.
-Song written for the civil rights movement in the 60’s, which was about https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-
ending racial segregation in the Southern States of America. blowin-in-the-wind-lyrics
-Inspired by the African-American spiritual song ‘No more auction
block’; a slave song
-Racism has been a large problem for human rights and is still a
problem for us today.
-Touches on many different social injustices.

FQ 2: Source reference

-Born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_D

-American singer, song-writer, author, and visual artist ylan
-His most prominent music came from the 60’s;civil rights movement
-Born and raised in Minnesota (small town kid)
-Descended from Russian (paternally) and Turkish (maternally) heritage
-He started multiple bands throughout high school and in his yearbook
it stated-’Robert Zimmerman:to join Little Richard’ who is a well known
musician known for his raucous loud performances.
- Dylan has a hebrew name also, Shabtai Zissel, honouring his mother’s
family religion
-Dylan has 6 children and is now 78 years old.
 FQ 3: Source reference

-The genre that Bob Dylan mainly belonged to was folk rock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_r
-Folk rock has the characteristics of being acoustic sound and having ock
protestant/activist type lyrics normally about a political issue
-Dylan is well known for his deep and multiple interpretations of his
lyrics
-Bob Dylan was also greatly influenced by the blues, an african-
amercian style of music that lyrics spoke of hardships of slaves and
everyday life

Paste the source information below into a Bibliography. Use the links here to find out more about how to set your
bibliography out and what information is needed:

Bibliography

Bibliography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin%27_in_the_Wind
Author of site-Wikipedia a known trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Last edited on the 8th of October 2019
Specific web page titled-Blowin’ in the wind
https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-blowin-in-the-wind-lyrics
Published by-Genius lyrics
Genius lyrics is used by Spotify to supply the meaning of the songs. Spotify is one of the most widely used music
platforms.
Founded in 2009 specifically for annotating rap music but has since developed to include all manner of genres
of music.
Under the business name Genius Media Group Inc.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/bob-dylan/blowin-in-the-wind
Published by Songfacts LLC.
Author of this particular article was not mentioned on the site
Date of publish is not stated
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org
Published by New World Encyclopedia
Last modified 17th of April 2017
Powered by MediaWiki
Writer of the article not mentioned
References of the article include: Stephen Matteo. Dylan:The life and Music of America’s Folk-Rock icon.
MetroBooks, 1998
 Britta Sweeers. Electric folk:The changing face of English traditional music. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Richie Underberger. Eight miles high:Folk-Rocks flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock. San Francisco;
Backbeat books 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
Date of publish; unknown
Last modified on 14th October 2019
Published by Wikipeadia a registered trademark of Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

Part Five: COMMUNICATE your findings

You need to come up with a way of communicating the information you have gathered.

How will you share the answers to your questions?

You can write a report, create a flow chart, make a google slide presentation, develop a poster - you choose. Be
creative, informative and interesting. Take care with spelling, grammar and accuracy of information. Consider
layout, aesthetics and visual appeal.

Published on Social Studies weebly site

Part Six: EVALUATE
Whenever you do an inquiry you should look back and reflect on the quality of your research. Fill in the table
below:

What are the strengths of this inquiry? What are you proud of? What areas do you think you could have done more with?

I am proud of the extent of research that I did for the I could have added a more diverse range of images
inquiry as well as the audio files I put on my weebly and other visual representations as evidence to justify
site. what I was saying with my words.
I am most proud of the effort that went into my
inquiry and my presentation work most of all.

What source did you like using best? Why? Which source was least useful or helpful?
Source title: Bob Dylan Wikipedia page Source title: Genius lyrics

Source reference: Source reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-blowin-in-the-wind-
lyrics
I enjoyed using this site because of all the information it
contained, not just on Bob Dylan himself but of folk music and
many other aspects that made my inquiry process much easier. I didn’t enjoy using Genius lyrics because for all the
I was also able to fact check and reference to other web pages if I lyrics there were there was hardly any information
found the information to not be quite correct. provided to me about them. The information supplied
by Genius I could easily have just said myself.

What did you find challenging about doing this inquiry? What did you enjoy about this inquiry task?

I found that trying to find a variety of reference I enjoyed being able to learn about Bob Dylan and
sources very difficult because with the resources I had learn knew things I didn’t know there was to learn. I
only really had access to websites and though Dylan also enjoyed the presentation part of the inquiry
had many biographies written by and about him I because it made me consider so many different things
couldn't sources them without purchasing them. such as visual appearance and how to word
So I would say that ranging sources was my most information for myself.
difficult task in this inquiry It was a fun challenge and I hope I have done it some
credit.