Students will code a song in EarSketch that is a minimum of 20 seconds but less than 2 minutes. The songs must include at least one stem from Ciara or Common and use their code to say Thank-You in our Remix with Gratitude Challenge. Students will apply (1) their knowledge of functions such as fitMedia(), setEffect(), and makeBeat(), (2) their use of for-loops for repetition, and (3) their uploaded sounds to compose a song that expresses a thank you message. Students will also use comments to explain the purpose of their code. Comments are used by programmers to make notes on their code for themselves or other programmers to read later. Students may notice when they open a new script that the first line has a pound/hashtag symbol (#) at the start and are grayed out. The computer does not execute a line of code with a pound sign in front of it. Another coding skill that students will practice this week is the use of variables. A variable creates a space in the computer’s memory to store data. Variables are used in EarSketch to hold values. Variables give coders the opportunity to write more efficient code and to change your code easily. We hope your student use their creativity and code a song that expresses their gratitude through code.