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- 6th - 12th
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Students compose lyrics to songs for a music festival to promote issues in their community. They write artists' statements explaining the issues they chose to write about. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students use lyrics from the 1815 song, Hunters of Kentucky, to examine personalities and events surrounding the Battle of New Orleans. Student products include completion of Lyric as History analysis questions and creation of a graphic organizer. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss Public Enemy's lyrics and compare and contrast them with songs popular during the Civil Rights Movement. They write their own rap song that expresses feelings of oppression or freedom from oppression. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine meter, rhythmic patterns, rhyme scheme, and iambic pentameter. They watch video clips, read and discuss various Dr. Seuss books, identify the rhyming words and patterns, read and listen to song lyrics, and write song lyrics. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students read fables and draw conclusions about what they read, supporting those conclusions with textual evidence. They write lyrics and fables creating their own inferred meanings. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students examine the role music plays in influencing ideas and behaviors. They read and analyze lyrics of current songs that contain suggestions of alcohol, tobacco, or other drug use, participate in a class discussion about the banning of lyrics that promote drug use, and identify ways to counter the effects of lyrics that condone tobacco, alcohol, and drug use. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students are introduced to a brief history of the blues, sing and listen to the blues, then create original blues lyrics. This lesson was designed for students in grades 4-6. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 12th - Higher Ed
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Students explore the Ottoman style of poetry. They view a video, Suleyman the Magnificent, and view maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean Sea. They research the Ottoman Empire and keep a journal. They read various Ottoman poems and identify themes and images. Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students in a beginning to intermediate foreign language/ESL classroom complete a variety of activities involving music and lyrics that are designed to enhance their listening and vocabulary skills. They practice grammar and making inferences using specific song lyrics. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students examine folk songs with an emphasis on their lyrics. Individually, they write their own lyrics to a song on a subject they are familiar with. Using "This Land is Our Land", they discuss how only the first two verses are known. They also research folk singers who supported the Communist party in the 1950s. Full Review »
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