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Songs Lesson Plans
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Students examine the relationship between real events and popular culture. They analyze the parts of a patriotic song and its impact on a society. They write their own song to end the lesson.
Students view and discuss The 25 Greatest Protest Songs video as compiled by VH1. They focus on when and why each of the songs were written, looking for patterns.
Learners listen to and discuss the purpose of protest music. They analyze an editorial cartoon related to Jim Crow and read questions from the literacy tests given to African-Americans. They work together to write a song about the sit-ins in Greensboro.
Young scholars listen to different songs and identify the themes. They analyze the social and historical meanings of words in the songs. They write their own verses using historical events of their time.
Young scholars research the history of Bryce Canyon National Park. They identify geological features of the Park while examining its recreational activities. They work together to write lyrics to a song about the Park.
In this lesson, Writing Numbers With Song, students practice writing their numbers 1-5. Students sing the numbers song and explore how to draw the numbers 1-5 in the song. Students practice drawing their numbers after the teacher has modeled it for them. Students will then partner up and draw bigger more creative numbers.
Learners work on a variety of thematic links based on "Summer Song," by Susan Rowan Masters.
Students memorize and sing "The Presidents Song," while learning the presidents' names in order from Washington to Coolidge. They compose lyrics to "The Presidents Song," to include all the presidents up to the current president.
Young scholars explore the historic background of the song, The Battle of New Orleans. Working in pairs, students research other historic events and write their own songs based on them.
Students analyze a variety of primary source materials related to lynching (news articles, letters written to or written by prominent Americans, pamphlets, broadsides, etc.) in order to assess the effectiveness of the anti-lynching campaign spearheaded by African-Americans. This instructional activity focuses on Billie Holiday's signature song, "Strange Fruit," a protest song Lewis Allen (Abel Meeropol) wrote in 1938 about the ongoing and intransigent problem of lynching in the American South.
