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This lesson focuses on how the blues both operates as poetry and informs the poetry of many prominent African American poets. Students consider the poetic devices and recurring themes in blues lyrics and the significance of the poetry of the blues as part Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students, by listening to and analyzing the lyrics of selected examples of popular music from the era, develop a greater understanding of the historical and political forces as well as the emotional climate of the decade. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. They analyze the song/video as a work of art (literary, musical, visual) as well as examine its larger cultural/historical context. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students evaluate selected songs as effective tools for social protest and as an historical documents and describe the role music played in the civil rights movement of the 1960s; Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students analyze how social change has affected artistic expression and popular culture. the explain the influence of media on contemporary American culture. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explain that, how in this world of increasing awareness and interdependence, music can act as a magnet to draw people together. They research and compare anti-war songs from many different generations. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students examine how American Jews affect music and entertainment. They identify problems between immigrants and their children. They relate the Jewish American issue to those of African Americans. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine music from after the Vietnam War. They identify the disappointment in the government and the lack of support for troops returning to the United States. They research the writers of the songs as well. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the lyrics to the Bob Dylan song, "The Times They are-a Changin'." They listen to the song, answer discussion questions, identify how the song relates to their own life, and create a photo book illustrating how the students have changed over the years. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze three different ways a story is told, determine truth and fiction in each story, and discover and apply techniques to narrate a good story. Students listen to Bob Dylan's "The Hurricane" and watch the "R" rated movie, "The Hurricane," they compare the two using a Venn Diagram. Students discus Rubin Carter and racism in the 1960's. Full Review »

