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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 12th
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Students write a rap or hip-hop lyric about the life of a famous Black American. They explore famous Black Americans in history and explore how the rap form compares to other forms of poetic expression. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students compose lyrics for a rap song. Their compositions must rhyme in a particular pattern and must be about a particular topic. They perform their rap songs for the rest of the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students consider the negative image that some have of rap and hip-hop music through discussion and reading an opinion piece from The New York Times. They create CD cover artwork reflecting these messages. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students write a Rap song that demonstrates their mastery of the vocabulary and definitions of scientific words from their textbook. They word process the Rap and perform it. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students experiment with the basic process of creating a song using audio editing software similar to the process followed in a recording studio. They record rap versions of songs about school rules and then record, edit and produce final tracks. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students examine the works of Noam Chomsky. They collaborate in small groups to read and identify vocabulary words and historical questions. They answer their questions and role-play as emissaries to locate remaining answers. They rewrite rap lyrics to identify the themes of the rich and the poor. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students write and listen to rap songs. They discover how common themes in rap are indicative of the problems, as well as the empowerments, that can be seen in our urban cultures today. They discover how rap is actually an evolution of poetic form-to try to get them excited about structure, meaning, and creative expression. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students create a rap using basic AB form composition. Evaluation of performances are based on rubric formed during the first lesson by all students. This three to four day lesson culminates in student performances and evaluation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students listen to recordings and study jazz and the blues music. They identify the instrumentation and explore the 12-bar blues progression. After experimenting with different sound, students create their own arrangement, with lyrics. Full Review »
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