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High school english language arts songs
"Firework" by Katy Perry Poetry Terms Figurative Language Activities
Figurative Language and Poetic Devices/Poetry Terms Identification using Katy Perry's "Firework"Use Katy Perry's popular song "Firework" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which devices you'd like your students to find.Updated to include additional exercises for more in-depth learning and making connections to the text! Those I've pointed out in this exercise include:alliteration, anaphora, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Music Lyric Analysis FOR ANY SONG!
This resource can be used with ANY SONG and is great for a review or test prep!No doubt students love music. As teachers, we know one of the bestways to engage students in learning is teach with their interests in mind.Music offers an engaging and exciting way to cover many Common CoreStandards. What makes this resource stand out is that it can be usedwith ANY SONG! This gives you the choice to use one that your studentsare currently enjoying or one that you enjoy yourself. Students are asked to
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3rd - 10th
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End of the Year Playlist - Fun Writing Activity - Printable & Digital - Spotify
Wrap up the school year with a bang! Make those final days memorable and meaningful for your secondary students: MUSIC! Let the rhythm of music carry your students through reflection and celebration as they select 5 songs to encapsulate their school year journey:✅ A song for my friends✅ A song for my teachers✅ A song for my favorite class✅ A song for my favorite memory this year✅ A song to motivate me for next yearStudents can even get creative and craft their own categories using the handy blan
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Secondary Students End of the Year Activity Bundle - Middle School
Songs To Explore Identity: Critical Thinking Question Slides & Digital Notebook
When our students look through mirrors that offer experiences that are similar to their own, it can boost self-esteem and a sense of belonging. When we teach students to look through mirrors that have perspectives different than their own, it creates empathy and acceptance. Using music to create these "mirrors" provides a safe, inclusive learning environment where students can feel comfortable reflecting and sharing.These slides and printable or digital student notebook are ideal for bell-ringer
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Song Analysis Bundle - Identity and Social Change
The Odyssey / O Brother Where Art Thou Movie Activities, Lyric Analysis, CCSS
The movie O Brother Where Art Thou is the perfect pairing to add fun and depth of learning to The Odyssey! These activities foster comparison skills as students analyze the similarities and differences between the two mediums. As a bonus, I've included two song-lyric analysis activities in which students apply Odysseus' travels to the lyrics from two different tunes that make an appearance, including "I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow"! I find this adds just a splash of extra fun! ♪INCLUDES: ★2 page
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7th - 12th
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Schoolhouse Rock Bundle (Grammar and America) Fill-In Activities
This is a bundled pack of both my Grammar Rock and America Rock Fill-In-the-Blank worksheets. In this resource, you get all 9 Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock songs and 11 America Rock in an easy to print (PDF), fill-in-the-blank style format to use with your students to make listening to the songs more interactive!You will get from Grammar Rock:A Noun is a Person, Place or ThingBusy PrepositionsConjunction JunctionInterjections!Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here!Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (Pronou
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4th - 12th
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Figurative Language: Music Through the Decades
Take a journey through the decades while identifying figurative language in music specific to each era. The set includes music from the 50s through the millennium. Great for station work or small group activities.
Each decade handout includes a short summary of the music of the period, six sample lyrics of music popular in the era, and a chart for identifying the figures of speech found in each sampling (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and idiom).
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4th - 9th
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Poetry & Song Lyrics Comparison Activity w/Key
Students have a hard time understanding poetry, but put the words into a song & they seem to get it. This exercise pairs up songs with poems that have similar literary elements and/or themes to make it easier for students to understand difficult concepts.
See the free download for a listing of all the songs & poems included in this lesson.
Teacher's guide/answer key included!
Created by Tracee Orman
www.traceeorman.com
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES G
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Taylor Swift Lyrics Coloring Page Bookmark Set {VERSION 1}
There are 8 unique bookmarks in this set. Each one features lyrics from Taylor Swift songs. They are fully black and white so that students can color them! Version 2 can be found here.Click here to follow me!
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Taylor Swift Lyrics Coloring Page Bookmark BUNDLE
Hamilton the Musical Lyric Analysis
Students will fall in love with Hamilton and with history! The musical Hamilton is a great way to engage students in U.S. History. Students love the music, connect with the characters, and history comes to life. This unit comes with 7 songs, 4 of which have been translated into Spanish! Each song includes the lyrics, instructions to annotate the text, and thought-provoking questions. Songs included are:Alexander Hamilton (also in Spanish)Farmer Refuted Right Hand Man (also in Spanish)Guns a
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8th - 12th
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Analyzing Fahrenheit 451 Through Music Unit - 20+ Songs, Analysis Activities
What better way to connect students with literature than through the music they love? In this novel study for Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, students will be able to analyze each part of the novel by listening to, annotating, explaining, and presenting different songs that closely correlate with the novel on many levels. Beat the boredom of study guides and chapter quizzes, and instead engage your students through music to help them analyze—and appreciate—this classic Bradbury work.This engagin
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8th - 11th
Bosquejo para Ensayo Argumentativo Hamilton Satisfied - SPANISH Argument Essay
Si te cuesta motivar a tus estudiantes a argumentar, ¡déjaselo a Hamilton! La canción Satisfied del popular musical histórico modela perfectamente la estructura del ensayo. Esta unidad enseña a los estudiantes las características de un buen texto argumentativo, y luego los guía en la redacción de un ensayo argumentativo. Tras analizar la situación a la que se enfrenta Angelica Schuyler en la canción, los estudiantes tomarán una postura a favor del amor o la razón, y pasarán por el proceso de esc
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7th - 11th
Paired Passage- Poetry, Song Lyric Questions for "Mother to Son" and "Dear Mama"
This assignment is a set of 8 response questions for a paired reading of "Mother to Son" poem by Langston Hughes and "Dear Mama" song by Tupac Shakur. Poem and song lyrics are not included due to copyright restrictions, but can easily be found online.
Each question asks for a written response that includes text evidence. I suggest using this as a two-day activity in which students spend the first day doing close-readings of both the poem and the song lyrics, and the second day spent writing the
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8th - 11th
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Poetry Made Easy: Teach 5 Songs as Poems with Figurative Language Activities
Use songs as a bridge to analyzing traditional poetry. Start with the bonus figurative language activities, then teach the 8 Steps for Annotating Songs as Poems, and finally move to analyzing 5 full songs as poems.This product includes:(1) Bonus Resources for Teaching Literary Devices and Figurative Language *** web links *** student cheat sheet *** 2 worksheets (with answer keys) *** 2 shortened songs for practice with answer keys (“Mean” by Taylor Swift and “Firewor
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7th - 12th
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Song Analysis Bundle - Identity and Social Change
This bundle includes my song analysis resources Songs For Social Change, and Songs to Explore Identity, which both contain a PDF and digital student notebook and Google Slides with clickable links to all of the music videos for the songs. Resources: (Linked below - please check out the individual product listings for more information and previews)- Songs For Social Change- Songs to Explore Identity****************************************Customer Tips:Be the first to know about my new discounts,
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7th - 12th
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Schoolhouse Rock! Grammar Rock Lyric Fill-In-the-Blank
In this resource, you get all 9 Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock songs in an easy to print, fill-in-the-blank style format to use with your students.You will get:A Noun is a Person, Place or ThingBusy PrepositionsConjunction JunctionInterjections!Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here!Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (Pronouns)The Tale of Mister Morton (Subject/Predicate)Unpack Your AdjectivesVerb! That's What Happenin'My students watch the video first. Then, I gave them the paper to fill in the blanks as t
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Schoolhouse Rock Bundle (Grammar and America) Fill-In Activities
Bilingual Christmas Carols / Villancicos Navideños ~ Spanish-English Songbook
Add to your Christmas Around the World unit with this Spanish and English Christmas Carols (Villancicos de Navidad) Song Book: These bilingual Christmas carols are perfect for Spanish or ESL classes to get in the holiday spirit! We have chosen the most popular and common Christmas carols, so that most kids will be familiar with the tunes. The song book contains 10 traditional songs in both Spanish and English, and 4 additional songs in Spanish, for a total of 14 songs:
Rudolph the Red Nosed Rei
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1st - 12th
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Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost — Poem Analysis, The Outsiders Activity
This lesson is a poem analysis of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. This is a perfect side activity for the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton!This activity also works on its own if you are looking just to teach about the poem itself. Your students don't have to be reading The Outsiders.In Chapter 5 of The Outsiders, Ponyboy recites the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." This poem plays a major role in the novel as it represents the universal message to stay gold and stay pure. Have your stud
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: The Outsiders Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
Standards Based Mini-Lesson: Analyzing impact of dialogue
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This mini-lesson uses the song "Just Give Me a Reason" by Pink to teach the following ELA Reading Literary Text Standard:
ANALYZE HOW PARTICULAR LINES OF DIALOGUE OR INCIDENTS IN A STORY PROPEL THE ACTION, REVEAL ASPECTS OF A CHARACTER OR PROVOKE A DECISION.
Students will learn more than just the basics of how to write dialogue-- t
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6th - 12th
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"Thriller": Citing Textual Evidence, Conflict, Theme and Video Analysis
Just in time for Halloween, students will love interacting with Michael Jackson's classic "Thriller" as they:
•Make inferences from the text and cite textual evidence to support inferences.
•Analyze the development of theme through the analysis of plot, setting, characters, and conflict.
•Compare and contrast the lyrics and video adaption of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.7
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"Thriller" Mini Lesson is licensed under a Creative Common
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6th - 9th
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Music Critic Mini-Project, Unit & Student Handouts | MUSIC JOURNALISM
In this mini-project, students become music critics or music journalists, reviewing and critiquing a full, complete album. Students select: An artist/musician of your choice, and One of their complete albums (some listed as examples).This resource is 100% Editable (Google Docs.) and you may list albums you'd prefer students to review, or allow students to select their own. I created this assignment for use with secondary general music students (middle and high school, grades 7-12).WHAT'S INCLUDE
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7th - 10th
Identifying theme and tone using paired readings
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https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mother-to-Son-and-Dear-Mama-Paired-Reading-3835433
Students will identify the theme and tone using "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes and "Dear Mama" by Tupac Shakur.
Poetry Analysis With Hero Themed Music / Song Lyrics
If your students love music as much as mine do they will love this music analysis activity! Students are asked to listen to / read the lyrics for songs with a Hero Theme. They must choose their two favorites and discuss the meaning of the songs and why they like it. I also allow my students to pick any other song that they can find that relates to the hero theme. Works well with a poetry unit, music study, Hero Unit or as a fun emergency sub plan! Includes:-Assignment Sheet-Hero Brainstorming
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Activity Bundle - Writing, Analysis and Review Resources
Hamilton Poetry Lesson Plan
Engage students in poetry by using the extremely popular musical Hamilton!Practice identifying poetry devices using the lyrics of the Hamilton song "Right Hand Man." Students need to be familiar with the following poetry devices: tone, repetition, end rhyme, internal rhyme, consonance, assonance, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.The download contains a link to the Google Doc assignment and ANSWER KEY.If you notice any errors or encounter any problems, please let me know so that I can make correcti
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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