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"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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Hamilton The Musical - Close Reading About the Revolutionary War
Use Hamilton the Musical to enhance your unit on The American Revolution!
Hamilton fever is strong in my house. My sixteen year old daughter caught it first - singing the songs, proudly wearing her “Young Scrappy and Hungry” t-shirt. I thought it was great, but I also thought it was for older kids. It was only when I saw my 10 year old son singing along with his sister that I started thinking that I could harness the brilliance of Hamilton the Musical to get my 4th graders excited about a
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4th - 6th
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Child Labor CLOSE Read Using Newsies Song Lyrics - History & Reading Activity
If you and your students are learning about the history of child labor, or you are looking for an interesting close reading activity - this resource is for you! Close reading with song lyrics has proven to be very helpful to my students. This resource will help integrate this teaching idea into social studies and history lessons! In this 9-page packet, students will read the lyrics Newsies "Seize the Day." The song explains the feelings of newspaper boys when they were forming their union to fig
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3rd - 7th
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Song Parody Writing Unit for Music or ELA print or digital
Getting buy-in from upper elementary and middle school students can be a challenge! This parodies and piggyback songs unit is NO PREP and includes everything you need to engage those reluctant musicians in composing their own lyrics. This unit works perfectly in music or ELA classes, and includes both printable and Google Slides(TM) versions.This is designed as a cross-curricular activity that could be implemented easily by a music teacher OR an English teacher. I’ve supplied you with an example
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6th - 8th
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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
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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Aca-Scuse Me? Teaching Theme vs. Main Idea With Music and Lyrics
This assignment is PITCH PERFECT for teaching theme to students grades 4 through 8!***UPDATED 9/8/18 TO INCLUDE:***PRE/POST TEST ANSWER KEYSCONCEPT HANDOUT FOR STUDENTSANSWER SHEETS FOR EACH OF THE 5 SONGSIf you are like me back during my first year of teaching 5th, I struggled to teach main idea and theme. This assignment makes the task more fun. Resource is designed to help your students analyze 5 popular songs for themes. Included in this 21 page bundle:-5 hugely popular song lyric pages for
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4th - 8th
The BIG BOOK of FOLK SONG FUN for Bells or Boomwhackers
What a great resource! 36 familiar folk song melodies, professionally notated on the treble staff with color-coded notes to facilitate success with Boomwhackers or bells. This format works well for teachers and students with very little music experience as well as seasoned music teachers and older students. (If your bells, chimes, or boom pipes aren't color-coded, apply colored stickers). These songs may be projected (great for keeping students focused and guiding discussions). They may also be
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K - 8th
The Holmes Sweet Music Home Picture Book Index
Have you been wanting to incorporate children's literature into your music classroom but don't know how? Are you overwhelmed with finding musical books that cover specific concepts or holidays? Do you wish you had something that helped make lesson planning easier? If the answer is yes to any of those questions, then this is the product for you!Five years ago, I sat down and indexed my entire picture book collection. I categorized it to include rhythmic concepts, melodic concepts, holidays, seaso
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PreK - 8th
Teaching Figurative Language with Taylor Swift Songs - Grades 3-6
If there’s one thing I love about Taylor Swift (other than her dance moves!) it is her use of figurative language. If you have ever listened to her songs you know she uses a lot of similes and metaphors in her writing. She is a major pop star today, and I guarantee your students can (and will!) sing along to any one of her songs! With this product you will be able to teach and have your students practice identifying and writing seven types of figurative language using Taylor Swift songs.
Beginn
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3rd - 8th
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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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Black History Month Skits & Readers Theater Plays with Scripts 4th and 5th Grade
Are you looking for exciting Black History Month skits or readers theater plays that connects with kids using pop culture, have scripts with a variety of roles for all students, and teaches history in an engaging way? Then this is it! Readers theater = better comprehension!There is no better way to teach students critical reading skills than with reader's theater. As they perform and learn about the various historical heroes, students will improve their skills by:- connecting with the text- lear
Rock Your Writing! Parts of Speech Bundle - Songs, PowerPoints, Worksheets
Here is the ultimate Rock Your Writing! lesson plan system for teaching elementary schoolers about all the parts of speech. This will save you a lot of money instead of buying our products separately. It even covers prepositional phrases, the four types of sentences and their punctuation, subjects and predicates, and compound sentences. This combo comes with the entire 97- page Rock Your Writing! resource book. Nonfiction sentence examples are used extensively throughout the book, as it is desi
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2nd - 6th
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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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
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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Similes and Metaphors in Music Activity Pack
This packet contains:
~links to 6 different music videos with fun songs the kids know and love that contain examples of similes and metaphors. The songs include:
"Without Love" from the movie Hairspray
"Firework" by Katy Perry
"Red" by Taylor Swift
"Mr. Grinch" from When the Grinch Stole Christmas
"Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes
and "Similes and Metaphors in Pop Music" you can use as an introduction or review
~A Simile and Metaphor Cheat Sheet
~Song Lyrics to the songs listed above
~Pr
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3rd - 6th
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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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The PATRIOTIC COLLECTION of Color-Chord-inated Songs for Bells or Boomwhackers
This set includes seven familiar USA patriotic songs, perfect for creating a themed unit and performance, celebrating patriotic holidays (Veteran's Day, Presidents' Day, Flag Day, Fourth of July), tying into social studies lessons, using as literacy fluency activities, or enriching musical exploration of meter, form, chords and melody. Printable or projectable song pages, instructions, teaching guidelines, and some programming suggestions are included.
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K - 8th
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
Christmas Play Script - Holly the Christmas Elf
A funny Christmas play that revolves around Holly the Elf. After being accidentally taken to the North Pole one Christmas Eve, she stayed until adulthood and grew up thinking she was an elf herself. One day she found out she was a human, and decided to go and visit her biological father.On arrival she wasn’t welcomed by her father but soon the family grew to like Holly, and she also found a boyfriend. But then everything changed when she fell out with her father and she decided to leave.However,
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: A Bundle of Four Christmas Play Scripts
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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