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World history song microsofts for homeschool
Vietnam War Music Activity
The following is an activity in which students explore various songs which were direct results and/or responses to the conflict in Vietnam. Students are provided with the lyrics to the following four songs:- "For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield- "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young- "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye- "Ballad of the Green Berets" by Staff Sergeant Barry SadlerInstructions are for the teacher to play the songs while the students listen to the songs and read the lyric
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Do we benefit from slavery today, as the North did in the 1800s?
This is a powerful lesson for students to see a modern connection to the past.Before this lesson, you should discuss with students how the North was complicit in slavery as much as the South was in the years prior to the Civil War. Northerners profited greatly off the backs of slave labor, whether they would have wanted to admit it or not. This lesson poses the question: Do we profit from slavery today?It uses multi-media clips about Nike and Apple as well as a song called "Are My Hands Clean"
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6th - 12th
Theme Song for each week of 7th grade history: includes lyrics-images-hyperlinks
Call it "Music Monday", "Time-for-beats Tuesday", "History-song Hump-day", "Theme-song Thursday", or "Fun Friday" and use a history-themed song once-a-week all year long to enhance learning.This download includes a 60-slide PowerPoint that matches 30 songs to topics studied in 7th grade social studies. Some songs are funny, others are serious, but all of them correspond to topics such as: The Roman Empire, Islam, Africa, China, Japan, Europe, Maya-Inca-Aztec, Renaissance, Reformation, Scientifi
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5th - 8th
Theme Song for each week of high school world history: includes lyrics-hyperlink
Call it "Music Monday", "Time-for-beats Tuesday", "History-song Hump-day", "Theme-song Thursday", or "Fun Friday" and use a history-themed song once-a-week all year long to enhance learning.This download includes a 65-slide PowerPoint that matches 32 songs to topics studied in a high school World History or Western Civilizations class. Some songs are funny, others are serious, but all of them correspond to topics such as: American, French, Latin American Revolutions, Spanish, British, Italian I
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8th - 12th
Vietnam War PowerPoint and War-Era Songs
This 39-slide PowerPoint gives a very comprehensive overview of the 1960s and 1970s conflict.
It includes dozens of pictures, as well as information on the following topics:
Fact sheet overview, Ho Chi Minh, Cambodia, Nixon, anti-war demonstrations, and many songs. These songs include Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" (with student questions), Creedance Clearwater Revival's "The Fortunate Son" (with student questions), "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, "For What it's Worth" by B
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
A Deeper Look at The Banana Boat Song (Day-O), Harry Belafonte, 1956
This lesson uses a popular song as a text to encourage listening comprehension skills. Students will also engage critical thinking and writing skills, and develop perspective-taking and empathy.This lesson generates a fun and vibrant in-class conversation.Another highlight of this lesson is that it offers an opportunity to examine the concept of nonstandard English. And, this song could fit in nicely with a unit on Labor relations and/or work songs.I include this song in a unit within my semes
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6th - 12th
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Parts of the Body - In Latin!
Introductory powerpoint with activities and labeling. Teach students 27 different parts of the body using images, song and English derivation.
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Lesson Plan
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes (in Latin!)
Introductory vocab slides for each body part.
English derived words associated with each body part.
Whole class activities for review and labeling the parts of the body.
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3rd - 12th
We Didn't Start the Fire
I use this checklist for "We Didn't Start the Fire" as an introduction to the Cold War. I have students go through and check off events/people/etc. that they recognize while watching the music video for Billy Joel's song. I use the video that has images with each item on the list. I also have students write the year that one grandparent and one parent/guardian was born before starting. We then at the end of the song go back and look at everything their grandparents and parents have witnessed in
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10th - 12th
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Hamilton the Musical Analysis
This lesson uses two songs from Hamilton the Musical. "The Battle of Yorktown" and "What comes next," are used to examine the final battle between American colonists and British troops. With lyrics attached, and analysis questions, all you need is a copy of both songs to play for students.
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5th - 12th
(Song Lyrics) History of Judaism Rap: Straight outta Canaan
I took the NWA song "Straight outta Compton" and made this. The song focuses on some key stories from Genesis and Exodus. Mostly: Abraham, Sarah, Noah, Hagar, and Moses.Here is a preview from the second verse...Straight outta Egypt, another prophet to deliverRamses’ slaves and a boy’s sent up riverHe became a prince raised in the palaceto the Israelites pharaoh had maliceBut watch out here's a son of the Levitesaccording to the records, he fightsSaw an Egyptian beating someone he knewbeatin' o
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Russian Revolution Rap
TWO SONGS HERE! This rap talks about the Romanov family, Rasputin, World War I,White Russians,Red Russians, Lenin, and Stalin
Also, this song goes with Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio. Use the instrumental beat off of Youtube.
There are two songs here about this. The first one is my own truly original version of the Russian Revolution. The second version is also my own version, but is based off the original song's (Gangsta Paradise) lyrics. I have a preview of the lyrics from the second ve
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rap: World War II Timeline Rap
This rap puts in order many events of World War II as well as the dates. It will help your students remember when Hitler came to power, the Berlin Olympics, the Soviet Nazi Pact, Lend Lease, London Blitz, Normandy, Liberation of Paris, Iwo Jima, Hitler's suicide, and the dates of the major bombs.
I rapped it to an instrumental version of the Nas song If I Ruled the World.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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World War One WWI Narrative Song - Fresh Prince Theme Song Parody and Video
This song is a fun and clever way for your students to memorize some of the facts contained within the narrative of World War One. The song is set to the exact tune of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. Use a Youtube instrumental of the song to sing the lyrics over. A great way to engage all learners.Update: This purchase now includes a link to a music video in order to get a better feel for what the song should sound like. Feel free to have students sing over it.Attention! As with all of m
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7th - 12th
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WWII American Propaganda (Rationing, War Bonds...)
Propaganda was a big part of maintaining American support for Interventionism and WWII. This ppt addresses the areas of propaganda with links to music, cartoons, and video clips that enhance the messages and meanings of the time.
This power point ties in well after completing my compare and contrast of the 14 points and the Atlantic Charter. (Wilsonian - Roosevelt Peace Plan)
Grades:
9th - 12th
Ancient Greece and Rome Rap
This rap is a parody of the Notorious BIG song, Juicy. Here is a sample (I recommend you have an idea of how the original song goes):
"It was once all Crete
I used to read Homer’s Odyssey
Sailing boats off the Aegean Sea
Carving pictures on the wall
Every Persian Attack, and Phalanx won’t fall
Pericles let his vote rock 'til his the stones drops
Black and white rocks, helots in fields about to get crops
Way back, when they traded this and that
Watch a discus match
Remember Chief God Zeus,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rap: Christopher Colombus and Magellan- God, Gold, and Glory AND Cortes Rap
This product contains 2 different songs. The first song talks about the Hernan Cortes and his visit to Mexico (Tenochtitlan).The second song talks about Bart Dias, Christopher Colombus, and Ferdinand Magellan. The Focus is God, Gold, and Glory. References, the astrolabe, compass, cavalier, and Magellan space probe. This song is LONG and I would almost consider just using one of these sections and encouraging your kids to make their own version of one of the characters.I've found they flow p
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
WWI RAP: Lose your trench
This song is a parody of the Oscar winning 8-Mile song by Eminem called Lose yourself. It introduces Gavrilo Princip at the sandwich shop right before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. It than goes into other key events of World War I: Russian Revolution, Trench warfare, Treaty of Versailles. The kids enjoyed it very much!
I placed a preview below.
(Talking intro)
Look, if you had shot or one opportunity
to stop the archduke
Would you capture him or just have a bite?
(rapping)
Yo
Dude i
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Canción - "Criminal" by Ozuna - Lyric activity and Cloze-passage quiz
This includes lyrics to "Criminal" by Ozuna, a comprehension activity with the lyrics and a cloze passage quiz. In the lyric activity: students only use the lyrics (no dictionaries) to find vocabulary words using context clues, find different examples of verb tenses, translate phrases using context, find the main idea of the song and finish with a cultural comparison. It usually takes me one class period to learn about the singer, listen to the song, watch the video and work on the worksheet.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
John Mayer "Waiting on the World to Change" and Why we Should Study History
This lesson takes the song "Waiting on the World to Change," and uses it as a way for students to listen for John Mayer's message about not being apathetic and being a participator in our history and our democracy.
The song lyrics and posted along boxes to write student thoughts, followed by critical thinking questions to enable discussion.
You will need to play a version of Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change" to best complete this lesson
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6th - 12th
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World War II Rap
This rap is performed to the Outkast song "Cause the whole World." If you have the guts to perform this than you are awesome. I did it for my kids and they were actually singing my original chorus.
The song covers the Spanish Civil War, Hitler (and his dog Blondi), Stalin, Stalin Hitler Pact, Hirohito, Mussolini, Jesse Owens, Dollersheim, Third Reich, Versailles, France, socialist, fascist, Volkswagen,
Here is a preview
Three countries shake hands and form an Axis,
before they fought they
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ten Plagues Song
I wrote this song to help my 2nd grade class learn the Ten Plagues of Egypt. Moses went to Pharaoh ten times and was denied 10 times, so: The Nile turns into blood, Frogs, Gnats, Flies, Cattle Died, Boils, Hail, Locusts, Darkness, Firstborns died. Sung to the tune of the Addams Family theme song this song will teach your kids the 10 plagues in a catchy, fun, and familiar way. This song depicts Moses as the leader and all the Plagues that God sends to Egypt from blood to the end where Pharaoh let
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1st - 5th
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Nationalism
This is a nice way to introduce the motivation behind the global spread of democratic ideas and nationalist movements. For example, to explain or convey the reason why people involved in such movements as the French Revolution, the effects of the Napoleonic Wars on the development and spread of nationalism in Europe, the influence of nationalism on Haitian, Mexican, and South American revolutions, Zulu Wars, Sepoy Rebellion, Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion. The concept of nationalism will also
Grades:
6th - 12th
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