A fascinating lesson plan integrating poetry, music, and history! Students listen to a coded slave song, analyzing key words, feelings, images and symbols, structure, and the main idea.
This is one of my all time favorite lessons. It works as a stand-alone lesson, or as a part of a poetry, song lyric, or African American history unit/project. Students love the fact that it is "coded," just like a mystery! And the music gets them moving and grooving! Appropriate for fourth through twelfth grade