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Common Core RH.9-10.2 songs
Great Depression Music Analysis
This lesson plan was designed to help students learn about some of the major themes of the Great Depression through music. Six songs have been carefully selected from the 1920s and 1930s. Background information is included for each song. Students are asked to complete a graphic organizer as they listen to each song. The worksheet will help students analyze the various problems different groups encountered in the Great Depression.
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7th - 12th
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AIDS Epidemic of the 80s and 90s - Art, Music, and the LGBTQ Community
The Essential Question for students during this unit is: How did the LGBTQ community creatively respond to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, and protest government inaction in addressing the epidemic? First, students will share what they already know about AIDS - do a KWL chart if you are familiar. Review the Overview slide with students to provide background information and front load before beginning videos and activities. Students will watch a video clip and look at documents that expla
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in:Â English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
RI8.7 Protest Song Analysis: Fortunate Son (Vietnam Era Music)
The lyrics of the song Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival are presented for students to analyze. Provide students with this worksheet so that they can read (and follow along) while they listen to the song. The more background information that your students have about the Vietnam War, the draft, and other events of the 1960s and 1970s, the easier this assignment will be. This assignment is also provided in a Vietnam War Unit bundle to provide students with all of the necessary backgrou
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Protest Song Project - Example, Research, Outline, and Rubric
Holocaust - Hitler - League of Nations - Between the Wars SONG / HIP-HOP
This lesson plan and song combination are the perfect way to:Introduce the rise of HitlerThe HolocaustThe ineffectiveness of the League of NationsEntire "Between the Wars," unit. It is also an extremely effective way to review these units as well. Included in this package is a song that describes the causes of how and why Hitler came to power, the impact of the Holocaust, and how the League of Nations appeasement was a failed policy. Included with this lesson plan are the lyrics to the song, l
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Hamilton the Musical Analysis: Alexander Hamilton
Help your students connect with history when studying the American Revolution in class. Listen to the soundtrack from Hamilton The Musical and use the songs to help shape classroom conversations regarding America's road to revolution!This worksheet facilitates students' analysis of the first song in the musical, "Alexander Hamilton," addressing the following topics:Hamilton's childhoodHamilton's role in the Caribbean sugar & slave tradeAn introduction to America's Founding FathersPolitics in
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Hamilton The Musical Analysis Bundle
Cold War Berlin: Musical Resistance (slides, videos, questions, activities)
The Cold War, especially the erection of the Berlin Wall, affected the music, fashion, and politics of Germany, as well as the United States. This Unit asks students an Essential Question: How did music help people resist what the Berlin Wall symbolized? The first activity gets students talking about why a country might build a wall and what effect it would have on its citizens. For background information, use the Overview slides as front-loading. Next, students watch the video clip Constructing
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in:Â English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
Hamilton The Musical Analysis: Guns and Ships
Help your students connect with history when studying the American Revolution in class. Listen to the soundtrack from Hamilton The Musical and use the songs to help shape classroom conversations regarding America's road to revolution! This worksheet addresses the Battle of Yorktown, Lafayette's role in the revolution, and General Cornwallis' surrender.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Hamilton The Musical Analysis Bundle
How to Start a New Nation by Misduh P - Revolutionary War Rap & Lesson Plan
This lesson plan combines rap with history to give students an interesting way to study the causes leading up to the American Revolution. Students will construct and argument and annotate music that details the life experience of a Patriot Colonist in the 1770s. Includes:1. MP3 of How to Start a New Nation by Misduh P.2. Lyrics sheet complete with footnotes for vocabulary.3. Full lesson plan and extension activity.4. Argument based worksheet handout for student assessment.
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6th - 12th
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Cold War Berlin: Musical Resistance Unit
The Cold War, especially the erection of the Berlin Wall, affected the music, fashion, and politics of Germany, as well as the United States. This Unit asks students an Essential Question: How did music help people resist what the Berlin Wall symbolized? The first activity gets students talking about why a country might build a wall and what effect it would have on its citizens. For background information, use the Overview slides as front-loading.Next, students watch the video clip Constructing
Grades:
8th - 11th
Cold War Berlin: Song Comparison Graphic Organizer (3 songs; lyrics included)
The Essential Question for this unit is: How did music help people resist what the Berlin Wall symbolized? Students will analyze 3 songs from the 1980s released as both a response and in resistance to the wall put up in Cold War Berlin. The songs included for analysis are - Nina's - 99 Red Balloons, Billy Joel's - Honesty, and Vladimir Vysotsky - I Don’t Like. Students will analyze important lyrics, each song's message, and the emotions conveyed by filling out the graphic organizer.
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in:Â English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
Great Depression Song Close Read & Free Write
This is a worksheet where students evaluate songs from the 1930s to deepen content understanding regarding what life was like during the Great Depression.
I pass out this worksheet to help students with their analysis and close reading skills.
The second worksheet is a journal entry asking students to complete a free write using the songs and knowledge about the Great Depression.
Journal Entry includes sentence frames for ELL students.
Goes well with a clip of Shirley Temple singing the Good
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8th - 11th
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