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Common Core RL.6.5 songs
National Poetry Month Middle School Music as Poetry Song Activity Worksheets
Do your middle school students find poetry boring? Engage them with the music of Green Day with this low prep figurative language practice and song lyrics analysis activity. Your students will connect the song lyrics with background information and context to find deeper meaning, practice annotating figurative language, and answer thought-provoking discussion questions. Perfect for an individual class assignment, partner or group work, as an assessment, or on substitute days!✨Includes:Song Back
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5th - 8th
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National Poetry Month Lesson Song Lyrics Middle School Activity Music as Poetry
Looking for a fun middle school figurative language poetry activity with song lyrics and poetry close reading practice? This NO PREP music as poetry activity features lyrics with background information and context, strong figurative language, and thought-provoking discussion questions for the song "Carnival" by Natalie Merchant. Can be used as a class assignment, homework, or as an assessment. Includes:Pre-reading questionsSong Lyrics Video link for listeningAnnotation instructions printable Voc
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6th - 8th
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National Poetry Month Song Lyrics Middle School Activity Music as Poetry Lesson
Looking for a fun middle school figurative language poetry activity with song lyrics and poetry close reading practice? This NO PREP music as poetry activity features lyrics with background information and context, strong figurative language, and thought-provoking discussion questions for the song "Time" by Hootie and the Blowfish. Can be used as a class assignment, homework, or as an assessment. Includes:Song Background InfoSong Lyrics Video link for listeningAnnotation instructions printable D
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6th - 8th
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"To Love Them, To Leave Them" A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study
Your middle school students' hearts will appreciate this unit of study, featuring popular songs "Yours" by Russell Dickerson and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift! Activities include developing mental pictures, lyric analysis, opinion and narrative writings, text-to-text and text-to-self connection building, figurative language study, background study of song inspiration, authors' purpose writing, and collaborative conversation through Socratic seminar. The stage will be
National Poetry Month Music as Poetry Analysis and Worksheets Middle School
Looking for a fun middle school figurative language poetry activity with song lyrics for close reading? This folk music activity features a writing prompt students can connect to, lyrics with strong figurative language, a vocabulary element, and thought-provoking discussion questions. Can be used as a class assignment, homework, or as an assessment. Includes:Reflective pre-listening journal promptSong Lyrics Video link for listeningAnnotation instructions printable Discussion QuestionsWant more
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5th - 7th
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Animals of Eden: A Story of Teamwork in the Wild (eBook Version)
In this poetic children's verse, woodland creatures learn to work together and save their precious land from forest fires. A lyrical tale that encourages hard work, persistence, and "watchful balance" with nature. "Teamwork and quick wit saves us all!"This eBook text allows for several layers of differentiated learning as the poetic stanzas and literary devices include varied levels of complexity. Younger students will enjoy the suggestive images that go along with the story while older studen
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Not Grade Specific
Readers' Theatre: The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Whether you want to enliven your class reading of The Necklace with Readers' Theatre, or are looking for a play to perform for Middle or High School, this script has you covered. There are even three musical numbers in the song---but these are entirely optional. They're also easy to perform because they're based on popular music. And we include the links to the songs in the script!
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Christmas Poems Collection
This zipped file includes 6 Christmas poems I used as bell-ringers during the Christmas season:
"Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" by Dr. Elmo
"Grown Up Christmas List" by Linda Thompson-Jenner
"I’m Wishing the Whole World Christmas" by Annette Wynne
"In the Bleak Midwinter" by Christina Rossetti
"Mistletoe" by Walter de la Mare
Each poem includes a formatted copy of the poem with title, author, text, and a clip-art picture to liven up the
Readers Theatre: St. Patrick's Day Play: Molly Malone
Just in time for St Patrick's day, here is a charming Readers' Theatre adaptation of the Irish folk song, Molly Malone. You can treat it as Readers' Theatre or you can even stage a performance of it. A fantastic way to celebrate the St Patrick's Day holiday while strengthening reading fluency and comprehension.
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4th - 7th
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A Litany in Time of Plague by Nashe Close Reading Poetry Analysis for students
Close Reading Poetry Analysis of "A Litany in Time of Plague" by Thomas Nashe. Analyzing poetry is an art. How do you get better at it? Practice. Here is an easy way to teach close reading with self-guided questions that help the student gain understanding of breaking down lines of poetry.This poem pairs well with a using short stories and poems from Christina Rossetti or even Emily Dickinson for their sad/death themed poems. "The Dirge" by Rossetti or "A Litany in Time of Plague" by Thomas N
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6th - 10th
Also included in:Â A Study in Historical Epidemics Through Poetry Paired Texts Thematic Unit
Aristotle's Elements of Theatre Lesson Plan (6th-8th Grade)
In this one-hour lesson plan (which can be broken down into two or three shorter lessons), students will learn Aristotle's six elements of theatre through learning a song about them, watching clips from Star Wars, and playing an interactive cooperative learning game called Numbered Heads.
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6th - 9th
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Annotating Poetry Through Song
Make poetry fun and relatable again! In this freebie handout students can annotate stanza by stanza. Students can answer questions at the bottom of the handout or teacher can use them as discussion questions. Recommendations are that teacher plays the song while students are annotating to make it a truly interactive experience!
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4th - 6th
Song Comparison Activity - I Loved Her First and My Little Girl
This activity is to be used after listening to the songs "I Loved Her First" by Heartland and "My Little Girl" by Tim McGraw. It includes questions about point of view, theme, audience, author's purpose, and compare and contrast. The lyrics to the songs are not included but can be found easily by doing an online search.
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5th - 7th
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