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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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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!Ā Let the rhythm of music carry your students through reflection and celebration as they select 5 songs to encapsulate their school year journey:ā
A song for my friendsā
A song for my teachersā
A song for my favorite classā
A song for my favorite memory this yearā
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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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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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! āŖINCLUDES: ā
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7th - 12th
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Posters, Readers, Coloring, Performance
This was a gigantic hit at my school for the past few years with all ages, Use these with students in class or with a large group at your Christmas party or assembly. Read and color with the younger students. Do a group interactive performance with the whole school or church or other group. After our group activity, I had so many comments that this was the best ever Christmas assembly thanks to this activity.*Newly added 12 days of Christmas project for older studentsSPECIAL TERMS OF USE FOR THI
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Christmas Song Book of Caroling Sheets
These Christmas Song Book of Caroling Sheets is great for sing a-longs, concerts, and classroom fun over the winter holiday!!21 SONGS INCLUDED1. Deck the Halls2. Jingle Bells3. Let it Snow4. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas 5. Jingle Bell Rock6. Merry Little Christmas7. Over the River and Through the Woods8. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas9. It's Beginning to Look A lot Like Christmas10. Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas11. Here Comes Santa Clause12. Hark! the Harold13. Frosty the Snowman14. Feliz Navid
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in:Ā Christmas Activities Bundle for Fine Motor Skills
Songs To Explore Identity: Critical Thinking Question Slides & Digital Notebook
When our students look through mirrors that offer experiences that are similar to their own, it can boost self-esteem and a sense of belonging. When we teach students to look through mirrors that have perspectives different than their own, it creates empathy and acceptance. Using music to create these "mirrors" provides a safe, inclusive learning environment where students can feel comfortable reflecting and sharing.These slides and printable or digital student notebook are ideal for bell-ringer
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Ā Song Analysis Bundle - Identity and Social Change
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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Favorite Carols BUNDLE TWO ā 10 Song Teacher Kit Christmas Carol
Here are some of my favorite Carols to teach to kids! These āFavorite Carolā kits are intended to help you teach each song and reinforce historical content and vocabulary at the same time. The set could be printed out and posted on a bulletin board or used as reference cards as you teach the lesson. I know there are some folks on carts or who primarily use digital projectors so Iāve included a PowerPoint format of the set as well.
I love teaching carols to my students! There are so many
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PreK - 12th
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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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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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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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:Ā Taylor Swift Lyrics Coloring Page Bookmark BUNDLE
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 Bradburyās 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 analyzeāand appreciateāthis classic Bradbury work.This engagin
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8th - 11th
Bosquejo para Ensayo Argumentativo Hamilton Satisfied - SPANISH Argument Essay
Si te cuesta motivar a tus estudiantes a argumentar, Ā”dĆ©jaselo a Hamilton! La canciĆ³n Satisfied del popular musical histĆ³rico modela perfectamente la estructura del ensayo. Esta unidad enseƱa a los estudiantes las caracterĆsticas de un buen texto argumentativo, y luego los guĆa en la redacciĆ³n de un ensayo argumentativo. Tras analizar la situaciĆ³n a la que se enfrenta Angelica Schuyler en la canciĆ³n, los estudiantes tomarĆ”n una postura a favor del amor o la razĆ³n, y pasarĆ”n por el proceso de esc
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7th - 11th
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost ā Poem Analysis, The Outsiders Activity
This lesson is a poem analysis of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. This is a perfect side activity for the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton!This activity also works on its own if you are looking just to teach about the poem itself. Your students don't have to be reading The Outsiders.In Chapter 5 of The Outsiders, Ponyboy recites the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." This poem plays a major role in the novel as it represents the universal message to stay gold and stay pure. Have your stud
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Ā The Outsiders Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
Schoolhouse Rock! Grammar Rock Lyric Fill-In-the-Blank
In this resource, you get all 9 Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock songs in an easy to print, fill-in-the-blank style format to use with your students.You will get:A Noun is a Person, Place or ThingBusy PrepositionsConjunction JunctionInterjections!Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here!Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (Pronouns)The Tale of Mister Morton (Subject/Predicate)Unpack Your AdjectivesVerb! That's What Happenin'My students watch the video first. Then, I gave them the paper to fill in the blanks as t
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4th - 12th
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Also included in:Ā Schoolhouse Rock Bundle (Grammar and America) Fill-In Activities
Winter Holiday Songs For Guitar! 15 Songs For Music Staff & Tab (Grades 3-12)
Winter Holiday Songs For Guitar! 15 Songs For Music Staff & Tab (Grades 3-12)This WINTER HOLIDAY SONGS FOR GUITAR resource includes public domain Winter Holiday-Themed songs arranged by me for beginning guitar. Each song is arranged with simple, beginner-friendly chords, as well as tablature to help students learn the songs quickly. The TAB has stick notation to help students learn and play rhythms accurately. Also included are two pages of guitar chord diagrams, organized by song so that st
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Song Analysis Bundle - Identity and Social Change
This bundle includes my song analysis resources Songs For Social Change, and Songs to Explore Identity, which both contain a PDF and digital student notebook and Google Slides with clickable links to all of the music videos for the songs. Resources: (Linked below - please check out the individual product listings for more information and previews)- Songs For Social Change- Songs to Explore Identity****************************************Customer Tips:Be the first to know about my new discounts,
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7th - 12th
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Poetry Made Easy: Teach 5 Songs as Poems with Figurative Language Activities
Use songs as a bridge to analyzing traditional poetry. Start with the bonus figurative language activities, then teach the 8 Steps for Annotating Songs as Poems, and finally move to analyzing 5 full songs as poems.This product includes:(1) Bonus Resources for Teaching Literary Devices and Figurative Language *** web links *** student cheat sheet *** 2 worksheets (with answer keys) *** 2 shortened songs for practice with answer keys (āMeanā by Taylor Swift and āFirewor
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7th - 12th
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Tunes With a Twist - Holiday Songs for Band - FULL BUNDLE!
Band directors, your students will be excited and motivated to practice with these FUN holiday songs for band! This printable set of band music in unison lines will be enjoyed year after year. 19 songs are included in each book, with each song in 5 different key signatures and a bonus variation. ALL instruments are included in this bundle! The parts are REPRODUCIBLE for your personal band program. Only one book needed - reproduce as many times as you need for your students!These books are includ
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6th - 12th
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Brief History of the Pinata / Breve Historia de la Pinata
Immersion Island presents a short history of the pinata in English and Spanish. Good for upper elementary, middle school or high school as well as native Spanish speakers / Spanish heritage language learners. Use for Christmas, Navidad, Las Posadas, Latin American celebrations, Mexico celebrations and more. typical song included. Immersion Island les presenta una historia breve de la pinata en espanol e ingles. Celebraciones navidenas, las posadas informacion sobre la pinata tradicional d
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4th - 12th
Bilingual Christmas Carols / Villancicos NavideƱos ~ Spanish-English Songbook
Add to your Christmas Around the World unit with this Spanish and English Christmas Carols (Villancicos de Navidad) Song Book: These bilingual Christmas carols are perfect for Spanish or ESL classes to get in the holiday spirit! We have chosen the most popular and common Christmas carols, so that most kids will be familiar with the tunes. The song book contains 10 traditional songs in both Spanish and English, and 4 additional songs in Spanish, for a total of 14 songs:
Rudolph the Red Nosed Rei
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1st - 12th
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Standards Based Mini-Lesson: Analyzing impact of dialogue
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This mini-lesson uses the song "Just Give Me a Reason" by Pink to teach the following ELA Reading Literary Text Standard:
ANALYZE HOW PARTICULAR LINES OF DIALOGUE OR INCIDENTS IN A STORY PROPEL THE ACTION, REVEAL ASPECTS OF A CHARACTER OR PROVOKE A DECISION.
Students will learn more than just the basics of how to write dialogue-- t
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6th - 12th
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