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High school literature songs for Google Apps
Pop Culture/Music Allusions in All My Rage
This is both a teacher's and student's pop culture guide to all the popular culture (a lot of music) mentioned in All My Rage. EVERY single listing includes the link to the video/picture/etc. mentioned in the novel (page numbers are included). You can use these to easily show in the classroom as you are reading. For example, you can show the video of one of the songs Noor mentions and compare it with what is happening in the novel.
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9th - 12th
Figurative Language Bingo using Music!
Figurative Language Bingo using Known Songs This figurative language activity is to help students to better understand and identify different types such as similes, metaphors, personification, allusion, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. You can play the songs in or out of order that is up to you. You can play Bingo in many different aspects of the unit on figurative language. Check out my figurative language anchor charts that can be used to support this lesson. - This could be played to introduce
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3rd - 10th
Tone and Mood in Music Analysis - Two Song Comparison - Text Analysis
A fun way to teach students tone and mood - through MUSIC! This lesson has students comparing and contrasting two "love songs" with opposing tones. Lyrics for each song are provided in one column and analysis questions are provided in the other. Get students thinking about:Central IdeaToneMoodCiting Textual EvidenceThemeCompare/Contrast
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7th - 10th
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American Dream Analysis Via Songs Compatible with Google Slides
This is a 28-slide Google slides presentation that provides an engaging analysis of the American Dream and/or dreams/hopes in general via 13 songs. For each song about dreams, a prompt is provided for students to answer based on textual evidence from the song’s lyrics. Students are expected to answer the question in their own words AND provide a quote from the song to support their answer. I used these as bell ringers throughout my American Dream unit. You could use them as bell ringers, wrap up
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9th - 12th
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Spotify Playlist Template for ANY Novel
Use this template for students to create spotify playlists for different characters in any novel! The template allows for students to select 5 songs that a specific character might have on their own playlist (if they were real of course :)). You can decide how the songs should relate--characterization, plot, relationships, etc. On the second page there is space for students to explain and rationalize each of their song choices. I have my students do this assignment electronically so they can add
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8th - 11th
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A Long Way Gone-- "Weapon Conflict" Song Analysis
As (or after) your students read A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, have them listen to and analyze the song called "Weapon Conflict" by Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars in this google slides. The slides contain all needed links to access the song and podcast about the band. Students will complete the slides themselves, including an ANSWER-PROVE-EXPLAIN short answer style question that compares the two texts.
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9th - 12th
Musical Chairs Poetry Activity (w/ optional connection to Where...Crawdads Sing)
In this activity, students will quickly and independently analyze several contemporary poems by Mary Oliver. They have the length of a song to identify key concrete detail in a poem and construct meaning from those lines to reinforce the skills needed to analyze a new text in a timed setting. This activity can also be used with Where the Crawdads Sing in order to prepare for the “Universal Thematic Project” (available on TPT). All resources are fully editable, so you can make them work for your
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9th - 12th
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Figurative Language Lyric Search
This activity will not only be fun and engaging for students, but you will get a view into their musical taste and abiltiy to recognize devices of figurative language! Students work can work independently or in partners to search their favorite songs for seven different devices of figurative langauge.
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7th - 12th
Self Grading Taylor Swift Mystery Picture Literary Device Find!
This highly engaging self grading google sheet has students identify literary devices in 10 lines from Taylor Swift lyrics. Each correct answer will reveal one piece of the puzzle picture until the whole picture is revealed!ANSWER KEY:1 anaphora2 metaphor3 allusion4 paradox5 simile6 metaphor7 allusion8 simile9 simile10 metaphor
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6th - 12th
Metaphor Lyrics Activity
Students will read sections of song lyrics. They will then analyze the metaphors. The songs are linked in the activity as well.
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6th - 9th
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Drake's Lyrical Literary Devices Posters (HS English posters)
A collection of 12 posters with a literary device (alliteration, metaphor, symbol, hyperbole, etc.), the definition of the literary device, and an example various Drake songs that showcase his lyrics using those literary devices. Ideal for high school English classes. Editable slides-- pre-set to 18x12 inches for printing.
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9th - 12th
Transcendentalism Media Journal - Google Slides
This Google Slides deck provides YouTube links to brief informational and music videos that can be used to introduce six core Transcendentalist texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller ("Self-Reliance," "Nature," "The American Scholar," Walden, "Civil Disobedience," and Woman in the Nineteenth Century). Each video runs between two and six minutes.There is one relevant informational and music video for each text, except for Walden and "Civil Disobedience," which each
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9th - 12th
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Conflict in "That Power" by Childish Gambino
This slideshow provides an overview of conflict and explores conflict in the spoken word story in Childish Gambino (Donald Glover)'s "That Power." This slideshow can be integrated with Nearpod.
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9th - 12th
Strange Fruit, Systemic Racism, and the Roots of Racist Violence
In this Google Slides compatible lesson, your students will analyze the lyrics of the iconic "Strange Fruit" and discuss what the song has to say about systemic racism. There are a few multiple-choice questions after the reading (with answers in the notes). After viewing a TED Talk featuring Megan Ming Francis, students will complete a thesis paragraph answering the question, "How does Strange Fruit reveal the roots of racist violence." This unit includes a template for the kids and a sample pa
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8th - 12th
Characterization: S.T.E.A.L. Through Song / A Boy Named Sue by Shel Silverstein
Includes lyrics from Shel Silverstein‘s “ A Boy Named Sue“. Hyperlinked with the song sang by Johnny Cash. Some “rough” themes and language that is prefaced with kiddos. Includes follow up questions and a temperature check.
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6th - 12th
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