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Middle school english language arts songs for Microsoft PowerPoint
Aca-Scuse Me? Teaching Theme vs. Main Idea With Music and Lyrics
This assignment is PITCH PERFECT for teaching theme to students grades 4 through 8!***UPDATED 9/8/18 TO INCLUDE:***PRE/POST TEST ANSWER KEYSCONCEPT HANDOUT FOR STUDENTSANSWER SHEETS FOR EACH OF THE 5 SONGSIf you are like me back during my first year of teaching 5th, I struggled to teach main idea and theme. This assignment makes the task more fun. Resource is designed to help your students analyze 5 popular songs for themes. Included in this 21 page bundle:-5 hugely popular song lyric pages for
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4th - 8th
Rock Your Writing! Parts of Speech Bundle - Songs, PowerPoints, Worksheets
Here is the ultimate Rock Your Writing! lesson plan system for teaching elementary schoolers about all the parts of speech. This will save you a lot of money instead of buying our products separately. It even covers prepositional phrases, the four types of sentences and their punctuation, subjects and predicates, and compound sentences. This combo comes with the entire 97- page Rock Your Writing! resource book. Nonfiction sentence examples are used extensively throughout the book, as it is desi
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2nd - 6th
Bosquejo para Ensayo Argumentativo Hamilton Satisfied - SPANISH Argument Essay
Si te cuesta motivar a tus estudiantes a argumentar, ¡déjaselo a Hamilton! La canción Satisfied del popular musical histórico modela perfectamente la estructura del ensayo. Esta unidad enseña a los estudiantes las características de un buen texto argumentativo, y luego los guía en la redacción de un ensayo argumentativo. Tras analizar la situación a la que se enfrenta Angelica Schuyler en la canción, los estudiantes tomarán una postura a favor del amor o la razón, y pasarán por el proceso de esc
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7th - 11th
Classroom Songs (for Morning Meetings, Transitions and Community Building)
The first 6 educational songs in a growing bundle written to popular songs your students will love! Build community and have fun learning through singing! Looking for content specific songs for your grade level? Head over to @that_idaho_teacher on instagram and send me a message! This bundle includes lyrics, instrumental links and directions on how to get morning songs going in your classroom! Songs include:Achiever: tune of BelieverGrowing: tune of I Ain’t Worried My brain: tune of BANGOur Clas
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K - 6th
Rutina diaria. Song. Reflexive Verbs. Spanish Daily Routine. Fiche de travail
Learn with songs! A fun way to introduce a topic and review grammar and vocabulary! This is a learning sequence that you can develop and work on for 4 days in which you will find different activities. It will allow to work: listening, writing and speaking skills! At the end of the lesson students will be able to:-To practice and to talk about their daily routine. They will talk about the activities they do in their free time.-Have fun and review a grammar topic with a song! =) Objectives:- Ling
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Music of the Harlem Renaissance {Duke Ellington Play-Along}
Teach students to appreciate music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance! This resource includes:a power-up activity where students determine whether a quote comes from Harlem Renaissance poetry or a hip hop songbackground information on famous jazz composer Duke Ellingtonan instrument play-along to "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing"brief introduction of how music is organized into measures, meter, and note valuesYou might also be interested in these other resources:Proud Mary {In
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2nd - 8th
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Hamilton Musical Satisfied Song Argumentative Essay Writing Outlines and Debate
Drawing from a catchy song from Hamilton, students will learn the structure of an argumentative speech, and craft their own effective argument essay about following love vs. reason. Students will use guiding outlines to get their ideas together and craft a well-structured paper. The song matter will bring out the best kind of passion in students, the same one they’ll need to take a stance about potential real-life relationship decisions.The teacher may decide to extend this lesson with a debate
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8th - 11th
PENTATONIX: A Capella Singing Sensation! - PowerPoint Presentation w/ Quiz
Get to know Pentatonix, the five member a cappella group that's taking the world by storm! This PowerPoint presentation is packed with information on the group, from their beginnings to their current successes. Plus, there's a 10 question quiz at the end to test your students' knowledge. Whether you're a fan of Pentatonix or not, this presentation is sure to entertain! Topics Covered:HistoryKey TermsQuotesTimelineQuizWhat's included in the package:* Pentatonix PPTX* Pentatonix Show PPSX* Pentato
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4th - 12th
COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS (FANBOYS) RAP SONG
Hey! Do you have students who know entire rap songs but are unable to memorize the, er, finer parts of speech? Here is a powerpoint rap and song that I made to help students understand coordinating conjunctions or FANBOYS. They memorized it in two days, even though we are taking two weeks for each language skill. Enjoy!
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K - 6th
Back to School First Week of School INSPIRATIONAL Activities
This is truly a unique collection of activities and resources that are designed to be used in either a 4th, 5th, or 6th grade classroom during the first day and throughout the first week of school. If a teacher can inspire students in those first few moments of school then, the atmosphere for a productive, engaged learning environment is set for the rest of the year. This package includes:
Two highly engaging class team building exercises
A welcome poem that sets the scene for the first few mom
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4th - 7th
Old Town Road {Bucket Drumming Activity}
Review the elements of a narrative while incorporating popular music into your classroom. Students will love getting to listen and play the bucket drums to Lil Was X and Billy Ray Cyrus' hit single, "Old Town Road." Includes lesson plan suggestions, discussion prompts, compare and contrast, and bucket drumming activity. You might also be interested in these other resources:Sit Still, Look Pretty {Bucket Drumming}Respect {Instrument Play-Along}I'll Find You {Instrument Play-Along}Don't forget to
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3rd - 8th
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THE LOVE SONG ANALYSIS [ASSIGNMENTS & PROJECTS] [MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL EDITION]
Are you stumped about what to do with your students for Valentine's Day? Don't worry about it! Let them analyze LOVE songs! The LOVE Song Analysis& Projects RESOURCE for middle and high schoolers can be used for one day, one week, or up to a month or unit of love and adds excitement for them, even if they don't have a "boo" or "bae." This EDITABLE resource has 9 PROJECTS and assignments, a whopping 25 popular love songs with videos, lyrics provided to display on your Promethean OR for annota
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6th - 12th
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Music and Poetry
Looking for materials to integrate poetry into your music classroom? Or are you a language arts teacher looking to integrate music into your classroom? This comprehensive set includes:
*Meter Powerpoint:Includes information and examples about meter in music and meter in poetry
*Rhythm Powerpoint: Includes information and examples about rhythm in music and rhythm in poetry
*Form Powerpoint: Includes information and examples about form in music and rhyming form in poetry
*Lines and Phrases Powerp
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4th - 6th
Poetry Compare and Contrast - Used To Love You and i carry your heart - Sub Plan
Compare and contrast poetry and song lyrics! Teach students to compare and contrast for state test assessment as they compare poetry and song lyrics. Gwen Stefani’s song lyrics “Used To Love You” and e.e. cummings’s poem “i carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)” take a different perspective on love. Both are written with voice and passion. Students will compare and contrast content, language, tone, structure and theme to prepare them for the short answer response questions on end-of-
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6th - 12th
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Folk Song and Music Lesson: "This Old Man" Rhythm, Melody, Ostinato
Folk Song favorite "This Old Man" is a great song to teach Music Concepts of Steady Beat and Rhythm. This set of music lesson materials will help you reinforce or introduce and practice singing, rhythm, notation, melody, and ostinato using the Teaching Video with FIVE sections to learn music skills. Lesson Ideas for K-6 included.RESOURCE INCLUDES:CONCEPTS:SingingRhythm, Notation, Melody, OstinatoFILE TYPES- VIDEO, PDF-Power Point-Mp3 of Vocal and Accompaniment.VIDEO: Teaching Video (piano accomp
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2nd - 6th
Song Lyric Analysis For Figurative Language Mixed Melodies Grades 5-8
This mini-lesson PowerPoint will allow your students to identify different types of figurative language from a catchy pop and country songs. Animations help both the teacher and the student identify the words in the lyrics that are figurative and the student is prompted to explain the meaning. This lesson is common core aligned and just plain, old-fashioned fun!
This activity works well after an initial lesson on figurative language or review.
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5th - 8th
Earth Day Orff Song "Earth Day is a Special Day" , Ukulele, Guitar Chords
Celebrate Earth Day in your elementary music classroom singing the fun song "Earth Day is a Special Day" to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle”. Use the Orff arrangement or Ukulele and Guitar pages too for an engaging Earth Day music lesson.Use this song across your grade levels. K-2 sing the song3-6 play the songUkulele Lesson for your ukulele classes.CONCEPTS:C-G7-F CHORDSNotes: C,D,E,F,G,APlaying TrianglePlaying ChordsPlaying BassPlaying MelodyRESOURCE INCLUDES:Sheet Music with and without note n
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K - 6th
Also included in: Spring April Elementary Music Lesson Bundle of Music Activities K-6
Of Mice and Men Themes through 17 Songs with Lyrics
17-song Powerpoint presentation that presents the lyrics for students to follow along as the songs are played in the classroom.
I used this to introduce themes of Of Mice and Men at the beginning of the unit. The songs correlate to the themes of Friendship, Loneliness, and The American Dream.
Artists include The Beatles, John Mellencamp, Journey, Simon and Garfunkel, The Rembrandts, Queen, and more.
Use in conjunction with Of Mice and Men Themes through Song HANDOUT, also on my site. Provi
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7th - 11th
Song Lyric Lessons for Point of View — Bell Ringers — Analysis, Create Your Own
Teach students how to analyze literature with these engaging music activities!Inspired by Nancy Dean’s Voice Lessons, Song Lessons uses pop music (country, rock, pop, and folk) to teach the impact of literary devices in literature. A perfect bell ringer or Friday afternoon activity, this section asks students to analyze music lyrics through the literary device of Point of View. Each Song Lesson section contains the following:An introduction with lesson planning advice and the definitions of 5 li
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7th - 12th
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Vietnam War: Musical Reactions of the 60s and 70s
In this Unit, students examine how Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young’s “Ohio,” Merle Haggard’s “Okie From Muskogee” and Edwin Starr’s “War” articulated the divisive feelings Americans had about the war in the late 1960s and early 1970s. To supplement these songs, students will also watch clips from CNN Soundtracks and analyze polling data, news articles, and photographs from the era. By the end of the unit, students will know seminal events during the Vietnam War, including the Gulf of Tonkin Reso
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Vietnam War Unit
Spanish Folk Song Lyrics (Free)
This is a free collection of printable lyrics to traditional Spanish folk songs. These lyrics can be used as shared reading for young students in a bilingual classroom, or to teach vocabulary and grammar in a Spanish class.
To check out the music I use with these lyrics, click {here}.
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By: Learning At The Primary Pond with Ms. Lilypad
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PreK - 12th
Icebreaker: What makes you "roar"? Based on the lyrics Roar by Katy Perry
This is the perfect icebreaker to get to know what is important to your students, assess their comprehension, writing, and speaking skills, plus introduce them to Close Reading all while enjoying the popular song "Roar" by Katy Perry! Perfect for language arts, reading, social studies, debate, or speech classes! This icebreaker can be used to kick off a unit on argumentative writing and research or a debate!
This lesson includes:
-Teacher directions in the "Notes" section of the powerpoint
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6th - 12th
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Theme Review: Using Text and Song Lyrics
This slideshow can be used as an introduction to or review of theme and how to find the moral/life lesson of a story. It is split into 2 days of instruction, but you can also pick and choose parts to use to teach the review in one day. "Let Them Play" by Margot Theis Raven is a suggested read aloud to use. There are also slides with song lyrics and links to the videos of these song lyrics. Work with the students to teach, model, and practice how to find the theme of a story using both the book
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3rd - 6th
Figurative Language Slides - TSwift
These slides go through the most common examples of figurative language using Taylor Swift lyric examples. Each example includes a video edited to share just a piece of the song.Figurative Language included in this presentation:- Personification- Alliteration- Metaphor- Simile- Oxymoron- Hyperbole- Idiom
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4th - 8th
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