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African history songs for homeschool
Glory by John Legend and Common Lyric/Poetry Analysis
This file includes the lyrics to the song "Glory" from the movie Selma. It includes 14 short answer critical thinking questions. This is one of my favorite activities for a poetry unit, and ties in beautifully to the Civil Rights Movement and social justice.
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5th - 12th
NEW! Africa Geography — Africa Rift Valley: Breakin Up Is Hard (MUSIC INCLUDED)
A zip file reader is needed to open the file. This is a fun and musical way to discuss a tough subject on plate boundaries and how they affect the African Rift Valley along a divergent plate boundary where the Somali Plate and African Plate are drifting apart. In millions of years, this could cause not only East Africa to become a new small continent, but would create a new ocean. This lesson incorporates music as a learning tool. Students will enjoy the new rendition of the song Breaking Up is
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7th - 12th
Also included in: NEW! Africa Geography Bundle + 2 Freebies
NEW! Africa Geography — Africa Rift Valley: Breakin Up Is Hard To Do (SONG ONLY)
A zip file reader is needed to open the file. For the FULL VERSION of the lesson, click here.This is a fun and musical way to discuss a tough subject on plate boundaries around the African Rift Valley. It sits along a divergent boundary where the Somali Plate and African Plate are drifting apart. In millions of years, this could cause not only East Africa to become a new small continent, but would create a new ocean. This lesson incorporates music as a learning tool. Students will enjoy the new
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7th - 12th
Intro to AFRICAN CULTURE thru MUSIC-traditional & contemporary DISTANCE LEARNING
UPDATED with new music (2020) and the latest international hit single from SouthAfrica. My students always enjoy this lesson. What teen/pre-teen doesn’t love music?! It is a great way to expose your students to different cultures! Through my studies and travels abroad I learned to love music from my African friends, some of who were musicians themselves. In addition, I have extensively researched the internet to find the best music and music videos for middle/high school students. In the mus
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7th - 12th
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Teach Kids About Nigeria -- Let's Sing "Bale Ile" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Nigeria – Let's Sing 'Bale Ile'” is a world music lesson about Nigeria for kids that uses a simple sing-along and drum-along to introduce them to West African rhythms and culture. “Bale Ile” is a multi-rhythmic Nigerian song that honors the Yoruba tradition of a potential groom appealing to the parents of his intended bride for approval to be married. All Around This World's version is a rollicking example of “fuji,” the Yoruban genre that's an offshoot improvisational music pe
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K - 3rd
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Slavery Overview - 7 STATIONS with videos, song, poem, law, pictures, and texts
These stations are perfect for pre-reading for a text like Frederick Douglass or Harriet Jacobs. They could also be used as an activity to go in a unit on slavery. There is a 3-page worksheet that students record their answers for the stations on. It's a Word document, so if you need to change anything to meet your goals, you can. All you need to do for this is print or post online!There is a 1 page direction sheet for each station. You could pass folders around or post them around the room. Thr
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6th - 12th
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Teach Kids About Africa -- Let's Sing "Awa Yombei" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Africa – Let's Sing 'Awa Yombei'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to West African melodies and culture. “Awa Yombei” is a rather nonsensical yet catchy children’s song from The Gambia in West Africa in which the kids clap, sing and mimic each other while dancing. “Awa Yombei” is the name of girl who, in the course of the song, we follow in her marching, jumping and flying around. The original song is in Mandinka, tho
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Ethiopia -- Let's Sing "Nanu Ney" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Ethiopia – Let's Sing 'Nanu Ney'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along and dance-along to introduce them to Ethiopian melodies and culture. “Nanu Nanu Ney” is a classic Ethiopian pop song, which we recorded in the genre known as “Ethio-Jazz,” that we use in class as a way to introduce a shoulder-shaking dance called the Eskista. The original song is in Amharic. All Around This World is an only-of-its-kind global music and world cultures pr
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Africa -- Let's Sing "Nsa We" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Africa – Let's Sing 'Nsa We''” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to East African melodies and culture. “Nsa We” is a Bagandan song about the difficulties of farming, especially for girls. In class we put a positive spin on Ugandan farming and sing about how we all have to farm together to bring in a good harvest. The original song is in Luganda, though we also sing in English. All Around This World is an only-of-its-ki
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Africa -- Let's Chant "Cibula" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Africa – Let's Chant 'Cibula'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple chant and dance-along to introduce them to East African culture. “Cibula” is a chant from the Gogo region of the East African nation of Tanzania in which a cibula (a frog) hops (aye) back and forth, making the sound Matu! The chant is in Cigogo. All Around This World is an only-of-its-kind global music and world cultures program that introduces kids (0-9) and their grown-ups to the w
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K - 4th
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Teach Kids About South Africa by Singing "Thinantsha" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About South Africa – Let's Sing 'Thinantsha'” is a world music lesson about South Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along and dance-along to introduce them to South African melodies and culture. “Thinantsha” is an anti-Apartheid song from the 1960's that marked activists' defiance of the Afrikaner government and their determination to succeed in their struggle for equality. The anti-Apartheid forces certainly proved their persistence; Apartheid did not end until 1990. The origi
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Africa -- Let's Chant "Keenene" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Africa – Let's Chant 'Keenene'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along and hand play to introduce them to African food and culture. “Keenene” is a chant from Uganda that encourages kids to DEMAND DINNER, introducing them to a diversity of foods along the way. In our version we introduce Ugandan foods like matoke and posho, though teachers can use the song to meet the foods of any nation. The original song is in Luganda, though we also chant
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Africa by Singing "Diarra Loro Lora" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Africa – Let's Sing 'Diarra Loro Lora'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to West African melodies and culture. “Diarra Loro Lora” is a children's song from Burkina Faso about a marketplace where the lion, the hyena and other animals reign supreme. When we sing it we pretend to be all sorts of African animals...fun! The original song is in Dioula, though we also sing it in English. All Around This World is an only-of-i
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Morocco -- Let's Sing "Arsomo Baba" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Morocco – Let's Sing 'Arsomo Baba'” is a world music lesson about Morocco for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to North African rhythms and culture. “Arsomo Baba” is a fun song from Morocco about children drawing/painting pictures of their parents in multiple colors. All Around This World recorded the song using the Egyptian Baladi rhythm, which is one of the most common rhythms musicians play to accompany belly dancing. The original is in Arabic, though we
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K - 3rd
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SANIBONANI
SANIBONANI
Unison w/Optional Percussion & Hand Claps
"Good afternoon!" "Good Day!" That how you are greeted by members of the African Zulu tribe.
Syncopated accompaniment supports the musical greetings in the text.
Great song for an ice breaker.
Add maracas, shekere, or other shakers for an authentic sound.
Hand claps add to the rhythmic interest, but any instrument may be substituted for hand claps such as rhythm sticks, tambourine, wood block, etc.
Action cues are included.
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1st - 8th
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Teach Kids About Africa -- Let's Sing "A Hiyeni" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Africa – Let's Sing 'A Hiyeni'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to African melodies and culture. “A Hiyeni” is a fun song from Mozambique about everyone working together to build a communal village that originated in the days of the East African nation's struggle to become independent from the Portuguese. The original song is in Shangana, though we also sing it in English. All Around This World is an only-of-its-kind
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Africa -- Let's Sing "Tsy Akeo" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Africa – Let's Sing 'Tsy Akeo'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along and dance-along to introduce them to African melodies and culture. “Tsy Akeo” is a groovy song from Madagascar about the importance of love. When we sing it we make hand motions to act like an “aye aye,” which is a lemur found in Madagascar that has the ears of a bat, the teeth of a rat and a long middle finger that it taps on tree trunks to locate insects, which it then
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Zimbabwe -- Let's Sing "Ha Ha Ha" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Zimbabwe – Let's Sing 'Ha Ha Ha'” is a world music lesson about Zimbabwe for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to African melodies and culture. “Ha Ha Ha” is a light and lilting love song in the ’50s by Zimbabwean highlife pioneer, George Sibanda, who is widely agreed to be the first sub-Saharan African music star. When we sing it we may accompany ourselves with egg shakers, though we could also just use our hands and pretend. The original song is in Nedebele
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Africa -- Let's Sing "Kikalama" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Africa– Let's Sing 'Kikalama'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to African melodies and culture. “Kikalama” is a simple song from the West African nation of Guinea about marriage, love and having the confidence to be who you are. When we sing “Kikalama” we turn it into a fun hand play that uses the element of surprise. The original song is in Malinke and Susu, though we also sing in English. All Around This World is a
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About South Africa -- Let's Sing "Tulo Tulo" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About South Africa – Let's Sing 'Tulu Tulo'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to South African melodies and culture. “Tulo Tulo” is a lullaby from Uganda that inspires kids to soar through the starry night sky. The original song is in Luganda, though we also sing in English. All Around This World is an only-of-its-kind global music and world cultures program that introduces kids (0-9) and their grown-ups to the world using
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About South Africa by Singing "He Motsoala" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About South Africa By Singing 'He Motsoala'” is a world music lesson about South Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to Southern African melodies and culture. “He Motsoala” is a traditional South African song that Pete Seeger and the Song Swappers recorded for their collection of Bantu Choral Songs. Seeger’s version of “He Motsoala” is about a mother who travels to the South African city of Pretoria to buy a license for the wedding of her daughter. The ori
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Algeria -- Let's Sing "Atas Atas" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Algeria – Let's Sing 'Atas Atas'” is a world music lesson about Algeria for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to North African melodies and culture. “Atas Atas” is a lullaby from Algeria meant for a parent to sing to a child while putting her to sleep, envisioning a day when the child is grown and needs to leave to live her own life, reassuring her that she’ll always have a home with the family. The original song is in the Berber language of Kabilye, though w
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Zimbabwe -- Let's Sing "Wai Bamba" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Zimbabwe – Let's Sing 'Wai Bamba'” is a world music lesson about Zimbabwe for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to African melodies and culture. “Wai Bamba” is a Zimbabwean wedding song that all in attendance sing in repetition, each one adding his or her own part to the chorus. The words translate, more or less, to “He’s got her, she’s got him.” The original song is in Shona.All Around This World is an only-of-its-kind global music and world cultures program
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K - 3rd
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Teach Kids About Africa -- Let's Sing "Kipenzi Changu" -- All Around This World
“Teach Kids About Africa – Let's Sing 'Kipenzi Changu'” is a world music lesson about Africa for kids that uses a simple sing-along to introduce them to East African melodies and culture. “Kipenzi Changu” wedding/marriage song from Kenya, in the course of which the groom consoles a sobbing bride by promising to be faithful forever and to carry them through all of life’s hardships. The original song is in Swahili, though we also sing in English. All Around This World is an only-of-its-kind global
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K - 3rd
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