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Historical Accounts of Slavery and Slave Music

By Taylor Taughts

Four separate historical documents and primary sources are provided for student analysis. This item provides only the articles; comprehension and discussion questions for students after reading each document are included as part of the slideshow

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Music, Black History Month

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Research, Thematic Unit Plans, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RI.8.3, RI.8.8, RI.8.9, RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.4, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.8, RH.6-8.9

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Banjo Articles - First Accounts in N. America (3 primary sources for analysis)

By Taylor Taughts

The first account of the banjo appearing in North America comes from a 1687 manuscript describing slaves in Jamaica. Students will read 3 different primary sources to answer 8 comprehension questions. This item contains the articles only; the

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Music, Black History Month

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Research, Thematic Unit Plans, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.4, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.8

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RI8.7 Protest Song Analysis: Fortunate Son (Vietnam Era Music)

By Taylor Taughts

The lyrics of the song Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival are presented for students to analyze. Provide students with this worksheet so that they can read (and follow along) while they listen to the song. The more background information

Subjects:

Reading, Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Songs

CCSS:

RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.6, RI.8.7, RH.9-10.1, RH.9-10.2, RH.9-10.4

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RI8.3 - 9/11 Song Comparison Graphic Organizer (Country Music + September 11th)

By Taylor Taughts

On September 11th, 2001, the US experienced the deadliest terrorist attack in its history...and the students sitting in our classrooms weren't even born yet! This event is our moment in history when everyone remembers where they were on that

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Songs, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.3, RI.8.4, RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.4, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.8

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Cold War Berlin: Song Comparison Graphic Organizer (3 songs; lyrics included)

By Taylor Taughts

The Essential Question for this unit is: How did music help people resist what the Berlin Wall symbolized? Students will analyze 3 songs from the 1980s released as both a response and in resistance to the wall put up in Cold War Berlin. The songs

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Songs, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.6, RI.8.7, RH.9-10.1, RH.9-10.2, RH.9-10.4, RH.9-10.6, RH.9-10.9

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1960s Song Analysis Listening Centers - Surf Sounds feat. The Beach Boys

By Taylor Taughts

This Station Rotation Activity is meant to be paired with and part of a larger unit slideshow called The Suburbanization of Postwar America. Students will use this worksheet to rotate through 4 listening stations (the media is provided in the

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Songs

CCSS:

W.8.4, W.8.7, W.8.8, W.8.10, SL.8.1, SL.8.1a, SL.8.1c, SL.8.1d, RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.7

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The History of Black Protest Songs - Graphic Organizer to Accompany PowerPoint

By Taylor Taughts

The murders of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner are presented to students. A PowerPoint is provided in a bundle or sold separately that provides this information. Students are required to record 5-10 facts in each column while reading.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Music, Black History Month

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.7, L.8.4a, L.8.5, L.8.5a, RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.4...

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RI8.3: 9/11 - Country Music Response

By Taylor Taughts

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans, Songs

CCSS:

RI.8.3, RI.8.4, RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.4, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.8

$4.50

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Protest Songs (Research Project w/ Outline and Rubric) Student Presentations

By Taylor Taughts

Analyzing popular media and examining a song for its message is the purpose of this research project. Everyone loves music - which is why every one of your students will love this project. Students are asked to choose one song about social

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Projects, Outlines, Rubrics

CCSS:

RI.8.3, RI.8.4, W.6.7, W.7.7, W.8.6, W.8.7, W.8.8

$5.00

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Cold War Berlin: Musical Resistance Unit

By Taylor Taughts

The Cold War, especially the erection of the Berlin Wall, affected the music, fashion, and politics of Germany, as well as the United States. This Unit asks students an Essential Question: How did music help people resist what the Berlin Wall

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans, Songs

CCSS:

RH.9-10.1, RH.9-10.2, RH.9-10.3, RH.9-10.7, RH.9-10.9

$8.98 $6.29

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The Banjo and its Relationship to Slavery (slides, videos, music, questions)

By Taylor Taughts

The mini-lessons on these slides trace the history of the American banjo - students will go back to its African roots, wade through its complicated relationship with slavery, and discuss the irony of today's generalizations of "who" plays the banjo.

Subjects:

Music, Black History Month, Informational Text

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.3, RH.6-8.4, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.8, RH.6-8.9

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Cold War Berlin: Musical Resistance (slides, videos, questions, activities)

By Taylor Taughts

Subjects:

English Language Arts, World History, Music

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Songs, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RH.9-10.1, RH.9-10.2, RH.9-10.3, RH.9-10.4, RH.9-10.6

$5.99

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Vietnam War: Musical Reactions of the 60s and 70s

By Taylor Taughts

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

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Music, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans, Songs

CCSS:

RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.6, RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.4, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.8

$7.50

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60s Girl Groups Unit - Early Feminism and Breaking Away from Traditional Roles

By Taylor Taughts

The Essential Question for students is: Were the Girl Groups of the early 1960s voices of female empowerment or reflections of traditional female roles? In this lesson, students will evaluate what the emergence of the Girl Groups said about the

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Music, Women's History Month

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans, Songs

CCSS:

W.8.1, SL.8.1, SL.8.1a, SL.8.1b, RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.3, RH.6-8.4, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.8

$13.74 $9.62

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The History of Black Protest Songs - from Billie Holiday to Kendrick Lamar

By Taylor Taughts

These activities are perfect for Black History Month or anytime of the year in either a history or English classroom. Provided is a PowerPoint that can be shared with students to have on their own screens if you are a 1:1 technology classroom, or

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Music, Black History Month

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Songs, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.7, SL.8.1, SL.8.1d

$9.99

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Banjo Unit - Journey from Africa to N. America; Relationship to Slavery

By Taylor Taughts

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Music, Black History Month

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.3, RH.6-8.4, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.8, RH.6-8.9

$16.97 $11.88

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1950s Postwar America UNIT (the rise of suburbs, TV, Cars, and Surf Culture)

By Taylor Taughts

After WWII, the country’s landscape was changing, in ways that would have a major impact on American life and culture, and, certainly, on the worlds of young people. To begin this lesson, students will analyze the rise of the suburbs, and the ways

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans, Songs

$28.73 $20.11

$18.10

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Protest Song Project - Example, Research, Outline, and Rubric

By Taylor Taughts

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Rubrics

CCSS:

W.8.7, SL.8.1, SL.8.1a, SL.8.4, SL.8.5, SL.8.6

$25.96

$20.77

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Using Popular Music to Teach History - Thematic Units or a

By Taylor Taughts

The materials in this bundle could easily be Units for a new HISTORY centered elective at your school. This program relies heavily on the music of the time period to take students on an eccentric tour through World History. I strongly believe that

Subjects:

English Language Arts, World History, Music

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Elective Course Proposals, Songs

$178.21

$124.75

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Substitute teacher in CCSD (Las Vegas) for 1 year then worked at Fertitta Middle School for 15 years as a 7th grade Language Arts teacher for 10 of those years then in 6th grade English (writing only) for 3 years and now currently as an 8th grade Language Arts teacher for 2 years - I also have experience with an 8th grade Credit Retrieval course teaching English 7, math 7, and history 7 using Canvas for 3 years

MY TEACHING STYLE

Yet to be added

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Heart of Education Award and CCSD Rave Review

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Washington State University - Bachelor's degree in English Education then Touro University - Master's degree in School Administration

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Yet to be added

GRADES

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, Specialty, Science, Social Studies, Government, U.S. History, European History, World History, Arts & Music, Graphic Arts, Music, Computer Science, Career and Technical Education, Health, ELA Test Prep, Life Skills, Religion, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, School Counseling, Psychology, Character Education, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Poetry, Dance, Black History Month, For All Subjects, Informational Text, Vocational Education, Coaching, End of Year, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community