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Common Core W.6.1 songs
"Christmas Lights" A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study Featuring Coldplay
Join your kids in the holiday merriment through this fun, engaging, meaningful unit of study on a unique holiday song, "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay. Students will work to analyze lyrics, build connections, explore figurative language, and engage in a collaborative dialogue through Socratic seminar. Your students will build reading comprehension, language, speaking, listening and writing skills through this unit and build classroom community through collaboration as well!
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday Song Lyric Analysis
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!
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-Teacher directions in the "Notes" section of the powerpoint
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6th - 12th
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"Glorious"- A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study
You know your middle school kids are singing the song already...Why not engage them in meaningful analysis and conversation, too? This unit of study features the hit by rapper Macklemore, focusing on the beauty of a new day and the power of a positive mindset. Students will deepen reading comprehension and fluency through the study of these lyrics. Activities include vocabulary enrichment, lyric analysis and journal writing prompts, partner work, and the opportunity for students to write a narra
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
Holiday Song Lyric Analysis
Engage your students during the trickiest of seasons through these creative units of study! Your 4th-8th grade students will have opportunities to build reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking and listening skills through this compilation of resources.These units of study include: ♪copies of song lyrics for student and teacher use♪Sketch to stretch invitations♪Vocabulary enrichment activities♪Building Background nonfiction reading and written responses♪Student writing prompts♪Text dependen
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4th - 8th
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"To Love Them, To Leave Them" A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study
Your middle school students' hearts will appreciate this unit of study, featuring popular songs "Yours" by Russell Dickerson and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift! Activities include developing mental pictures, lyric analysis, opinion and narrative writings, text-to-text and text-to-self connection building, figurative language study, background study of song inspiration, authors' purpose writing, and collaborative conversation through Socratic seminar. The stage will be
Grammy Awards Music and SEL Lesson
This is a great multi-day activity for after a concert, before a break, for a substitute teacher activity, or just to get to know your students better (SEL and Cultural Relevance!). The Grammy Awards are coming February 5, and this is a great opportunity for your students to check out a variety of musical styles. I have had high engagement with this activity both in person and remote. You will receive a PDF with links to Canva slides which you can present, or download your own template and edit.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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