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High school oral communication creative writing songs
Analyzing Fahrenheit 451 Through Music Unit - 20+ Songs, Analysis Activities
What better way to connect students with literature than through the music they love? In this novel study for Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, students will be able to analyze each part of the novel by listening to, annotating, explaining, and presenting different songs that closely correlate with the novel on many levels. Beat the boredom of study guides and chapter quizzes, and instead engage your students through music to help them analyze—and appreciate—this classic Bradbury work.This engagin
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8th - 11th
Songs to teach The 6 Traits of Writing
This is a collection of six songs that I developed to help my students understand the 6 Traits of Writing. These songs will help your students understand Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Voice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. You may also print out each page and create a poster to display in your classroom.
Songs to teach The 6 Traits of Writing by Lindsay Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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PreK - 12th
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Write Your Own Song (Music Appreciation)
This assignment has students use their creativity, experience, and imagination to write their own basic song. They will learn about how a generic song is structured then use an easy-to-follow formula to come up with their own song. The assignment is broken into 3 different steps that can all be put together to complete a generic song that also rhymes! Once the worksheet is completed, students and/or the teacher can sing through them using karaoke backtracks online or a live piano/guitar. It is s
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4th - 12th
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SUFISM( MYSTIC POETRY/RELIGIOUS POETRY) : (COLLECTION OF TWENTY SUFI POETS)
Dear Readers:This book revolves around my personal favorite collection of inspirational verses contributed by Arabic, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi and Pashtun Sufi poets, belonging to diverse cultural and geographical traditions. In order to pursue the authentic translations of the aforementioned verses, the contributions made by scholars and academics like Vraje Abramia, Daniel Karlin, Margaret Smith, A.J. Arberry, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, Lochan Singh Buxi, Harjeet Singh Gill, Coleman Barks,
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10th - 11th, Higher Education
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DINAMIC & INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE LYRIC SONGS WITH BRUNO MARS
This pack contains two wonderful lyric activities of Bruno Mars (Talking to the moon and Count on me) for ESL students with several educational and dynamic activities that will help them engage in poetical expressions, lexical understanding and critical thinking (Listening skills, vocabulary acquisition, antonym words, sentence structuring, word search games, riddles, etc.) These lyrics activities come with answer key. Undoubtedly, teaching lyrics in schools not only enhances language and analy
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Lyrical Analysis of Taylor Swift's "Teenage Love Triangle" (PDF & Digital)
This lyrical analysis assignment requires students to analyze the songs Betty, August, and Cardigan from Taylor Swift's album Folklore. Swift has stated that there are three songs on the album that are connected by telling the story of a teenage love triangle from three different perspectives at different times in their lives. Students will analyze these three songs and make interpretations to determine which song is told from Betty, James, and the other woman's perspective. The resource include
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9th - 12th
Bob Dylan: Music as Poetry with "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
This is a wonderful way to introduce the blurred lines between genres, as well as a great way to engage in the learning process—for all students of all ages love music. They may be reluctant poets, but once the connection is made that some songs are indeed poetry (or, heaven forbid—the acronym R.A.P. stands for Rhythmic American Poetry!), the sky is the limit for a renewed appreciation for poetry. This can be a nice addition to any poetry unit, or, it stands alone as an extension activity, a c
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6th - 12th
Christmas Ode Writing Activity — Poem and Creative Writing
This activity requires students to read and analyze the 1824 song "O Christmas Tree" and learn about the ode poem. Then you'll have your students write their own ode! Lastly, take students' poetry writing to the next level by having them perform or illustrate their odes. This activity is a simple and silly way to get students thinking creatively before the holidays. It also makes for a fun display of student work!Included in this product:Powerpoint presentation with definitions of Ode and academ
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5th - 12th
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Figurative Language Task Cards, Song Lyrics, Poetry, Valentine's Day
Want to get your students engaged in finding figurative language? Try these task cards that use lyrics from popular love songs!
Each of these 40 task cards included an excerpt of a popular love song (from many genres - pop, country, rock, etc.). In the lyrics is an example of figurative language. Use to have students identify and explain each example, or as a writing prompt for creative writing practice.
Students love task cards! Check out some of my other sets:
Reading Response Task Card
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7th - 12th
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Continents & Oceans Facts
This is a PDF that includes facts about the 7 continents and 4 major oceans that I used with my students to help them learn about both topics. A fun activity my students used these facts for was creating songs, raps, poems, cheers, and posters in small groups about the continents and/or oceans and presenting them to their class.
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2nd - 12th
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A Rap Song for Teaching Public Speaking
"Public Speaking" teaches presentation skills and how to give a speech. The song pack includes four versions of the song, lyrics, worksheets, and answer keys.
Song preview: http://soundcloud.com/educationalrap/sets/public-speaking
The song is useful for persuasive speech, toastmasters, oral classroom reporting, and for getting over a fear of public speaking by offering simple public speaking tips. Teachers have also used it for teaching related topics, such as Ancient Greece, where public ora
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6th - 9th
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kendrick lamar -song analysis and creative rap challenge 'Crown'
This is a song lyrics analysis task and creative rap writing challenge based on the song 'Crown' by Kendrick Lamar. The song lyrics are 100% clean. Song lyrics are not part of the product due to copyright, but they can be simply downloaded. All links are in the product. The resource contains the following:A brainstorm task exploring the connotations of 'crown'A predictive task based on listening to the instrumentalA first listening to the song9 questions analysing possible meanings in the song t
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Rap Music for the English Language Arts Classroom - growing bundle
SONG KIT: license for 30 kids, sheet music, lyrics, accompaniment track
Reward your students for exceptional behavior with this awesome full band studio recording of our Einstein song. Students can now take the Einstein song home to share with parents and siblings! Having a personal Einstein music track at home means students can now practice ahead and be well prepared for music class and choir performances. How sweet is that? Kids can sing the Einstein song whenever their hearts desire!
This song kit was created after we received oodles of requests from teacher
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1st - 9th
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Figurative Language in "Karma" by Taylor Swift
In this assignment. Students annotate Taylor Swift's "Karma", looking for figurative language (metaphor, personification, simile, and idiom). Students then write their own figurative language for karma. This comes with the handout and answer key. It's in google docs, so you can edit it how you want. I use this with my continuation high school students and they enjoy it.
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7th - 10th
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The Alchemist Final Project
The Alchemist Final ProjectThis final project is the culmination of a unit surrounding The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It requires students to write creatively, fulfilling many writing standards, as they write both an original narrative as well as song lyrics. While it is based on The Alchemist, it could be edited to be a stand-alone assignment/project or at the end of reading any creative text(s). This document includes the assignment as well as the grading rubric(s).
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: The Alchemist Unit Bundle
Call and Response | RÉPLICAS | for the Secondary Spanish Classroom
We are very excited to make the Call and Response | Réplicas Strategy available to the Spanish secondary classroom to build energetic and positive engagement. The tradition of Call & Response can be found in churches, in concerts, in the military, in sports events and in other venues where people gather. In the classroom, this strategy allows students to encourage and support their peers while staying in the target language. Besides the benefit of managing your classroom, the visual Répli
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: ¡PAKETÓN! agosto | Daily Slides | Visuals | Vocabulary | Culture
Mutual Respect Pop Song
This song addresses tolerance and respect for another's point of view. Do you believe the world is flat?
Lyrics (included) make a wonderful writing prompt. Ideas presented lead to critical thinking and meaningful classroom discussions. False news conversations will never be the same!
This powerful and haunting studio recording also makes a perfect addition to any classroom playlist.
Music Teachers:
This song has been a popular performance choice with singing students. It is easy to perform
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4th - 12th
Song Lyric Poetry Project
I love this activity because it is a great way to work music into my ELA classroom, and the students are always very motivated and engaged.
This powerpoint presentation has timers, embedded videos, images, and directions for up to one week of instruction. There is also a QR code to a Quizlet set of poetry vocabulary.
The presentation is focused on identifying figurative language, and manipulating lines of songs to include specific figurative language.
If this powerpoint is posted to Google C
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5th - 9th
Ça va bien aller - Écriture d'une chanson engagée
En ce temps de pandémie, j'utilise La Bolduc et Grand Corps Malade comme amorce pour proposer un atelier d'écriture aux élèves : écrire une chanson engagée en lien avec la Covid-19. Cet atelier permet à l'élève de réinvestir certaines notions sur l'argumentation, le lexique et la poésie tout en laissant une grande place à la créativité des élèves.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Figurative Language in Love Songs (good for Valentine's Day) -- with KEY
Identify figurative language in love song lyrics. Good for a Valentine's Day activity.Key included.
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6th - 9th
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Carolina by Parmalee Figurative Language Activity
Use country band Parmalee's popular song "Carolina" to teach figurative language. You can decide how many and which devices you'd like your students to find.
Those I've pointed out in this exercise include:
alliteration, anaphora, simile,hyperbole,onomatopoeia, and rhyme.
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7th - 12th
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English language/ literacy skills using songwriting
Educational consultancy RyJoLC has recently developed a new range of resources, which introduce and illustrate various parts of English language through songwriting.
This is a new, engaging and captivating way to teach the English language, so as for students to not simply learn about various devices through analysis of other texts, but rather to engage with these and learn their function firsthand. The first of these resources, available for free here, uses the structure of a song to introduc
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1st - 12th
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