This interdisciplinary reference guide will interest and engage both teachers and students as it examines the origins and inspiration for contemporary song lyrics. This media literacy resource will facilitate meaningful classroom discussions, promote critical thinking, and stimulate further inquiry. The variety of primary and secondary sources referenced in this multimedia guide will enable teachers to differentiate instruction while preparing students for constructed response and document based questions.
Popular songs can be used in a classroom setting to illuminate a particular theme or topic leading students to new insights and understandings. Songs create an emotional hook in the classroom environment and may be used as a means to introduce visual art, poetry, literature, historic documents, film, photographs, and other primary sources.
In each song entry you will find information including artists' commentary, discussion of corresponding songs, referenced and related works for study and comparison, music and lyric resources, discography, examples of student work and sample constructed response classroom activities.
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guide by clicking on each song title below:
In My Life* (ESL learning activity)
* Entries created and submitted by Christopher Chase
Chase / M.U.S.I.C., Inc. Publications ©2004 -2007