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Music Common Core RL.8.4 resources
"Thriller": Citing Textual Evidence, Conflict, Theme and Video Analysis
Just in time for Halloween, students will love interacting with Michael Jackson's classic "Thriller" as they:
•Make inferences from the text and cite textual evidence to support inferences.
•Analyze the development of theme through the analysis of plot, setting, characters, and conflict.
•Compare and contrast the lyrics and video adaption of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.7
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6th - 9th
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CHRISTMAS SONG ANALYSIS [ASSIGNMENTS & PROJECTS] [MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL EDITION]
Are you stumped about what to do with students for the week(s) prior to the Winter Break? Don't worry about it! Let them analyze Christmas/Holiday music! The Christmas Song Analysis& Projects product for middle and high schoolers dispels the end of year chaos for you and adds excitement for them. This product has 6 PROJECTS and assignments, 17 songs with videos, lyrics provided to display on your Promethean OR for annotations, worksheets for the songs in the product, and a general set of que
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: THE CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY BUNDLE
DEAR EVAN HANSEN | MUSICAL THEATER AS LITERATURE
I am a huge Dear Evan Hansen fangirl, and so many of my students are too! The writing is brilliant and offers so many opportunities to meet ELA standards in creative and engaging ways. This week-long unit includes background materials, activities and links for:Anybody Have a Map?Waving Through a WindowRequiemYou Will Be FoundStudent will practice characterization, metaphor, using text-based evidence to support claims, literary analysis, and essay writing. For a full explanation of how to use eac
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8th - 12th
The Hate U Give and Songs of Protest Unit
Looking for high engagement independent and collaborative activities to do with your middle and high school students while reading The Hate U Give? This unit is designed to examine the use of protest songs during the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement and how they connect to the novel. By incorporating protest songs into your curriculum, you'll create a dynamic learning experience that amplifies the novel's messages, engages your students, and encourages critical thinking.
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8th - 12th
BUNDLE Disney's Encanto STAAR Comprehension | PDF Google Forms & Task Cards |
Are you looking for new and fun ways to review for STAAR? Have you considered introducing STAAR/Standardized test prep with music? This bundle includes all four sets of 10 question assessment uses Encanto's songs "What Else Can I do?" "We Don't Talk About Bruno" "Surface Pressure" and "Family Madrigal" as the text, and exposes students to literature question stems which are STAAR/CCSS aligned from previous years' assessments. The assessments focus on a variety of skills such as inferencing, summ
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4th - 7th
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Figurative Language in Music
Figurative language can be a difficult topic to teach, but when you combine it with popular songs it makes learning fun. This resource contains a three-page worksheet with over 20 examples of figurative language found in songs by Panic! At The Disco, Fall Out Boy, Imagine Dragons, The Score, Shawn Mendes, Marshmello, 5 Seconds of Summer... and more! The worksheet aligns to a YouTube video I created and can be used in conjunction with the video or separately. There is also a bonus section that in
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5th - 8th
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Analyzing Song Lyrics - Figurative Language Activity (Digital)
Analyzing Song LyricsHelp your middle school students understand the purpose of figurative language with this fun, engaging, and relevant activity.Students pick their favorite songs and analyze the figurative language in the lyrics with four digital activities.Download Includes:Google Slides Activity Sheets: 4 activity sheets that will guide students as they analyze lyrics for meaning, purpose, mood and tone.Activity 1: Students brainstorm school appropriate songs. Activity 2: Students analyze f
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6th - 8th
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THE LOVE SONG ANALYSIS [ASSIGNMENTS & PROJECTS] [MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL EDITION]
Are you stumped about what to do with your students for Valentine's Day? Don't worry about it! Let them analyze LOVE songs! The LOVE Song Analysis& Projects RESOURCE for middle and high schoolers can be used for one day, one week, or up to a month or unit of love and adds excitement for them, even if they don't have a "boo" or "bae." This EDITABLE resource has 9 PROJECTS and assignments, a whopping 25 popular love songs with videos, lyrics provided to display on your Promethean OR for annota
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6th - 12th
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Theater Arts Comical Play Script Unit | Abdullahs Gold Middle Eastern Folk Tale
Part of a Bundle This engaging, comical unit and play (30 pages in length) with roles for 20+ students is suitable for students whether Social Studies class studying the country of India, Pakistan or used in a drama class. Students strengthen their reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. In addition, a teacher could use this unit with students who are distance learning. #DistanceLearningTPTBased on the Hindu folk tale by the
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5th - 6th
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Literary Analysis & Close Reading: Reflections of America Through Music
Students love music! Meet the needs of your auditory learners while also completing literary analysis and close reading for American Literature. With this lesson and activity, students listen to songs that reflect various ideas about America. Then they read and annotate the song lyrics, analyzing them as poems. When completing this lesson, the teacher plays clips of classic songs from different genres and time periods. It’s strongly recommended that the teacher preview the lyrics to ensure th
Taylor Swift Literary Poetic Devices Scavenger Hunt Song Analysis Activity
This fully editable lesson plan and packet for all of your middle school Swifties! Use this lesson to talk about the power of music and the impact of literary and poetic devices in songs -- specifically Taylor Swift songs. Use this lesson to teach your students about the different ways that songwriters use poetic devices to add depth and emotion to their songs. Have your students learn or review various poetic and literary devices, then pick a few songs for your students to read (13 ready-to-pri
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6th - 9th
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Taylor Swift Similes Metaphors Valentines Day Love Songs Middle School Fun Swift
This fully editable lesson plan and packet for all of your middle school Swifties and perfect for Valentine's Day! Use this lesson to define or review similes and metaphors and talk about the power of music -- specifically Taylor Swift songs. Use this lesson to teach your students about the different ways that songwriters use similes and metaphors to add depth and emotion to their songs. Introduce similes and metaphors to your class through the Do Now and Notes, and then have students participat
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5th - 8th
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Taylor Swift Figurative Language Song Analysis Similes Metaphors Lesson Activity
This fully editable lesson plan and packet for all of your middle school Swifties! Use this lesson to talk about the power of music and the impact of figurative language in songs -- specifically Taylor Swift songs. Use this lesson to teach your students about the different ways that songwriters use figurative language to add depth and emotion to their songs. Pick a few songs for your students to read, and teach your students how songwriters use figurative language (similes, metaphors, personific
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5th - 8th
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Rocket Man & Space Oddity
Compare and contrast the Elton John and David Bowie songs as prep for reading the short story "Rocket Man" by Ray Bradbury. There are questions and links to background information and the text. A link to the Google Slides is located on this PDF version. Slide 10 is a drag and drop activity.
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6th - 9th
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Song Lyric Analysis For Figurative Language Mixed Melodies Grades 5-8
This mini-lesson PowerPoint will allow your students to identify different types of figurative language from a catchy pop and country songs. Animations help both the teacher and the student identify the words in the lyrics that are figurative and the student is prompted to explain the meaning. This lesson is common core aligned and just plain, old-fashioned fun!
This activity works well after an initial lesson on figurative language or review.
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5th - 8th
Literacy Through Lyrics- Volume 1
♪An awesome, bundled collection of complete units of study centered around popular, culturally relevant song lyrics that will motivate and inspire you and your students year round!♪You will adore this approach to coaching critical literacy skills in your students- It will be the refresh button you need to make learning together meaningful and truly engaging!♪Because teaching is supposed to be fun and who doesn't love a good soundtrack to sing (and study☺) together in the process?Have fun!Liz☺♥♪P
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3rd - 8th
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"High Hopes"- An ELA Unit of Study
Set the inspirational stage for your middle school students to analyze the awesome song lyrics "High Hopes," by Panic! At the Disco☺Your students will build incredible literacy skills through meaningful curriculum and conversation with a unit you will adore teaching☺This unit plan includes-ELA StandardsSong Lyrics for Student/Teacher UseClose Reading VisualVocabulary BuildingFigurative Language AnalysisWritten Reflection InvitationsCreative Outlets for Text ConnectionsSocratic Seminar Explanatio
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
"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
Figurative Language Bundle
Save money by purchasing the bundle. This set includes:
* Figurative Language Matching 3-Part Cards
* Figurative Language Matching 2-Part Cards with excerpts from literature
* Idioms Matching
* Poem Cards and Task Cards
* Holiday Poem Cards and Task Cards
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3rd - 10th
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Song Study: Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror" (Digital Download)
A song study serves various purposes. This particular song study features Michael Jackson’s “Man In the Mirror.” In the world of this popular song, students are able to explore and analyze aspects of identity and critical social issues such as homelessness. Students are also able to dissect and analyze the use of literary elements in the song lyrics as well. Note: This song study is intended for secondary ELA classrooms, but it can most certainly be used across disciplines.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
DIGITAL Figurative Language Song Analysis
Use this Google Slides graphic organizer to help your students analyze figurative language in a song! Students can either pick their own song to analyze or choose from five music videos included in the slides (school appropriate, with lyrics).Students will record the figurative language from the song, drag and drop the correct figurative language term, and explain the author's meaning.
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5th - 12th
Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
Bring creativity and collaboration to your ELA lesson plans through this awesome compilation of resources♪ Certain to spark something new and exciting within your students as they delve into popular song lyrics and build reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking, and listening skills with these engaging lesson plans and units of study☺This resource includes:♪Copies of song lyrics for teacher and student use♪Reflective writing prompts♪Text dependent analysis writing♪Building background nonfic
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4th - 8th
Hip Hop Structure
Hip hop structure lesson for English Grade 6, 7 and 8. These resources are designed for an extra curricular club that helps to engage students in lyrics and therefore poetry. In this lesson we explore how structure in lyrics can engage listeners/audiences, and discuss what effects they can have, including the use of verses and refrains. Could be used for before/lunchtime/after school clubs or edited to be used for lessons on poetry and figurative language. Leave a review and we’ll send you a
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Hip Hop Poetry English
"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
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