Our Hip Hop Unit continues in 3rd-5th grade.Students took notes on the history of hip-hop. We then began some lyrical Analysis. Students were supposed to listen and read lyrics to a rap song. After listening we discussed meaning of lyrics both literally and figuratively. Students chose from five songs: Mr. Wendel-Arrested Development, Keep Your Head Up-Tupac Shakur, Tha Crossroads-Bone Thugs N Harmony, Colors-Ice-T, and Gangastas Paradise-Coolio
Here is the Smartboard lesson: RapLyrics.notebook
ALL LYRICS DO NOT CONTAIN PROFANITY!!
The point of this excercise was to show how students are not thinking about the lyrics and only listen to the "beat." Many students were mindlessly saying the lyrics. Some classes began to view the songs in a whole different way after we took away the music. Hopefully, students and parents will begin to be more alert when buying their music.
Kingergarten began learning Chatter With the Angels. 1st-2nd grades began learning the song Zudio and the movements with the song.
No comments:
Post a Comment