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I finished up my room and I am ready for those kids on Monday. Only 38 weeks until summer!!!
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Looks great! I like the Woodstock poster. Do you have a lesson plan around it?

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EllenW wrote:
Looks great! I like the Woodstock poster. Do you have a lesson plan around it?


I don't like it...

...I love it!

One of the teachers in my town's middle school has a guitar and amp somewhere in his classroom, or brings it in on occasion. The same for you?


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When my daughter was in 3rd grade, her art teacher held up a poster in the class and asked everyone if they knew who it was. Her lone hand raised, she replied "Jimi Hendrix". Gee, wonder how that happened? Good luck in the classroom. 8) Mike

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EllenW wrote:
Looks great! I like the Woodstock poster. Do you have a lesson plan around it?


Sometime around February (Black History Month), I will expand the lessons to include not just Civil Rights, but protest songs also. I'll usually include Neil Young (Southern Man, Alabama, Ohio), Lynyrd Skynyrd (Sweet Home Alabama), Patti Smith (Strange Messenger), The Temptations (Ball of Confusion), Bob Dylan (Masters of War, Medgar Evers), and other stuff that pops into my head. I will print off the lyrics and have them follow along, giving their interpretations of the song. They then are assigned to write a poem of song in a similar vein...that is always fun.

This year, being the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock, I'll try to fold that into the unit as part of the anti-war movement.

Anyone here have other suggestions for songs, let me know.

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mclmk8d wrote:
EllenW wrote:
Looks great! I like the Woodstock poster. Do you have a lesson plan around it?


Sometime around February (Black History Month), I will expand the lessons to include not just Civil Rights, but protest songs also. I'll usually include Neil Young (Southern Man, Alabama, Ohio), Lynyrd Skynyrd (Sweet Home Alabama), Patti Smith (Strange Messenger), The Temptations (Ball of Confusion), Bob Dylan (Masters of War, Medgar Evers), and other stuff that pops into my head. I will print off the lyrics and have them follow along, giving their interpretations of the song. They then are assigned to write a poem of song in a similar vein...that is always fun.

This year, being the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock, I'll try to fold that into the unit as part of the anti-war movement.

Anyone here have other suggestions for songs, let me know.


It's a teacher like that I'd kill for. I have Freshmen Orientation Monday. And mah school has a guitar course I'm taking

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mclmk8d wrote:
EllenW wrote:
Looks great! I like the Woodstock poster. Do you have a lesson plan around it?


Sometime around February (Black History Month), I will expand the lessons to include not just Civil Rights, but protest songs also. I'll usually include Neil Young (Southern Man, Alabama, Ohio), Lynyrd Skynyrd (Sweet Home Alabama), Patti Smith (Strange Messenger), The Temptations (Ball of Confusion), Bob Dylan (Masters of War, Medgar Evers), and other stuff that pops into my head. I will print off the lyrics and have them follow along, giving their interpretations of the song. They then are assigned to write a poem of song in a similar vein...that is always fun.

This year, being the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock, I'll try to fold that into the unit as part of the anti-war movement.

Anyone here have other suggestions for songs, let me know.


Would bringing Pete and The Weavers into the protest part of your lesson plan be going to far back?
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hendrixfan99 wrote:
EllenW wrote:
Looks great! I like the Woodstock poster. Do you have a lesson plan around it?


I don't like it...

...I love it!

One of the teachers in my town's middle school has a guitar and amp somewhere in his classroom, or brings it in on occasion. The same for you?


-The Screamin' J

No guitar at school...it might disappear!

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Even the stuff I play for them is going back too far, but then again, school is not a democracy, so they listen! Last year, I had a few rockers, but most listen to hip-hop and rap...I'll have to find some of those to play. Any suggestions?

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Looks great! I wish you were my teacher! :wink:

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Like many have said before me...

I wish you were my teacher. Looks like some quality learning mixed with some quality tunes!

Have a great year! 8)

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Wow if school was like this 33 years ago I would have graduated. GREAT
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Protest songs? Here are a few more that come to mind, with some that might appeal to the hip-hop fans in your class:

God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols)
What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)
The Message (Grand Master Flash)
911 is a Joke (Public Enemy)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron - has a good Wikipedia page)

And then one that sums up the attitude of my apathetic generation, "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

(..."What are you rebelling against, Generation X?" "What do you got?")

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mclmk8d wrote:
Even the stuff I play for them is going back too far, but then again, school is not a democracy, so they listen! Last year, I had a few rockers, but most listen to hip-hop and rap...I'll have to find some of those to play. Any suggestions?
Don't sink to theiir level. I hate my generations music and probably listen to that stuff that "goes too far back for them"

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