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"Things that make you go hmm?" Song lyrics can be nonsensical, but they can also be powerful conduits to inspire social change...or at least social inquiry. Challenge the social awareness and critical consciousness of your students with this Music / Language Inquiry Unit. This Inquiry Unit contains 6 lessons and graphic organizers that create an opportunity for students to explore the many ways in which contemporary song lyrics impact our society by asking listeners to think about a variety of

These lesson plans and activities provided the framework for students to analyze songs for the powerful messages that are contained within the lyrics. As the students work in groups to analyze a variety of song lyrics, they will also be practicing the use of a variety of "Monitoring Comprehension" reading strategies (class anchor included). As well, students will have the opportunity to self and peer evaluate their participation and contribution during the group work stage using the attached eva

This is an exciting learning task whereby students get the opportunity to transform the powerful words in their written poetry into a Spoken Word Media piece. Included here is the assignment sheet and the assessment checklist for you to use to evaluate your students. I guided my students to my classroom blog to review the samples that we looked at in class earlier in the term. Create! Create! Create! Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2014 Ryan Richards All rights reserved by author. Pe

These lesson activities guide student to think critically about the choices that they make with respect to musical artists to listen, and further to interrogate the messages that they are receiving. Students are challenged to see song lyrics as a construct purposed reflect the artist's identity and to possible to convey a reflection on so social issue. After critical reflection on underlying ideas that they've inferred from existing songs, students are guided to be composers of powerful messages

This is a lesson plan that involves an interactive activity where I teach my students (generally in History {New France}) about Biculturalism, Assimilation, Ethnocentrism, and Multiculturalism. I teach them about these topics through a narrative and via media (links included). Ive taken the opportunity to have my students act as the different groups while they explore my narrative. My students learned about important decisions that were made at the Seven Years War that ultimately shaped our coun

This organizer is designed to guide students through an exploration of popular music over time to investigate connections between music genres and personal/social identities. Please feel free to share your feedback! Be Great! Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2017 Ryan Richards

This is the student ballot that you can use for the mock student awards that you can hold at the end of the Song Lyric Analysis learning experience. My students really found that this was an exciting way to cap of an interesting learning experience! Have fun with it!