Students will prepare songs for submission to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Standards CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5 Vocabulary songs, metaphor (review), point of view (review), revision, simile (review) Preparation Make copies of Partner Revision Handout. Reserve computers or computer lab for students to type their songs. Make copies of Song Assessment Rubric (see Supplemental Materials) to use in your evaluation of each student’s work. For advanced students, make copies of on Verses” (Page 92). “Spotlight Free Write 5 minutes Brainstorm 5 minutes Review the two figures of speech, simile and metaphor. Explain that a simile is a descriptive comparison that uses or A metaphor makes similar “like” “as.” comparisons without using or “like” “as.” Prompt: For the final brainstorm, work with a partner to write down as many similes and metaphors as you can in three minutes. For the remaining time, allow students to share their favorite similes and metaphors with the class. Activity 35 minutes 1. Share with students: Just like any other style of writing, songwriting requires revision to make the song the best it can be. To revise lyrics, songwriters may do something as simple as swapping out a few words or they might rewrite whole verses or the chorus. They have to be brave enough to accept feedback from other people and to consider changing words and phrases they may have thought were perfect. Professional songwriters often keep revising their work, even up to the last minute. Bob Dylan, for example, originally wrote the song Up in Blue” “Tangled in the third-person point of view, from the perspective of someone else. But then
Students will prepare songs for submission to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Standards CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5 Vocabulary songs, metaphor (review), point of view (review), revision, simile (review) Preparation Make copies of Partner Revision Handout. Reserve computers or computer lab for students to type their songs. Make copies of Song Assessment Rubric (see Supplemental Materials) to use in your evaluation of each student’s work. For advanced students, make copies of “Spotlight on Verses” (Page 92). Free Write 5 minutes Brainstorm 5 minutes Review the two figures of speech, simile and metaphor. Explain that a simile is a descriptive comparison that uses “like” or “as.” A metaphor makes similar comparisons without using “like” or “as.” Prompt: For the final brainstorm, work with a partner to write down as many similes and metaphors as you can in three minutes. For the remaining time, allow students to share their favorite similes and metaphors with the class. Activity 35 minutes 1. Share with students: Just like any other style of writing, songwriting requires revision to make the song the best it can be. To revise lyrics, songwriters may do something as simple as swapping out a few words or they might rewrite whole verses or the chorus. They have to be brave enough to accept feedback from other people and to consider changing words and phrases they may have thought were perfect. Professional songwriters often keep revising their work, even up to the last minute. Bob Dylan, for example, originally wrote the song “Tangled Up in Blue” in the third-person point of view, from the perspective of someone else. But then
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