This
interdisciplinary reference guide will interest and engage both teachers and
students as it examines the origins and inspiration for contemporary song
lyrics. This media literacy resource will facilitate meaningful classroom
discussions, promote critical thinking, and stimulate further inquiry. The variety
of primary and secondary sources referenced in this multimedia guide will
enable teachers to differentiate instruction while preparing students for
constructed response and document based questions.
Popular
songs can be used in a classroom setting to illuminate a particular theme or
topic leading students to new insights and understandings. Songs create an
emotional hook in the classroom environment and may be used as a means to
introduce visual art, poetry, literature, historic documents, film, photographs,
and other primary sources.
In
each song entry you will find information including artists' commentary,
discussion of corresponding songs, referenced and related works for study and
comparison, music and lyric resources, discography, examples of student work
and sample constructed response classroom activities.
Enter the song
guide by clicking on each song title below:
In My Life* (ESL learning
activity)
Kevin Carter / Universal
Soldier
Nebraska / Sympathy For The
Devil
Southern Man /
Sweet Home Alabama / Ronnie and Neil
Jeremy / I Don't Like Mondays /
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Born In The U.S.A. / This
Land Is Your Land / Megalomaniac
Ohio / Chicago / Alice’s
Restaurant / For What It's Worth / He Got Game
What's Really Going On (Strange Fruit) / The Way It Is / Pride (In the
Name of Love)
( Don't Fear ) The Reaper /
Fade To Black / Hold On / Adam's Song/ Vincent / American Pie / Hate Me
* Entries created and submitted by Christopher Chase
Johnathan
Chase / M.U.S.I.C., Inc. Publications ©2004 -2007