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Exploring Music's Role in Civil Rights

The document outlines lesson plans for a unit on music and literature from Monday November 3rd to Wednesday November 5th. The Monday lesson focuses on using songs to understand themes in The Outsiders, including forbidden love and friendship. The Tuesday lesson examines protest songs and their role in the civil rights movement. Students listen to and analyze songs and discuss their themes and influence. The Wednesday lesson introduces Langston Hughes and the blues, discussing the genre's origins and tensions between heartache and laughter through examples of Hughes' work and blues music.

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Exploring Music's Role in Civil Rights

The document outlines lesson plans for a unit on music and literature from Monday November 3rd to Wednesday November 5th. The Monday lesson focuses on using songs to understand themes in The Outsiders, including forbidden love and friendship. The Tuesday lesson examines protest songs and their role in the civil rights movement. Students listen to and analyze songs and discuss their themes and influence. The Wednesday lesson introduces Langston Hughes and the blues, discussing the genre's origins and tensions between heartache and laughter through examples of Hughes' work and blues music.

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11/4

Tuesday

11/5
Wednesday

Lesson
Title

Getting Inside the Outsiders


Through Music

Keep On Pushing: Popular Music & the


Civil Rights Movement

Langston Hughes & the Blues:


Lesson 1

Vocab

forbidden love; friendship;


social ostracism

protest song

Activities & Assessments

Materials & Resources

Date

11/3
Monday

Songs/Lyrics:
Heartbreak Hotel-Elvis
Youve Got to Hide Your Love
Away-Beatles
Im So Lonesome I Could CryHank Sr.
Two of Us-Beatles
A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall-Bob
Dylan
My Generation-The Who

Music
Printed lyrics
Copy of Background information as a
handout
Copy of song lyric analysis questions.
Index cards for Roundup Questions

Music
Lyrics
Poems
Essays
SAS Curriculum lesson on Langston
Hughes

1.

1. Discuss Rationale section of lp.


2. Play Peter, Paul & Marys Blowin in the

1.

Introduce the Blues: Read Langston


Hughes 1940 essay Songs Called the
Blues.
Discuss Hughes main points about the
blues: songs of black (southern) life, songs
with tension between heartache &
laughter.
Discuss the origins & history of the blues.
Play examples of the blues, discussing the
basic musical and lyrical elements.
What are the subjects of the blues? Find
examples of tension between heartache
and laughter in the songs.

Students will list 3 modern songs


that discuss forbidden love,
friendship, and social ostracism.
Share.
2. Read and listen to the first 4 songs
listed in the materials section.
Discuss which category they fall
under:
3. Read and listen to the last 2 songs
on the list and decide if they Socs or
the Greasers would benefit from it.
4. Discussion questions: What are the
songs major themes? Does it tell a
story?
5. Artists History: What are the
important elements of the artists
personal history and career that
enhance the understanding of the
song?
6. Political/Cultural Influences: How
did the surrounding political and
cultural climates influence the
artist?

Wing to introduce the protest song.


Discuss.
-What are the main themes and attitudes
expressed?
-Why would this song become an anthem
of civil rights movement?

3. Play/read Abraham, Martin, & John


(a song in response to the assassination
of MLK). Discuss
4. Divide class into pairs. Pass out
protest song lyrics. One should be
the READER the other should be the
WRITER. Give hand out with
questions. Analyze and present
findings.
5. Lesson roundup questions to respond to
on index card.

2.

3.
4.
5.

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