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Lesson Listings: Blues Songs
Overview | Part One + Two | Demonstration Example | Reflection Write | Students'
Publication
--Write
a Blues Song
Format:
- Story about sadness, trouble, hardship, or pain based on
your own experiences
The experience can be something you
felt deeply or it can be lightly troublesome
- 3 stanzas, each with 3 lines.
- First two lines repeat, and the third
line replies to the repeated lines.
- Second stanza is contrasted to the 1st stanza
- Third stanza uses an ironic twist in the third line
- Lines may rhyme
How to start:
- Brainstorm 5 experiences and list them.
- Circle one and write a reflection, explaining the story plus how you felt (10 minute write = 100 to 300 words)
- Review the reflection and circle or highlight 3 to 4 phrases
that are meaningful to your experience
- Create blues song using the phrases as repeated (1st and 2nd)
lines or reply (3rd) lines of stanzas
- Example of creating a blues song
What to do next:
Write two revisions of the blues song, cleaning structure,
story, and ironic twist
Personal challenge: pick your best stanza to keep, and cut the
others. Rewrite the song using the chosen stanza
--Final revision copy of Blues Song is published on
Discussion Web
Post Published Copy on Discussion Web, Under "Blues Songs
- Students Publications"
Subject = Title of your song
Comments = Paste blues song. Double space between each stanza.
One | Two | Five | Six
--Create PowerPoint file of your Blues Song
- Title slide
- 1 slide per stanza
- insert image that is symbolic (relates) to each stanza
- include transitions where appropriate. Set them for
auto (no mouse clicks should be needed.)
- Record reading of song
- Set file for auto run
--Write a reflection essay
about your blues song.
- Teacher's discretion: Add
reflection essay as a recording to the Blues PowerPoint file as an additional slide at the
end.
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