(Q1) Lyric Writing / Grade 7

Schoolhouse Rock

Students in the seventh grade started the quarter by learning about song structure. By listening to many musical examples in class, students had to pick apart the verses, choruses, bridges, and varied choruses that they heard by writing inside of their music journals. They were then quizzed on their ability to label these sections. Students were also introduced to the series of educational cartoons called Schoolhouse Rock and worked collaboratively in order to identify these sections within the cartoons. This was in preparation for their project where students were responsible for writing lyrics to a song on an educational topic while adhering to the song structure guidelines. Check out some of the excerpts below:

Topic: Photosynthesis

Chorus - Sunlight makes it grow.

Tell me all the ways you need it.

Water helps it flow.

Tell me all the ways you feed it.

Verse - Plants are taking sunlight every day.

Leaves collect the light in their own way.

Carbon from the air, it is here to stay.

Turnin' it to food, that’s what they say.

Topic: The Solar System

Out in the dark,

Eight little worlds that were found

Circling one big ball of flame known as sun.

No two planets quite the same.

Mercury runs.

Venus glows like a shiny sun.

Earths our home so blue and bright

Mars swirls dust as red as none, oh

Round we go, round the sun.

Pluto is not the same as it was.

There's close and far planets.

Round and round we go all exploring.

Jupiter’s moons shines bright.

Saturn rings are glowing.

Uranus tilts.

Neptune spins with a strong built.

Learner Profile:

Risk - Taker

ATL Skills:

Communication

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