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AB Learning Plan TemplateName: Marielle KraftTitle: Apartheid and Civil Rights Freedom Songs as Unifying AnthemsGrade or Age Group: Sixth GradeMaterials Needed: We Shall Overcome and Asikatali audio and lyrics, analysis worksheet + Venn diagramYouTube (Asikatali): (We shall overcome): Standards for each Objective (Content Area and Arts Area):Common Core Standard ELA Literacy RL.6.4 – Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings: analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.National Arts Standards for 6th Grade:MU:Re7.2.6 – a) Describe how elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of the pieces; b) Identify the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.MU:Re8.1.6 – Describe a personal interpretation of how creators’ and performers’ application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres and cultural and historical context, convey expressive intent.Learning ObjectivesCognitive: Students will analyze two freedom songs for different aspects of an “anthem.” Students will understand the meaning behind the songs, specific to Apartheid and Civil Rights. Affective: Students will work well in whole class, group, and partner settings. Students will demonstrate listening and oral participatory skills. Students will follow directions and work together.Artistic: Students will write a stanza of a Freedom Song of their own. Assessment Criteria Cognitive: Teacher will evaluate students’ ability to analyze a freedom song for the different elements that comprise an anthem: word choice, repetition, and overall meaning. Students will take analysis notes on the worksheet and the teacher will collect these sheets at the end of the lesson. KWL Charts.Affective: Teacher will circulate around the classroom to make sure students are working well together both in pairs and in small groups. Teacher will ensure that students have all participated by individually collecting worksheets for a grade at the end of the lesson.Artistic: Teacher will observe how students work in small groups to create their own stanza for an anthem based on what they have learned in their freedom song analyses. The teacher will also watch/listen as they perform their stanzas for the class, and collect the written stanzas from the students.Introduce Lesson’s Target LearningI will introduce the lesson’s concept with a quick opening discussion about anthems. Students will brainstorm what they consider anthems of their own time (ex: We are the World, Happy, Shake it Off, etc). I will play a clip of We are the World and explain the context of the song as an anthem. Then, I will ask students to identify different elements of this song that make it stand out as an “anthem.” I will record their ideas on the board: lyrics, catchy melody, sense of hope, repetition, we feel united when we sing them together; everyone knows this song, etc. Next, we will briefly review the KWL chart for Anthems that the students did for homework to lead us into our main activity.Integrated Arts Activity:Introduce 2 freedom songs: Asikatali (Apartheid) and We Shall Overcome (Civil Rights). Play them for the class via audio connection. Explain that these are considered two “Anthems” that represent these social issues. (Askitali means “We Do Not Care if We Go to Prison”)Split students into groups of 3-4. Ask half of the groups to analyze the Anthem characteristics of Asikatali and the other half to analyze We Shall Overcome. Pass out the analysis worksheet. Ask students to work together when analyzing the songs, marking specific elements on the lyric sheets.After 10 minutes, students will pair up with a partner who analyzed the other song, and they will share their different analyses for the two anthems. Students will be asked to fill in a venn diagram for the Anthem characteristics of the two different songs.We will regroup as a whole class and discuss the analysis worksheets. We will focus on the similarities between the two songs in word choice, repetition, and structure. These are the elements that define the two songs as anthems of the social issues. Culminating Activity:Students will apply what they have learned about anthems to write a stanza relevant to a social issue in their own lives. We will brainstorm social issues that are salient to the students in the class, allowing students to look into their own lives for a sense of importance and agency. After deciding on a topic important and personal to the class, students will be asked to get back into their original groups to create a new stanza of the anthem We Shall Overcome, using its same structure. Then, the students will take turns performing their stanzas one after another as the entire class stands in a circle, creating a sense of unity and eliminating some stage fright. Respect will be established for those sharing their stanzas, and after performing our own “class anthem,” we will take a few moments to debrief the experience. How did you feel writing and performing an anthem of personal importance to you? How did the class circle make you feel? How does this anthem affect the atmosphere of the class and classroom? How can you connect what you are feeling now to the anthems and the people singing them during the Civil Rights and Apartheid eras?Finally, the students will revisit their KWL charts and fill in the “Learned” column based on the lesson.Assessment (your actual assessment tool, i.e. rubric, journal, etc.)Teacher will evaluate based on:Thoroughness of the analysis worksheet + the margin notes on the lyrics sheetUse of the elements of an Anthem (repetition, word choice, and overall meaning) in creating their own stanza.Students will then be asked to identify which Anthem elements they used in their stanzas.Students will be evaluated on their ability to analyze the Freedom songs in groups, their ability to demonstrate and identify the elements of an Anthem, their ability to work efficiently in both small group and whole-class environments, and their ability to perform and listen to their classmates.KWL chart (L column)Asikatali (lyrics translated into English)We are the children of Africa, And it's for freedom that we're fighting nowWe are the children of Africa, And it's for freedom that we're fighting now(Chorus:)A heavy load, a heavy load, It's gonna take some real strengthA heavy load, a heavy load, It's gonna take some real strengthWe do not care if we go to prison, If it's for freedom then we'll gladly goWe do not care if we go to prison, If it's for freedom then we'll gladly go(Chorus)They took our lands, they took our homes - How much longer will they bleed us?They took our lands, they took our homes - How much longer will they bleed us?(Chorus)In Soweto, they shot us down, But we will stand up unitedIn Soweto, they shot us down, But we will stand up united(Chorus)We Shall Overcome We shall overcome,We shall overcome,We shall overcome, some day.(Chorus)Oh, deep in my heart,I do believeWe shall overcome, some day.The truth will make us free The truth will make us freeThe truth will make us free, some day.(Chorus) We'll walk hand in hand,We'll walk hand in hand,We'll walk hand in hand, some day.(Chorus)We are not afraid,We are not afraid,We are not afraid, TODAY(Chorus)We shall all be free,We shall all be free,We shall all be free, some day.(Chorus)We shall overcome,We shall overcome,We shall overcome, some day.(Chorus)Freedom Songs: Anthem AnalysisName: ________________________________Date: ______________Freedom Song: _______________________________ Civil Rights or ApartheidSpecific Word Choice:Important Lyrical Repetition:Overall Meaning: Other Elements of an Anthem seen in this song:45148505086350Partner: _________________________________00Partner: _________________________________45148502457450Name: _________________________________00Name: _________________________________520065057150ANTHEMS: Freedom Songs00ANTHEMS: Freedom Songs47434504171950BOTH00BOTH44005507486650Asikatali00Asikatali4286250857250We Shall Overcome00We Shall Overcome114300-22860000228600228600000Lesson References:1. PBS - Plantation Dance/Ring Shout, African American Culture. 2. Smithsonian Folkways - South Africa, Free At Last: The Freedom Songs of South Africa and the Civil Rights Movement in America 3. The Kennedy Center (ArtsEdge) - Freedom Riders Lesson:“We Shall Overcome” – The Power of Group Singing. Common Core Standards (ELA) 5. National Arts Standards (Media and Visual Art) ................
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