I just found out via Facebook that my former students who are now in AP English (Advanced Placement) as seniors have an assignment that I gave to them in Honors English in 8th grade! I called it a "Music as Poetry" assignment. Students were to pick a song that was lyrically significant. We displayed the lyrics on the overhead projector or the computer projector. The students had to show the rhyme scheme, pick out figures of speech (similes, metaphors, etc.), determine assonant rhyme, etc. They had to defend why they picked the song; then we listened to it. I picked their brains after each one, so we rarely got through more than four or five per class period. In a class of almost 30, it took awhile!
I dreamed up the assignment and developed it over a number of years. What I'm saying is that I didn't steal it from any other source, although I'm sure it is not just my brainchild. It tickles me that, while I was still teaching in the district, it was MY assignment...but now that I'm retired, it is being used by the gal who is teaching college placement classes. This is a teacher whom I totally respect. That makes it all the sweeter. I done sumthin' good!
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