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    The document outlines lesson plans for three days that use popular music to teach about literary devices and social issues. On Tuesday, students will analyze Jimi Hendrix's version of the "Star Spangled Banner" to understand feelings about the Vietnam War. Wednesday focuses on Pink Floyd's "Time" to discuss the theme of carpe diem. Thursday analyzes Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" to learn about personification through the lens of loss and changing perspectives.

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    The document outlines lesson plans for three days that use popular music to teach about literary devices and social issues. On Tuesday, students will analyze Jimi Hendrix's version of the "Star Spangled Banner" to understand feelings about the Vietnam War. Wednesday focuses on Pink Floyd's "Time" to discuss the theme of carpe diem. Thursday analyzes Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" to learn about personification through the lens of loss and changing perspectives.

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    11/12

    Wednesday

    11/13
    Thursday

    Lesson
    Title

    The Vietnam War: A Popular


    Music Approach

    Pink Floyd & the Carpe Diem Theme

    Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices:


    Jimi Hendrixs The Wind Cries Mary

    Vocab

    anthem; patriotism

    Date

    11/11
    Tuesday

    Activities & Assessments

    Materials & Resources

    Music (ideas for songs to use in


    lesson plan
    Lyrics
    Primary source materials about
    the war (newspaper/magazine
    articles, photographs, etc.)
    Song analysis worksheet (see
    Rockin the World: Rock &
    Roll & Social Protest in 20th
    Century America

    1. Listen to Jimi Hendrixs version


    of the Star Spangled Banner
    Answer:
    How did this version of the
    national anthem make you
    feel?
    What feelings do you think
    the musician was trying to
    express?
    2. Vietnam era song lyrics will be
    analyzed for:
    Date of selection
    Author/group performing
    Intended audience
    Topic(s)
    Purpose(s)
    Fact(s)
    Conclusions
    Relevance to topic of
    discussion/to American
    society today

    alliteration; allusion; internal rhyme; contrasting


    images; theme

    personification

    Pink Floyds song Time (music &


    lyrics)
    Analysis page

    Music & lyrics for Jimi Hendrixs


    The Wind Cries Mary

    1. Preliminary discussion:
    Are you ever bored?
    2. Distribute lyrics & play the song.
    3. Focus points:
    Alarm clock ringing, ticking clock,
    ominous chords=urgency regarding
    the passage of time
    Hanging around hometown
    =complain that nothing is
    happening (dull day; around,
    ground, town; sunshine, rain; life,
    kill)
    Compared to a race (starting gun,
    you run, lapped, shorter of breath)
    4. The Carpe Diem theme:
    Acknowledges his own mortality
    Discuss the last line in the stanza

    1.

    Preliminary discussion:
    How do your perceptions of your
    surroundings change when youre
    really upset?
    Distribute song lyrics.
    Focus points in the song:
    Progression of song: childhood, loss
    of companion, loss of life, grim
    thoughts of the future.
    Reason for using personification:
    deep loss/loneliness emotional
    /psychological attempt to bring life to
    everything around him. Attempting
    to fill the void with inanimate objects
    in his life.
    Tragedy causes people to see life
    differently.
    Personification: turn a blue
    tomorrow, a broom sweeping,
    happiness standing on down the
    street

    2.
    3.

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