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Activity Two: Create an Album and Music Video
Over the course of the next seven lessons we will be focusing on the Civil Rights and People’s movements of the 1960’s. Each day we will focus on a particular aspect as displayed on your Unit Syllabus for the first half of the class. For the second half, you will be working independently or with a partner on a project relating to the movement.
This project is two-fold. Using a video presenter of your choice (PhotoStory, Movie Maker) you will first choose five songs from the 1960s, each from a different category provided. Upon selecting your songs, please give them to Mrs. Smith who will cut them and blend them for you to attach images and labels to in a music video. No narration is needed, as you will create a separate album book containing the songs information.
Your “album book” will be formatted accordingly:
I. “Album” cover (5 pts.)
II. Song #1 with Lyrics (5 pts.)
III. Song #1 details and interpretations (5 points)
IV. Song # 2 with lyrics (5pts.)
V. Song #2 details and interpretations (5 points)
VI. Song # 3 with lyrics (5pts.)
VII. Song #3 details and interpretations (5 points)
VIII. Song #4 with lyrics (5 pts.)
IX. Song #4 details and interpretations (5 points)
X. Song # 5 with lyrics (5 pts.)
XI. Song #5 details and interpretations (5 points)
XII. Contemporary Connections (10 points)
Addition points are as follows:
Citations= 5 points
Use of Class Time= 5 Points
Music Video= 25 points
= 100 pointsSection Details
1. Album Cover: Create an album cover that illustrated the movements of the 1960s, appropriate to the song selections. You may illustrate this by hand or using the computer. Here you should also include you (and your partners) name.
2. Song with Lyrics: Choose five songs from the CD (or listed below). Four songs need to be from different categories (one from each), the fifth song is left for your to choose and decide based on interest. Once the song is selected, provide the lyrics in the album book.
3.Details and Interpretations: For each individual song that you choose, answer the attached questions on the song and lyrics. Additional research may be needed, so research as necessary (song years, performed by, etc.)
4. Contemporary Connections: Choose one or more of the issues or problems addressed in the songs and select a current song on a similar issue. The current song may have a similar or different point of view. Compare and contrast the songs attitudes on the topic. Also provide the lyrics and song name of the current selection. You do not need to do an interpretation of the one that you select. The music you select must be from the 90s or 2000s.
This project is two-fold. Using a video presenter of your choice (PhotoStory, Movie Maker) you will first choose five songs from the 1960s, each from a different category provided. Upon selecting your songs, please give them to Mrs. Smith who will cut them and blend them for you to attach images and labels to in a music video. No narration is needed, as you will create a separate album book containing the songs information.
Your “album book” will be formatted accordingly:
I. “Album” cover (5 pts.)
II. Song #1 with Lyrics (5 pts.)
III. Song #1 details and interpretations (5 points)
IV. Song # 2 with lyrics (5pts.)
V. Song #2 details and interpretations (5 points)
VI. Song # 3 with lyrics (5pts.)
VII. Song #3 details and interpretations (5 points)
VIII. Song #4 with lyrics (5 pts.)
IX. Song #4 details and interpretations (5 points)
X. Song # 5 with lyrics (5 pts.)
XI. Song #5 details and interpretations (5 points)
XII. Contemporary Connections (10 points)
Addition points are as follows:
Citations= 5 points
Use of Class Time= 5 Points
Music Video= 25 points
= 100 pointsSection Details
1. Album Cover: Create an album cover that illustrated the movements of the 1960s, appropriate to the song selections. You may illustrate this by hand or using the computer. Here you should also include you (and your partners) name.
2. Song with Lyrics: Choose five songs from the CD (or listed below). Four songs need to be from different categories (one from each), the fifth song is left for your to choose and decide based on interest. Once the song is selected, provide the lyrics in the album book.
3.Details and Interpretations: For each individual song that you choose, answer the attached questions on the song and lyrics. Additional research may be needed, so research as necessary (song years, performed by, etc.)
4. Contemporary Connections: Choose one or more of the issues or problems addressed in the songs and select a current song on a similar issue. The current song may have a similar or different point of view. Compare and contrast the songs attitudes on the topic. Also provide the lyrics and song name of the current selection. You do not need to do an interpretation of the one that you select. The music you select must be from the 90s or 2000s.
Song Choices
Song Choices (If you know of a song, but do not see it below, please see me)
I. Civil Rights Movement: Choose One of the following:
“Abraham, Martin and John” Dion (Laurie, 1968) song written about Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy
“If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)” Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner, 1962)
“The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1964)
“Keep On Pushing” Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions (ABC-Paramount, 1964)
“People Got to Be Free” The Rascals (Atlantic, 1968)
“Respect Yourself” The Staple Singers (Stax, 1971)
“Say It Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud(Part 1)” James Brown (King, 1968)
“Stand” Sly and the Family Stone (Epic, 1969)
“Think” Aretha Franklin (Atlantic, 1968)
“We Shall Overcome” Joan Baez (Vanguard, 1963) recorded live at Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama; based on music from a 1794 hymn
II. Vietnam War Choose One of the following:
“Roll Call” by Johnny Cash
“Alice’s Rock & Roll Restaurant” Arlo Guthrie (Reprise, 1969)
“Blowin’ in the Wind” Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1963)
“Born in the U.S.A.” Bruce Springsteen (Columbia, 1984)
“Draft Dodger Rag” or “I ain’t Marchin Anymore” Phil Ochs (Elektra, 1965)
“For What Its Worth (Stop, Hey What’s That Sound)” Buffalo Springfield (Atco, 1966)
“Fortunate Son” Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy, 1969)
“Give Peace a Chance” John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band (Apple, 1969)
“Ohio” Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Atlantic, 1970) written by Young after four students killed at Kent State University.
“Viet Nam” Jimmy Cliff (A&M, 1970)
“War” Edwin Starr (Gordy, 1970) covered by Bruce Springsteen (Columbia, 1986)
“I Feel Like I’m Fixin to Die” Country Joe McDonald
“Wooden Ships” by Crosby, Stills and Nash
“One Tin Soldier” by Baez
“War Pigs” by Black Sabbath
“Strawberry Fields” by the Beatles
III. Counterculture Choose One of the following:
“People try to put us down”
“My Generation” by The Who
“All You Need is Love” by the Beatles
“Born to be Wild” by Steppenwolf
“America” by Simon and Garfunkel
“Student Demonstration Time” by the Beach Boys
“Down on Me” by Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin)
“San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” by Scott McKenzie
“Revival” by The Allman Brothers Band
“Wild Thing” by The Troggs
“59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” by Simon and Garfunkel
“Higher” by Sly and the Family Stone
“Eight Miles High” by The Byrds
“White Rabbit” by The Jefferson Airplane
“Alotta freaks!” by Arlo Guthrie
“Woodstock” by Crosby, Stills and Nash, Stage Announcements from Woodstock
“Times They are a Changin” by Bob Dylan
“With a Little Help from My Friends” by Joe Cocker
“Imagine” by John Lennon
IV. Women who Rock Choose One of the following:
“I am Woman” by Helen Reddy
“Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” Aretha Franklin
“Peace in the Valley” Loretta Lynn
“Good Man, Good Woman” by Bonnie Raitt
“White Rabbit” by Grace Slick
“Take Another Little Piece of my Heart” by Janis Joplin
Other female artists:
Joni Mitchell
Laura Nyro
Michelle Phillips and Mama Cass
Odetta
Tina Turner
Ruth Brown
Wanda Jackson
LaVern Baker
Brenda Lee