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LESSON PLANS
Early Grades
Nursery Rhymes Raps!
Students will brainstorm a social skill or other issue they want to address, infuse the events of a typical nursery story with their issue and retell their nursery story using new words and lyrical rap.
Middle and Upper Grades
Basic Lesson: Vocabulary
Using this lesson, students can learn the spelling, pronunciation and meaning of more than 40 SAT-level words.
Intermediate Lesson: Transcending Poetry, Jazz, Rap and Hip Hop
By analyzing Grand Master Flash’s “The Message” and Run DMC’s “It’s
Like That” alongside Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday, students will see how hip hop and jazz reflect time and place.
Advanced Lesson: Ex-Slave Communities in the Western Hemisphere
Students will study two ex-slave communities which thrived for decades in the western hemisphere, and through comparison and contrast, discuss how the hip-hop community can be seen as an artistic ex-slave community.
Exemplary Models
Hip Hop To Shakespeare, A New Way of Teaching
A student flunking English was all of the sudden able to pick apart a song as if it were a poem. That was the plan. Said a University of Delaware professor, "The kids might not see literary devices in [William] Blake, but they see it in [the work of rapper] Nas."
Hip Hop Education 101
Songs, videos, and artist profiles provide much-needed texts, adding flavor to dry social studies and civics classes. They offer the missing commentary on the lasting effects of racism and classism -- stories that are not typically found in mainstream history textbooks.
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