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Conferences and Workshops
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Let's Write a Song, Part 2 - Verses
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This article assumes you have read and been inspired by “Let’s Write a Song! Part one.” Here are the amazing things you and your class have accomplished: - Everyone understands and can apply the concepts of lyrics, melody, and chorus
- You have brainstormed, taken notes, and discussed the topic you decided to write about; and
- You have written your chorus, revised it, set it to music, recorded it, put it aside, listened to it again, and decided you LOVE it!
Great work! Now you are ready to write the verses.
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Creativity in the Classroom: Let’s Write a Song!
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How many of us elementary school teachers have classes filled with kids who are eager to write? Bursting with ideas? Willing to revise and edit until they are proud of their work? Can’t wait to share their writing with the other kids?Hmm…not too many of us have raised our hands, have we? During my 16 years of teaching literacy, music, and English as a Second Language in the New York City School System, I’ve been working on ways to motivate children to express themselves creatively. My favorite method, which follows, is still a “work in progress” – I call it “Let’s Write a Song!”
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"Marla Lewis, singer-songwriter for the young and young-minded, is a national treasure. She has the uncanny ability to hear, capture and reproduce in rhyme, meter and melody the dreams, drama, goals, glories, fears and fantasies of an entire generation of children, 6 to 16, but she does so in a manner so musical and memorable that these songs will inspire and inveigle the other age groups (17 to 77). Owning a copy of this album may be the best, long-lasting treat you can give your kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews, or even yourself."
-- Reviewed in Vintage News by Stan Jay, President, Mandolin Brothers
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