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STI Lesson 1: Keep on Pushing: Popular Music and the Civil Rights Movement
STI Lesson 2: Langston Hughes and the Blues
STI Lesson 3: Fifties/Sixties Musical Playwriting Workshop
STI Lesson 4 - The Vietnam War: A Popular Music Approach
STI Lesson 5 - Rockin’ the World: Rock and Roll and Social Protest in 20th Century America
STI Lesson 6 - Pink Floyd and the Carpe Diem Theme
STI Lesson 7 - Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices: Jimi Hendrix “The Wind Cries Mary”
STI Lesson 8 - Using Rock as Primary Source Material
STI Lesson 9 - Woody Guthrie and The Grapes of Wrath
STI Lesson 10 - Words/Music/Images: Interpretation and Meaning A Motivational Activity
STI Lesson 11 - The Cigar Box Guitar
STI Lesson 12 - The American Dream
STI Lesson 13 - Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum
STI Lesson 14 - Who Rocks Your World?
STI Lesson 15 - You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone: The Changing American Landscap
STI Lesson 16 - Mending Walls: Barriers in Communications
STI Lesson 17 - A Modest Proposal: Irony Made Understandable with Rock and Roll
STI Lesson 18 - From Mark Twain to David Bowie: The Artistic Persona vs. The Individual
STI Lesson 19 - Runaway Slaves
STI Lesson 20 - Slices of American Pie: The 1960s Through Music
STI Lesson 21 - Empathy and the Vietnam War
STI Lesson 22 - And We Were All in One Place: Youth Culture and the Rock Festival
STI Lesson 23 - Break on Through: The Poetry of Jim Morrison
STI Lesson 24 - Warhol’s Foxy Lady: Pop Art
STI Lesson 25 - Vietnam Revisted
STI Lesson 26 - Individual vs. Social Responsibility: From Camus to the Cure
STI Lesson 27 - I Went to the Crossroads: The Faust Theme in Music, Film and Literature
STI Lesson 28 - The Electric Hearth
STI Lesson 29 - Know Thyself: Reflections of the Adolescent Identity Crisis in Rock and Roll
STI Lesson 30 - Trouble for the United States in the Middle East: The Reagan-Bush Years
STI Lesson 31 - Syncopation and Rhythm in Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Rap Music
STI Lesson 32 - The John Travolta Syndrome
STI Lesson 33 - 8-Rap
STI Lesson 34 - “And Still I Rise” Proud Black Women Understanding the poetry of Maya Angelou through the lyrics of two female rappers
STI Lesson 35 - The Melting of the Cold War
STI Lesson 36 - Using Cross-Genre Comparisons to Find the Message in Hip-Hop
STI Lesson 37 - Teaching “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” with Popular Music
STI Lesson 38 - Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, The Minstrels
STI Lesson 39 - People Everyday: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Music Literacy
STI Lesson 40 - Rock and Poetry: A Thematic Project
STI Lesson 41 - Teaching Economics and Rock and Roll: Unemployment
STI Lesson 42 - The Bill of Rights is a-Rockin
STI Lesson 43 - Screening Coleridge’s Fantasies: Using Popular Music as a Bridge to Literacy
STI Lesson 44 - Compositional Techniques: Are There Similarities Between
STI Lesson 45 - Democracy…Not Yet!
STI Lesson 46 - Feminism Does Not Have to be an F-Word
STI Lesson 47 - GET UP, STAND UP: FIghting for Rights Around the World
STI Lesson 48 - Getting Inside The Outsiders Through Music
STI Lesson 49 - Timbre: Identifying the Tone Color of the Saxophone
STI Lesson 50 - Using Music to Teach Personal Narrative: “Snapshots” and “Crossing-the-Border” Song
STI Lesson 51 - Song Form: From the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Andrea Bocelli
STI Lesson 52 - Scops, Rappers and You: Historians with Style!
General References
Music Industry
Roots
Sociology, Education, Culture
1950s - 1960s
1970s - 1990s
Women Who Rock
Suffragettees to Juke-Joints
Get Outta That Kitchen
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Revolution, the Counterculture, and the Pill
I Will Survive
Dance this Mess Around
Causing a Commotion
Ladies First
Women Who Rock Videos
Overview
STI Lesson 1: Keep on Pushing: Popular Music and the Civil Rights Movement
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STI Lesson 2: Langston Hughes and the Blues
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STI Lesson 3: Fifties/Sixties Musical Playwriting Workshop
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STI Lesson 4 - The Vietnam War: A Popular Music Approach
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STI Lesson 5 - Rockin’ the World: Rock and Roll and Social Protest in 20th Century America
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STI Lesson 6 - Pink Floyd and the Carpe Diem Theme
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STI Lesson 7 - Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices: Jimi Hendrix “The Wind Cries Mary”
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STI Lesson 8 - Using Rock as Primary Source Material
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STI Lesson 9 - Woody Guthrie and The Grapes of Wrath
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STI Lesson 10 - Words/Music/Images: Interpretation and Meaning A Motivational Activity
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STI Lesson 11 - The Cigar Box Guitar
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STI Lesson 12 - The American Dream
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STI Lesson 13 - Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum
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STI Lesson 14 - Who Rocks Your World?
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STI Lesson 15 - You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone: The Changing American Landscap
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STI Lesson 16 - Mending Walls: Barriers in Communications
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STI Lesson 17 - A Modest Proposal: Irony Made Understandable with Rock and Roll
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STI Lesson 18 - From Mark Twain to David Bowie: The Artistic Persona vs. The Individual
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STI Lesson 19 - Runaway Slaves
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STI Lesson 20 - Slices of American Pie: The 1960s Through Music
learn more
STI Lesson 21 - Empathy and the Vietnam War
learn more
STI Lesson 22 - And We Were All in One Place: Youth Culture and the Rock Festival
learn more
STI Lesson 23 - Break on Through: The Poetry of Jim Morrison
learn more
STI Lesson 24 - Warhol’s Foxy Lady: Pop Art
learn more
STI Lesson 25 - Vietnam Revisted
learn more
STI Lesson 26 - Individual vs. Social Responsibility: From Camus to the Cure
learn more
STI Lesson 27 - I Went to the Crossroads: The Faust Theme in Music, Film and Literature
learn more
STI Lesson 28 - The Electric Hearth
learn more
STI Lesson 29 - Know Thyself: Reflections of the Adolescent Identity Crisis in Rock and Roll
learn more
STI Lesson 30 - Trouble for the United States in the Middle East: The Reagan-Bush Years
learn more
STI Lesson 31 - Syncopation and Rhythm in Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Rap Music
learn more
STI Lesson 32 - The John Travolta Syndrome
learn more
STI Lesson 33 - 8-Rap
learn more
STI Lesson 34 - “And Still I Rise” Proud Black Women Understanding the poetry of Maya Angelou through the lyrics of two female rappers
learn more
STI Lesson 35 - The Melting of the Cold War
learn more
STI Lesson 36 - Using Cross-Genre Comparisons to Find the Message in Hip-Hop
learn more
STI Lesson 37 - Teaching “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” with Popular Music
learn more
STI Lesson 38 - Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, The Minstrels
learn more
STI Lesson 39 - People Everyday: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Music Literacy
learn more
STI Lesson 40 - Rock and Poetry: A Thematic Project
learn more
STI Lesson 41 - Teaching Economics and Rock and Roll: Unemployment
learn more
STI Lesson 42 - The Bill of Rights is a-Rockin
learn more
STI Lesson 43 - Screening Coleridge’s Fantasies: Using Popular Music as a Bridge to Literacy
learn more
STI Lesson 44 - Compositional Techniques: Are There Similarities Between
learn more
STI Lesson 45 - Democracy…Not Yet!
learn more
STI Lesson 46 - Feminism Does Not Have to be an F-Word
learn more
STI Lesson 47 - GET UP, STAND UP: FIghting for Rights Around the World
learn more
STI Lesson 48 - Getting Inside The Outsiders Through Music
learn more
STI Lesson 49 - Timbre: Identifying the Tone Color of the Saxophone
learn more
STI Lesson 50 - Using Music to Teach Personal Narrative: “Snapshots” and “Crossing-the-Border” Song
learn more
STI Lesson 51 - Song Form: From the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Andrea Bocelli
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STI Lesson 52 - Scops, Rappers and You: Historians with Style!
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