Words to Music Creating Unforgetable Language Lori Savoy James Irvin Education Center

Ernest Hemingway We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Rationale Individual interpretaion of theme Student ownership

Grade Level Middle School High School

Rudyard Kipling I keep six honest serving men They taught me all I knew; Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

Reminisce “The Alphabet Song” “Old MacDonald Had A Farm” “Wheels on the Bus” When You Wish Upon A Star” What memories did you have when you hear these tunes? What sensory images do you associate with this music?

Music and Writing......music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance And I wrote some rock 'n roll so you can move Music fills your heart, well that's a real fine place to start It's from me, it's for you It's from you, it's for me It's a worldwide symphony

E.B. White “I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”

Using the words from one of the songs used earlier...follow Kipling's theory and choose other parts of the bus to show visualization Who What When Where Why How in relation to the “bus” (or something else)

Elizabeth and Brook's Song “Just take those ole turkeys off the shelf... I sit and eat them all by myself...the same turkey ain't got the same feast just try that ole time turkey meat. old time turkey roll that kind of food makes me soothe my soul... I reminisce about that Thanksgiving treat that kind of food makes me move my feet. Repeat...

William Shakespeare Encourage reluctant writers “Suit the action of the word to the action.”

Adaptations... To establish mood, characterization, theme, diction, choose a character from a novel, i.e. Holden Caulfield...choose a song to depict either his plight or his person...

Your Turn... Choose a song with a familiar melody and create a new song with new lyrics