1. Lyrical life
Music and Poetry

2. Playlist of Your Life
Song
Reason
“Ironic”- Alanis Morissette
First CD I owned, elementary school
“Quit Playing Games With My Heart” -Backstreet Boys
Favorite band, middle school
“Hey Ya” –Outkast
Our warm-up song for soccer games, high school
“Here I Go Again” –Whitesnake
Senior class song
“Mr. Brightside” –Killers
I remember singing this a lot with my college roommates
Make a playlist of your life. Choose songs and explain why you chose them.

3. Music & Poetry
Why does it seem natural to associate our lives/memories with music?
What is so important about music?
Chart: music vs. poetry

4. Song #1: “Hallelujah”
What emotions (mood) might this song produce? (Circle ALL emotion words)
What kind of connections can you make with this song? (Can you relate?)
How would you describe the language or diction? Tone?
What is the life lesson, overall message, or theme of the song?
Annotate Poetic devices/Figurative language

5. Song #2: “Free Fallin’” What emotions (mood) might this song produce?
What kind of connections can you make with this song? (Can you relate?)
How would you describe the language or diction? Tone?
What is the life lesson, overall message, or theme of the song?
Annotate Poetic devices/Figurative language

6. Found Poem Create a “found poem” using lyrics from these songs
Take lines/phrases from different songs and put them together to form a poem (10-12 lines)
Example:
She’s a good girl
And she’s got to love nobody
But she’s home with a broken heart
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
He asked, “Do you feel like a waste of space?”
But she’s free,
Hallelujah, she’s free fallin’