CURRICULUM: Ben Harper Sounds & Visions + MLK & CIvil Rights
I'm cross posting this as the song "Like A Mr." included in the study guide is about bad government + lots of civil rights issues are covered in the PDF... Enjoy....
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I sent a broadcast e-mail about this in September '09 but thought I'd give the materials a permanent home at MC POP. Since Martin Luther King is featured in the study guide and MLK day is monday, I thought it would be timely. Besides that, if I don't share this resource it might just sit out there on the web not being used by cool teachers like you!
"Back in the day" Mindblue partnered with Ben Harper & Virgin Records to create a curriculum for a bunch of Ben Harper tunes. Ben's music is extremely literate. Ben is a mix of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix. The PDF is 20 pages and, outstanding one love song, all the tracks deal with political/civil rights issues. I think the most interesting lesson is about Rodney King and Martin Luther King for the complex song, "Like a King." It was challenging for us to write the Rodney King part of the study guide in a way that accurately portrayed the complexities of the situation.
At any rate, It is really strong collection for 5-12 grade English and Social Studies teachers.
The study guide can be downloaded (totally free) here:
You can buy the Ben Harper songs that go with the study guide from a playlist we created over at iTunes.
Of note - Ben did a stunning interpretation of Maya Angelou's very famous poem "Still I Rise." We were unable to license the poem/lyrics for the actual PDF but we mention of the song & Ben's connection with Maya in the PDF. Ben's beautiful cover of the poem (and the other tracks from the PDF) is included in the playlist at iTunes.
The Angelou poem/Ben lyrics are all over the web.
Here's a medium (audio) quality version of song for you to check out...is a pretty moving number. In the 90's Ben would close his shows with this song, fist in the air...
Here's a video for Ben's newest single (2009) "Fly One Time" - also very teachable...
In addition to the Mindblue study guides we sell with differentiated lesson plans you can find more cool rock and roll lesson plans at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum Summer Teacher Institute Archive. They have a solid collection of lessons on a large range of topics, disciplines and grade levels.
The archive Includes a lesson for a series of rap tracks related to the same Angelou poem.
If any of you end up using the Ben Harper materials, I'd love to know if they were useful and how you used them!
Good Vibes,
Ryan:)
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I sent a broadcast e-mail about this in September '09 but thought I'd give the materials a permanent home at MC POP. Since Martin Luther King is featured in the study guide and MLK day is monday, I thought it would be timely. Besides that, if I don't share this resource it might just sit out there on the web not being used by cool teachers like you!
"Back in the day" Mindblue partnered with Ben Harper & Virgin Records to create a curriculum for a bunch of Ben Harper tunes. Ben's music is extremely literate. Ben is a mix of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix. The PDF is 20 pages and, outstanding one love song, all the tracks deal with political/civil rights issues. I think the most interesting lesson is about Rodney King and Martin Luther King for the complex song, "Like a King." It was challenging for us to write the Rodney King part of the study guide in a way that accurately portrayed the complexities of the situation.
At any rate, It is really strong collection for 5-12 grade English and Social Studies teachers.
The study guide can be downloaded (totally free) here:
You can buy the Ben Harper songs that go with the study guide from a playlist we created over at iTunes.
Of note - Ben did a stunning interpretation of Maya Angelou's very famous poem "Still I Rise." We were unable to license the poem/lyrics for the actual PDF but we mention of the song & Ben's connection with Maya in the PDF. Ben's beautiful cover of the poem (and the other tracks from the PDF) is included in the playlist at iTunes.
The Angelou poem/Ben lyrics are all over the web.
Here's a medium (audio) quality version of song for you to check out...is a pretty moving number. In the 90's Ben would close his shows with this song, fist in the air...
Here's a video for Ben's newest single (2009) "Fly One Time" - also very teachable...
In addition to the Mindblue study guides we sell with differentiated lesson plans you can find more cool rock and roll lesson plans at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum Summer Teacher Institute Archive. They have a solid collection of lessons on a large range of topics, disciplines and grade levels.
The archive Includes a lesson for a series of rap tracks related to the same Angelou poem.
If any of you end up using the Ben Harper materials, I'd love to know if they were useful and how you used them!
Good Vibes,
Ryan:)
RELATED POSTS:
RESOURCE COLLECTION + LESSON PLAN: Celebrating MLK Day
MLK & Media Literacy (New Educational Resource)
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