NYTLN: Teaching With Protest Music

[Ryan Goble]

From the NYTimes Learning Network!  LESSON PLAN Teaching With Protest Music By MICHAEL GONCHAR AND KATHERINE SCHULTEN Studying the protest music of yesterday or today can be an engaging teaching tool, whether the goal is to better understand a time period, analyze the power of lyrics and poetry, understand forces of social change or respond to current issues.

[Shirley Durr]

Regarding your statement about the goal, "understand forces of social change or respond to current issues"

Pete Seeger's recent death may add impact but even more so Michael Moore's Facebook post:"They Don't Care About Us" (Michael Jackson) - Flint Water Crisis (... The latter gives students a more recent singer with whom most if not all are familiar.