Create Your Own Song Analysis Activities

Empower your students with the skills to analyze literature through engaging song analysis discussions, student activities, and presentations! With this comprehensive resource, all you need to do is select a song and let my template, tasks, and teacher resources pages handle the rest!

Drawing inspiration from Nancy Dean's acclaimed work, "Voice Lessons," these Song Lessons activities leverage the power of popular music genres such as country, rock, pop, and folk to illuminate the impact of literary devices in literature. This resource effectively employs 5 key literary devices—Details, Diction, Imagery, Point of View, and Tone—to facilitate insightful discussions and in-depth analysis.

Immerse your students in a dynamic learning experience where they explore the synergy between music and literature. This resource equips you with the tools and frameworks to seamlessly integrate these activities into your curriculum. Foster critical thinking and literary analysis while tapping into the universal language of music.

Included with this resource download:

• - An introduction with lesson planning advice and the definitions of 5 literary devices (Detail, Diction, Imagery, Point of View, and Tone)

• - A song lessons template file. This file includes a fill-in-the-blank song lesson activity and 4 teacher resources pages that include "template-ready" literary devices terms and 50 (!) sample analysis questions. You'll be able to create a song analysis lesson for any song in minutes!

• - 5 Create Your Own Song Lesson Assignments that allows students to share their favorite music while also demonstrating their understanding of 5 different literary devices. Each assignment worksheet includes a rubric tied to 2 ELA Common Core standards

• - A Song Analysis Presentation assignment that invites students to share their favorite music with their classmates while keeping an academic focus. This presentation project is tied to 3 ELA Common Core standards

Although this resource can be fitted for any secondary Language Arts classroom, it has been carefully designed to work best in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. The included resources are subtly but specifically tied to Common Core ELA Standards for Speaking and Listening (2, 4, and 5), Reading Literature (1, 2, 4, and 6), and Writing (4). This resource is provided in print-ready, bookmarked, and adjustable PDF files and a PowerPoint template file.

This resource contains 22 pages and 1 editable template tile