I love to read the students’ comments on the monthly theme. It’s a great way to know what they’re learning from the history and listening stations.
My favorite this month is from Noah – “didn’t know he was in the sixties and is dead” I’m sure there’s context to this but I feel the same way. Ollie felt they all sounded the same, but maybe that’s just a first impression to 60s pop music.
Liana – one song they were playing with a ball and dribbling, and one sounded like spring then summer or summer then spring. Her favorite lyric was ‘home is in your heart’.
Wynn – liked the words to Sweet Caroline, liked the songs where one instrument (drums or piano) started first and then the others joined in, and enjoyed the pictures.
Owen really liked the song titles, especially Sweet Caroline, he appreciated the realism in the songs, and he enjoyed the moving pictures.
Hayden noted that Motown records was incorporated on April 14th, 1960. The British Invasion brought groups like the Beatles to (American) audiences. In 1969, Woodstock brought more than 400,000 people together as an audience.
Penelope liked the lyrics, but also noted that the songs were based on what happened to people and it was a little scary.
Bela appreciated that there were a lot of female artists, Woodstock happened August 15-18, 1969, and that many British bands were influenced by Black American music.
Lillian especially liked Here Comes the Sun. Lyrics in the listening station were both happy and sad and she enjoyed the sounds of the instruments.
Zoey noted the lyrics are different from what you hear today, that it was old music, and some of the videos had black and white scenes.
I hear there’s a hint to our next month’s theme in the newsletter. See if you can figure it out with your students!