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Excellent group work this past week. Impressive interaction with the use of the wiki. Your finished work, posted above, was very through, complete, and clearly written. I think that many kids would be interested to see how school was different during this time period. While there are many things that are the same, there are many things that are very different. Your Word document brought up many of these interesting points. I found this recoding to be interesting as well as the analysis and review the two of you prepared. Very good work this week. Chris.

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Hello, I was wondering if there was any specific ones you would prefer to analyze for this assignment? If not, I have no problem choosing them, but I didn't want to begin my analysis before knowing exactly what ones we agreed upon. Please let me know and I will get started. Thank you! -Tara

Hi Tara, I listened to a bunch of them tonight - a bunch of them have so much static, they really couldn't be used in the classroom. But here is one - In the little red school house - the static isn't bad, the lyrics understandable and are amusing - it could start a conversation about attitudes about school. Sound ok - or did you find another you would rather use? I'll be on again tomorrow night and can work on this assignment.

LuAnn

This one is fine with me :) What are your thoughts about us each completing the NARA worksheet and reflecting on the questions provided, then combining and contrasing each of our answers? Mine will be posted by tomorrow afternoon because I have to have surgery, unfortunately, Friday morning and will not be able to do anything over the weekend. I will be sure to have everything needed for the assignment to be completed beforehand, though. Talk to you soon! -Tara

Hey LuAnn! After trying to locate the lyrics everywhere on the internet and was unsuccessful, I decided to try to break down the song's words myself. This could be a great assignment or use of the song with actual classes to help them learn and understand the message behind it. From what I could understand, this is what I have gathered (please feel free to alter anythign you feel may be different words. I tried my best, but had difficulties with parts of the song):

In the little red school house… Sometimes, I think of all the little fools Back in the days, when I used to go to school When you were a kid see how you hated The place where we were educated Although I didn’t know it I was lucky then. Oh how I wish I was there again

In the little red school house With my book and slate, Oh those were the happy days In the little red school house In the little red school house I was always late Do you remember bill When you were a scholar In the days of your How Id stand right up and holler”two and two is three” When we should have been learning, about the golden rule. We didn’t want the golden rule; our little hearts were yearning for the swimming pool

When I was late the teacher said to bring your dad right away You brought your dad and after that you came every day Each morn when mother said it’s after 8 Then she’d say hurry...you surely will be late When I was late it made the teacher awfully mad I walked down the road with footsteps lagging But you remember we were always bragging I said when I get bigger there’s no more school for me But now that’s where we want to be

In the little red school house With my book and slate, Oh those were the happy days In the little red school house In the little red school house I was always late Do you remember bill When you were a scholar In the days of your How Id stand right up and holler”two and two is three” When we should have been learning, about the golden rule. We didn’t want the golden rule; our little hearts were yearning for the swimming pool

Because I was so acted like a clown You got a good licking and you couldn’t sit down Oh teach I wanna be in the little red school house

10 o’clock the spelling lessons just begun Johnny pulled an 8 ball just for fun Hit the teachers ear with an awful spat She turned around and said who did that Pretty little pursey in the very front row lifts up his hand and said I know Then little jonnie whispers to the teachers pride you just wait until I get you outside Johnny was told to standup with his face to the wall He said I don’t wanna and tried to stall If I stood up there I take a normal chance I gota great big pair in the feet of my __

Hopefully this helps both of us with this assignment! :) -Tara

Tara, That was great work with the lyrics - it helped a lot! Here is my NARA. Feel free to just add/edit it - or complete your own. But it would be fine with me if you just edit mine - I'm sure you have better than comments than some of mine. So go ahead and change/delete what you want, then this part of the assignment will be done.

Here is what I came up with for the second part of the assignment - again, feel free to add/delete/polish/expand on what I've written. Hope all goes well with your surgery. I can finish things up after you look at what I added tonight.

We selected this recording for several reasons. First, the quality of the recording is good. It sounds good and is very understandable. Second, there is a humorous tone to the recording. It will appeal to students and catch their attention. Third, the subject matter of the song has a good message for students to hear.
 * Describe your reasons for selecting this particular recording. Explain why you believe this recording could be effective with students.
 * Describe at least 5 ways the recording you selected could be used in the classroom. Try to expand ideas for different subject areas and/or grade levels. For each lesson idea, include a brief description of how this activity could help promote critical thinking skills in students.
 * 1) For Elementary students the recording could start a conversation about what school was like in the ‘old days’. Our 4th grade takes a field trip to Quiet Valley – a historical school house. This would also be a good conversation starter about what to expect on the field trip. This will promote critical thinking skills by students imaging what it would have been like in school then. Then on the field trip they will experience it. On return could compare/contrast what they expected and what they experienced.
 * 2) For a high school English class, this would be a good starter for a writing assignment about the value of a good education, or about their early memories of school. This will promote critical thinking skills as they determine what to write and how to express themselves clearly.
 * 3) For younger elementary this could also start a conversation about what school was like in the ‘old days’. They could make a list of what is the same and what is different.
 * 4) Elementary students could analyze the lyrics and identify proper behavior at school.

LuAnn, we had very similar viewpoints with our worksheets, but some of it differed. In order to submit our final one, we can just combine the two. I transferred our final reflections for the questions provided onto a word document and posted it to the worksheet area provided above. My responses to the questions are as follows: 1. Describe your reasons for selecting this particular recording. Explain why you believe this recording could be effective with students. This is a great way to demonstrate the overall feel of schools in the year 1922. The students were still kids and had the tendancy to misbehave or stretch the rules, but what I thought was a valuable lesson was what they had to do to get to school (walk versus being driven like today's kids) and what happened if the parent stepped into a situation. These days, a majority of students would continue the behavior after the parents were aware of the situation. In the song, it was clearly stated "When I was late the teacher said to bring your dad right away, You brought your dad and after that you came every day".

2. Describe at least 5 ways the recording you selected could be used in the classroom. Try to expand ideas for different subject areas and/or grade levels. For each lesson idea, include a brief description of how this activity could help promote critical thinking skills in students.
 * 1) For a high school english class, it would be a good task to have them thoroughly analyze the song and write down the lyrics word for word like I did. After doing so, they will be able to look further into what it is saying and then research different terms used and behaviors expressed throughout the piece.
 * 2) For a high school History class, the students could reflect upon the events of that time and how life was like. They could provide insight to the lyrics and research what influences resulted in the outcome of the song.
 * 3) Another idea for a high school English class would be to rewrite the song after analyzing it. The students could rewrite the ideas of the song with up-to-date influences and termilology. This would be a creative poetry piece to challange their individuality and critical thinking skills.
 * 4) For a high school Physical Education class, you could have the students complete an analysis based on the song's effectiveness on their motivation to move. You can use the tmepo and background music as an example of what people in the year 1922 fount to be interesting and entertaining music to choose. They can compare it with a song selected from today's musical choices.
 * 5) Any age music students can learn, rehearse, and sing the song as a part of their class. They can look .into the actual notes of the song and even play the piece with instruments as the other students sing the lyrics.

Tara, Thanks for combining our thougghts - it looks good!

LuAnn