So I've spent the last couple of hours working on the lesson I'm teaching tomorrow. We're doing a poetry unit, and most of the students want to talk about rap, listen to rap, write rap... So I'm doing a short history and a lesson based on a Kanye West song (Family Business). I'll be curious to see if they'll actually take on writing something or
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"Dust in the Wind" (Kansas)
"Little Boxes" (Pete Seeger)
"Thirty Thouasand Tons of Bananas" (Harry Chapin)
"Cat's in the Cradle" (Harry Chapin)
"Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin)
and the one current song he used was "Kyrie Eleison" (Mr. Mister). This was in 1985. I want to say he also used "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," but I'm not positive about that. It sure fits though!
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I actually saw Mr. Mister in concert. The Bangles were the opening act! I believe it was 1986, at the Allentown fairgrounds. And, lapsed Catholic that I was, that song spoke to me!
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