We are in the process of finishing up our study of music videos and song lyrics. Earlier this week, students worked in partnerships to 'deconstruct' the lyrics for the song Big Yellow Taxi by the The Counting Crows. Partnerships highlighted song lines, and then used their inferring skills to annotate what they felt the artist meant by the words. We then gathered together as a whole class to discuss possible messages for the song itself. As always, the thinking was rich! Our anchor chart below shows how we were not only able to infer 'hidden messages' within this song, but also how we are becoming quite skilled at attaching proof (text evidence) in order to justify our thinking.
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