Summer Teacher Institute Lesson Plans

Lesson plans from the Summer Teacher Institute.

• STI Lesson 1: Keep on Pushing: Popular Music and the Civil Rights Movement
• STI Lesson 2: Langston Hughes and the Blues
• STI Lesson 3: Fifties/Sixties Musical Playwriting Workshop
• STI Lesson 4 - The Vietnam War: A Popular Music Approach
• STI Lesson 5 - Rockin’ the World: Rock and Roll and Social Protest in 20th Century America
• STI Lesson 6 - Pink Floyd and the Carpe Diem Theme
• STI Lesson 7 - Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices: Jimi Hendrix “The Wind Cries Mary”
• STI Lesson 8 - Using Rock as Primary Source Material
• STI Lesson 9 - Woody Guthrie and The Grapes of Wrath
• STI Lesson 10 - Words/Music/Images: Interpretation and Meaning A Motivational Activity
• STI Lesson 11 - The Cigar Box Guitar
• STI Lesson 12 - The American Dream
• STI Lesson 13 - Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum
• STI Lesson 14 - Who Rocks Your World?
• STI Lesson 15 - You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone: The Changing American Landscap
• STI Lesson 16 - Mending Walls: Barriers in Communications
• STI Lesson 17 - A Modest Proposal: Irony Made Understandable with Rock and Roll
• STI Lesson 18 - From Mark Twain to David Bowie: The Artistic Persona vs. The Individual
• STI Lesson 19 - Runaway Slaves
• STI Lesson 20 - Slices of American Pie: The 1960s Through Music
• STI Lesson 21 - Empathy and the Vietnam War
• STI Lesson 22 - And We Were All in One Place: Youth Culture and the Rock Festival
• STI Lesson 23 - Break on Through: The Poetry of Jim Morrison
• STI Lesson 24 - Warhol’s Foxy Lady: Pop Art
• STI Lesson 25 - Vietnam Revisted
• STI Lesson 26 - Individual vs. Social Responsibility: From Camus to the Cure
• STI Lesson 27 - I Went to the Crossroads: The Faust Theme in Music, Film and Literature
• STI Lesson 28 - The Electric Hearth
• STI Lesson 29 - Know Thyself: Reflections of the Adolescent Identity Crisis in Rock and Roll
• STI Lesson 30 - Trouble for the United States in the Middle East: The Reagan-Bush Years
• STI Lesson 31 - Syncopation and Rhythm in Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Rap Music
• STI Lesson 32 - The John Travolta Syndrome
• STI Lesson 33 - 8-Rap
• STI Lesson 34 - “And Still I Rise” Proud Black Women Understanding the poetry of Maya Angelou through the lyrics of two female rappers
• STI Lesson 35 - The Melting of the Cold War
• STI Lesson 36 - Using Cross-Genre Comparisons to Find the Message in Hip-Hop
• STI Lesson 37 - Teaching “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” with Popular Music
• STI Lesson 38 - Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, The Minstrels
• STI Lesson 39 - People Everyday: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Music Literacy
• STI Lesson 40 - Rock and Poetry: A Thematic Project
• STI Lesson 41 - Teaching Economics and Rock and Roll: Unemployment
• STI Lesson 42 - The Bill of Rights is a-Rockin
• STI Lesson 43 - Screening Coleridge’s Fantasies: Using Popular Music as a Bridge to Literacy
• STI Lesson 44 - Compositional Techniques: Are There Similarities Between
• STI Lesson 45 - Democracy…Not Yet!
• STI Lesson 46 - Feminism Does Not Have to be an F-Word
• STI Lesson 47 - GET UP, STAND UP: FIghting for Rights Around the World
• STI Lesson 48 - Getting Inside The Outsiders Through Music
• STI Lesson 49 - Timbre: Identifying the Tone Color of the Saxophone
• STI Lesson 50 - Using Music to Teach Personal Narrative: “Snapshots” and “Crossing-the-Border” Song
• STI Lesson 51 - Song Form: From the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Andrea Bocelli
• STI Lesson 52 - Scops, Rappers and You: Historians with Style!