quote:Burton said she knew the assignment had been successful when one of her students spotted a child on the playground wall and said, "Hey, Mrs. Burton, he's on the rampart!"
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"a song they sang every morning"
All good Americans should.
Tsssk, kids these days.
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Given that these stories very rarely give one enough information to tell what exactly happened I could see how this might be a useful idea for an assignment.
Take a song or poem that is deemed important for the students to understand and/or think about and modify the language. The entire point, in fact, might be to teach them what the words mean by making them define them as part of a project.
Not saying that is what happened - but it is an example of what might have happened.
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I find myself liking the idea. As was pointed out in the article, at least some kids did learn the words. Seems like as good a method as any. And heck, they're learning to use reference materials, too.
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The tune for the Star spangled banner was originally from an 18th century drinking song. Which makes a strange kind of sense.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: I find myself liking the idea. As was pointed out in the article, at least some kids did learn the words. Seems like as good a method as any. And heck, they're learning to use reference materials, too.
i didn't read about any kids learning the words. a "playground wall" and a "rampart" are two very very different things. [edited for spelling mistake]
quote:Originally posted by Snay: Stupid Indianians.
That's Hoosiers, bitch
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quote:Burton said the students intend to update the words to the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence later this year.
The little idiots will probably just nick Bill Pullman's speech for Independence Day.
I like the way that one class - the ones having the problems with the words in the first place - conducted this exercise and as a result ended up learning what the words meant, a research project they could perhaps have been set in the first place. Now countless further generations of Hoosier schoolkids will get to grow up with the new revised lyrics, until those are judged too difficult. Eventually the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" will just go "la, la, la. . ."
In the Spring they are going to simplify and rearrange the Bill of Rights in an effort to more accurately reflect the power structure of the present regime.
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