It's not Fair

Another powerful learning engagement was a game we played to demonstrate how the distribution of the world's wealth and resources can at times be unfair. The class came up wth some thoughful ways of making this fairer.

Our protest song- rhythm and tunes and Bridge Ranking

After a very productive protest song workshop today we have chosen two existing tunes to work with when writing our own protest song about child labour.
See below:

Imagine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_km0u64OLng&feature=related
Get up , Stand up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7iXcKKpdx0

We began making a diamond ranking of important features of our protest song- this evolved into a whole new visible thinking strategy- A Bridge ranking.
A bridge ranking has the bridge as the central idea of the song, at either side of the bridge are important factors that support the song and underneath are additional features that add to the song.
Very creative 4C.

Writing our own protest song

This week in 4c we have been analyzing the structure of various existing protest songs, beginning with Get up Stand Up and leading to Imagine.

We used expert groups to share information about the following 4 focus points:

1.       Repetition

2.       Rhyme

3.       Syllable count- rhythm

4.       Feelings and emotions

This will lead to a diamond ranking to decide on a checklist for the final assessment- writing our own protest song using the tune of imagine.

 Thanks to Alek's dad for the Bob Marley link.

Also watched a great clip of U2 performing with Jay Z in front of the Brandenburg Tor - double protest song Sunday Bloody Sunday with Get up stand up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOFQD8kVGU&feature=related

We are all looking forward to listening to the finished masterpieces.

3 Questions to rights (from Lucia)

1-What other rights should kids have?
2-How could we help kids without or with less rights?
3-How can we protect our rights?

Check List for a protest song by Alek

1. Rhythm
2. Repetition
3. Syllables
4. Feelings
5. Words that make you think about rights.
6. Alliteration
7. Capital letter at the beginning of a sentence.

Charity T Shirt Designers

We are now busy designing charity t-shirts from an idea presented to the class by Christine Mayer (Karim's Mum)
With the central idea of Simplicity, truth and love, the t- shirts will eventually raise money for children in Nepal, to provide them with the chance to go to school, have a warm meal everyday and to have a school uniform.
If you want share your designs ,  post a photograph of your sketch here.

Give Kids a Chance- Our first protest song

4C created their first class protest song- to be sung to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Give Peace a Chance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNU7jb1Syjs

We explored the following language features:

• Suffixes- ness, less, ful to create a rhyming pattern
• Use of syllables
• repetition or repeating patterns
• Use of artistic license

Here goes:

1,2,3,4...
Ev'rybody's talking about...
Sadness, tiredness, angriness
Sportless, respectless, soundless

Freedomless, restless

All we are saying…

Is give kids a chance

All we are saying…

Is give kids a chance

Ev'rybody's talking about...
Exploitedness, faintness, injuriness

Hopeless, speechless, airless

Careless, penniless

All we are saying…

Is give kids a chance

All we are saying…

Is give kids a chance

What we wanna talk about is...
Hopeful, peaceful, careful, thoughtful
Respectful, joyful, thankful, grateful
Healthful, harmonyful.


What we are saying...
Is give kids a chance
What we are saying...
Is give kids a chance

Can you post a new verse