Thursday, 14 April 2011

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.


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
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3 comments:

  1. bmsgrade4c15 April 2011 at 05:15

    Hey class 4C I found a new word called RESENTMENT.We could use this new word in the protest song in class.

    Alek the helper

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  2. bmsgrade4c15 April 2011 at 05:30

    Maybe next we can use at the back ism,tion or adverbs as rhyming couplets.Isabel unicef

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  3. Lona15 April 2011 at 12:24

    people wake up, get up, stand up for childrens' rights,
    get up, stand up for our rights

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