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Grades 7–12
6 Sessions: 55 Minutes Each
Informational, Media, Narrative, Persuasive

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Motown Music & History

by Andrea Cisneros, Jeff Shi, Daniel Reck, & Frances Martin, 826michigan
1. Genre Study of Liner Notes
2. Listening Party
3. Close-Reading Lyrics
4. Research
5. Writing!
6. Revising, Editing, and Sharing
Students will use music as a lens to learn about a historical period and research primary and secondary sources to write their own liner notes.
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Research

In this session, writers step back from their songs to learn about the time and place when the song was written, and about the life and career of the artists who wrote and recorded it.
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What Your Students Will Learn

In this lesson, writers research more information to understand their song and the life and career of the song’s creator to support and expand their liner notes.

What Your Students Will Produce

Students take notes to organize and prepare for writing their own liner notes, listening with purpose, reading lyrics carefully, and investigating a song’s origins.

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