This module completely relates to me as an English teacher. Two of our units that I teach are poetry and persuasion. Earlier this year, while teaching the persuasion unit, I had my students look at music as persuasive or motivational. Their goal was to find out how songs are persuasive or motivational? What exactly do musicians and artists do to make their songs stand out and get a reaction from the audience? Students not only analyzed the lyrics of their favorite songs, but I also played multiple songs for them and had them respond to the sound of the music. Students were able to make the connection and elaborate on the feelings, emotions, and thoughts that they experienced with the songs. It was found that music creates experiences for people that may be similar or unique. Overall, music makes people feel and think a certain way depending on the words used in the lyrics and the melody.
With the poetry unit, students identified and interpreted the use of figurative language and sounds devices in poems to determine meaning. Lyrics in music are poetry. The sounds in the music are the part of the sounds devices used in poetry; rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition. Reading the readings this way, was great recognizing much of it from teaching poetry in my classroom.
I absolutely love incorporating music with my lessons. Music speaks to students. It’s something of high interest and implementing it in the classroom only helps to engage. It makes learning an experience for them and most likely a compelling one. At the end of the school year, I always try to ask my students about what their favorite thing was they learned this year. So many times, I have had them say it was the music and poetry lessons. Therefore, if it’s an aspect that stands out in their mind and is memorable, it was a compelling experience for them.
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