Today was a pretty interesting day that showed a great amount of maturity in my students. I honestly was really impressed with the comments that people made.
First, we printed the lyrics to Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get in On”, listened to the song, and highlighted persuasive language in BLUE and highlighted references to TIME in yellow. Answer the three questions and drop off your highlighted lyrics (if you were absent so I can give you credit for highlighting along with the three questions).
We talked about the speaker and his audience (a girl) and analyzed that relationship. We highlighted evidence of carpe diem (time) in the poem, highlighted IRONY in the song, and highlighted references to LOVE in the song. We also specifically talked about how the song was contradictory and how it related to TIME (“stop beating ’round the bush”, and “this minute”).
We were really puzzled about the lyrics, especially the phrase “threatin’ you, baby”, so I did a little research. First, I wanted to make sure that I got the lyrics right, and it seems I did. So then, I went to Wikipedia and read this little tidbit. It seems Mr. Gaye had a troubled childhood and used his music to work through some of his issues. The power of poetry!
We talked about consent, and how the audience in the song has obviously NOT given consent.
Students then sat there puzzled as to why we listened to that song, so we read “To His Coy Mistress” to explain. It’s the original “Let’s Get It On”, just much creepier.
You can download my notes in a Word document so you don’t have to copy notes. Just save it wherever you save my stuff.
I showed you eagles twirling and how that fit into the poem.
Lastly, we did the Syllogism Pyramid foldable. You can find the template in LMS.
For each triangle, create a text box and write the following:
- If… (1st stanza – lines 1-20) + image
- But… (2nd stanza – lines 21-32) + image
- So… (3rd stanza – lines 33-46) + image
You will need to ROTATE the text box. Grab the little green ball and turn it. Make sure that the text box faces the hypotenuse. Don’t worry about the text that is already on the pyramid – that will be hidden when you fold it up.
