Group+D

Hey Jen - Thanks so much for starting our discussion.
 * **Describe your reasons for selecting this particular recording. Explain why you believe this recording could be effective with students.**

Jen: We selected this recording because it is about school, and it is entitled "In the Little Red Schoolhouse". This recording would be appropriate to use with students because it is about going to school and learning. It also emphasize the importance of education in those that look back and wish that opportunity did not pass them by.


 * **Describe at least 5 ways the recording you selected could be used in the classroom. Try to expand ideas for different subject areas and/or grade levels. For each lesson idea, include a brief description of how this activity could help promote critical thinking skills in students.**

Jen's ideas:
 * Social Studies: we could compare and contrast what schools look like today vs. the year the song was made using a venn diagram--comparing and contrasting is a critical thinking skill
 * Health--feelings: we could compare and contrast how students feel about school today vs. how the students felt in the song

Jim's - I completed the sound recording analysis worksheet it is in recent changes All of these ideas will require students to research the different points and then draw conclusions from their research.
 * Have a debate about using corporal punishment in schools
 * Music class - compare the music of the 1920's to today's
 * Science class - compare how music was recorded in the 1920's to today.

Bryan's:
 * Phys.Ed - students use dance steps from the time period.
 * English - have student pick out literary elements in order to make personal connections with school perceptions today
 * Social Studies - does the song and lyrics of the times epitomize the social culture of the roaring twenties?
 * Literature - discussing the //Great Gatsby// in reference to the attitude to the song wrtiter's depiction of the times.