Using the “One Minute in Time” Lesson
WritingFix has a fabulous (and free-to-use) on-line lesson inspired by The Cure’s song, 10:15 on a Saturday Night. Click here to read the lesson’s overview and have access to all its resources.
If you’ve used this lesson with your students, we want to hear:
1) What worked well for you with the lesson; or…
2) What adaptations did you make to have success with your students; or…
3) Anything else you think other teachers would benefit from hearing.
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1 Response to Using the “One Minute in Time” Lesson
June 16th, 2010 at 10:42 am
I love the idea of using music to teach poetry. In a recent lesson that I did with my boys we used a song by CAKE (Short skirt,long jacket) to discuss simile and metaphor. The song has many great examples. “I want a girl with a mind like a diamond, she’s as sharp as a tack” etc.