TARGET: Intro/overview of the Blues for grades 3-5

[Shelley Paul <sbpaul@MINDSPRING.COM>]

Hi, everyone.
I will be leading some writing workshops with grades 3-5 in the coming
weeks, and one of our exercises will be to write "blues" poems modeled after
a Langston Hughes poem. By way of introducing the lesson, I would like to
provide students with a brief (3-5 minutes) but honorable overview of the
origins of Blues music, leading up to "the blues" also being synonymous with
feeling sad. I want to do justice to this amazingly rich part of
African-American/American musical history, and the oppression it arose from,
so am turning to you all for help.

Thank you,
Shelley Paul
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Shelley Paul
Poet, Teacher & Performer
Atlanta, GA
http://sbpaul.home.mindspring.com
sbpaul@mindspring.com

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