Hip-Hop Pedagogy Education: Academic songwriting for students
Discover the power of Hip-Hop Pedagogy. Integrate authentic hip-hop elements, songwriting tips, and more into instruction for kids and teens.
Lesson Plan: Writing Academic Raps
* How To Write Vocabulary Rhymes * Many students say that memorizing vocabulary words is a struggle, so we designed a simple lesson plan to help students learn, master and retain difficult vocabulary by writing a rhyme. This exercise can be done while a beat is playing (free beats are available here) or without music. Step 1. Choose Your Vocab Word and Pre-teach In this case, let’s use the word vain – an SAT-level vocabulary word that students might have to grapple with as early as middle school. A. Teach the word and the definition: Vain (adj.) too proud, into…