Persuasive+Songs

Persuasive songs
http://worldowiki.wikispaces.com/HootenanyThere is a genre of songs that were created in order to convince people of something. Since students need to learn to write persuasively, singing some of these songs and studying how these songs try to persuade may be both motivating and helpful. http://ed214.wikispaces.com/Black+History+Month+possibilitiesThis is a set of resources I gathered in order for a group of students to create a presentation for Black History Month. These are Civil Rights songs, which are persuasive songs.

After singing some of these songs and learning about the events that inspired them, in groups students can write a persuasive song about a current event.