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"We Didn't Start the Fire" Activity

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Grade Level Grades 6-8
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"We Didn't Start the Fire" Activity

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1. Talk to the students about what they know from history in 1949-1989
2. Introduce Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" & have them jot down any person, place, event
3. Then have a discussion and students will watch the video of the song & jot down even more information.
4. Tell the students they are going to rewrite Billy Joel's song with updated history
5. Student's research 2-3 years for the history that happened then each group will compose 4 lines to the new version of "We Didn't Start the Fire".
6. Attached is sample of student's work
WSHT.6.4 , WSHT.7.4 , WSHT.8.4

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Lesson_plan__We_didn't_start_the_fire.docx

February 13, 2020
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Group_4_-we_didn't_start_the_fire.docx

February 13, 2020
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4.0
2 Reviews
I love this idea!
Katie Gould
March 20, 2017
Fun activity great cross curriculum activity
Vwtheresa
June 29, 2014
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