Protest Songs Booklet and Unit Of Work

This booklet explores protest songs, including looking at existing protest songs, and guides the students into creating their own.

The booklet starts with some flexible starter pages which can be used for retrieval practice or listening etc. Then a breakdown of the lessons included is as follows:
Lesson 1 - Where is the Love - Analysis of Lyrics and learning the Hook.
Lesson 2 - Where is the Love - Learning the Hook and Chords.
Lesson 3 - Where is the Love - Fitting the Hook and Chords together.
Lesson 4 - Where is the Love - Learning the Guitar part.
Lesson 5&6 - Where is the Love - Group rehearsal and performance.
Lesson 7 - Creative Remix of Where is the Love.
Lesson 8 - Free Nelson Mandela creative vocal task.
Lesson 9 - Stimuli for a Protest Song and starting to create lyrics in pairs.
Lesson 10 - Finishing lyrics and starting instrumental parts for own Protest Song.
Lesson 11&12 - Rehearsing and performing/recording their own protest songs.

At the back of the booklet there are several other sets of lyrics for other protest songs (Dear Mr President - Pink, Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye), as they may be a useful resource to study during a starter activity.
There is assessment criteria and a space to award grades along with feedback on the assessment performance of the students’ own protest song.
A knowledge organiser is located on the final page.

*The booklet assumes some work has been done previously on creating chords/a tune. Ideal topic with year 8 or year 9.