Revision Songs: Highway to an A (Ali Cobby Eckermann) - GAMIFIED!

GAMIFIED! - bringing fun into the senior classroom - learning through play

Gamified! is my NEW resource series on TPT. Through incorporating play into the high school English classroom students are motivated, stimulated and supported to develop the skills, concepts and language they need to succeed.

How often does a catchy tune get stuck in your head? Utilise this tendency to remember songs for your students’ advantage. This downloadable package helps students with a unit studying the poetry of Ali Cobby Eckermann.

"Don’t need rhythm,

Don’t need rhyme,

Freeverse is the easiest thing to define…"

This zipfile contains three files:

• an audio file recording of the song (set to the tune of AC/DC’s ‘Highway to Hell’)

• jpeg with lyrics

• jpeg as a foundation for a lesson with techniques and concepts explained

This is a standalone song can be used to revise the techniques and concepts found in the poetry of Ali Cobby Eckermann, as it is aligned with the IB Diploma Literature Syllabus AND the NSW HSC English Syllabus.