Exploring and analysing Kendrick Lamar’s song Alright from the To Pimp A Butterfly album.
Introduces the album, the butterfly metaphor and the speaker from the album Kdot.
Includes:
PowerPoint 19 pages
Context and history information
Trayvon Martin and Black Lives Matter
Analyse the poem in stages - introduction, verses, pre chorus, chorus, outro and poem.
Explore different poetic techniques and the purpose and effect
Accompanied worksheet with analytical questions
Accompanied song lyrics (clean) and blank space for annotation notes.
Video links to song and protests.
Essay questions
Paragraph questions.