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On American Music and PoetryFrank Sinatra New York New York
Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today.
Michael Jackson Man in the Mirror
Gotta make a change for once in my life It's gonna feel real good, Gonna make a difference, Gonna make it right.
As I turn up the collar on A favorite winter coat This wind is blowin' my mind I see the kids in the street With not enough to eat Who am I to be blind Pretending not to see their needs A summer's disregard A broken bottle top And a one man's soul They follow each other On the wind ya' know 'Cause they got nowhere to go That's why I want you to know:
I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make a change!..
I've been a victim of A selfish kinda love It's time that I realize There are some with no home Not a nickel to loan Could it be really pretending that they're not alone A willow deeply scarred Somebody's broken heart And a washed out dream They follow the pattern of the wind ya' see 'Cause they got no place to be That's why I'm starting with me.
I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make a change You gotta get it right, while you got the time 'Cause when you close your heart Then you close your mind… Langston Hughes Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred?
Ogden Nash That Reminds Me
Just imagine yourself seated on a shadowy terrace, And beside you is a girl who stirs you more strangely than a heiress. It is a summer evening at its most superb, And the moonlight reminds you that To Love is an active verb, And the stars are twinkling like anything, And a distant orchestra is playing some sentimental old Vienna thing, And your hand clasps hers, which rests there without shrinking, And after a silence fraught with romance you ask her what she is thinking, And she starts and returns from the moon-washed distances to the shadowy veranda, And says, Oh, I was wondering how many bamboo shoots a day it takes to feed a baby Giant Panda. Or you stand with her on a hilltop and gaze on a winter sunset, And everything is as starkly beautiful as a page from Sigrid Unset, And your arm goes round her waist and you make an avowal which for masterfully marshaled emotional content might have been a page of Ouida's or Thackeray's, And after a silence fraught with romance she says, I forgot to, order the limes for the Daiquiris. Or in twilight drawing room you have just asked the most momentous of questions, And after a silence fraught with romance she says, I think this little table would look better where that little table is, but then where would that little table go, have you any suggestions? And that's the way they go round hitting below our belts: It isn't that nothing is sacred to them, it's just that at the Sacred Moment they are always thinking of something else. Robert Frost Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire,
1) Choose any two well-known musicians from the USA and arrange a dialog between them. One should be a representative of the 50s-80s of the XX century, the other should belong to the generation of the XXI century.
2) Choose a song that would touch upon some social / political issues, bring it to the class and be ready to analyse its lyrics.
3) Make your own Top 10 American musicians list and be ready to explain and defend your choice. Bring the list in your class. Discuss it with your classmates and prepare 1 list of Top 10 American musicians for all. Mind, that everybody should agree on it.
4) Here is a table of top 10 American writers and their short descriptions. First, match them together. Second, write a 100-words review on any book by any of the writers mentioned below.
5) Organize a debate. Suggested statements are:
Half of the students should take a “pro”-position, supporting this statement, the other half should stick to “contra”-position, supporting the opposite viewpoint. Then, with pre-prepared arguments the sides should debate. There may be two judges to see who was more convincing and accurate in argumentations and announce the winner. 6) Write a composition named: “Things I like and things I don’t like about the US”
Key: 1-i; 2-e; 3-a; 4-j; 5-g; 6-h; 7-c; 8-d; 9-f;10-b.
Date: 2015-12-11; view: 822
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