My Action Research Basic Format:
There are a number of ways to incorporate subtitled activities into classroom routines. On this page, I will describe how the activities were done in my classrooms and I will post ongoing activities or links to other teachers activities.
DVD Musicals that I Have Used for SLS Activities
Collection of Musical Lyrics and Libretti, Scripts, and Texts
In my study of SLS use in a classroom this was my basic activity:
I prepped a musical DVD into '3-5 minute excerpts' and created corresponding worksheets. For cloze worksheets, I targeted phonics, sight words, poetic and literary devices and I generally included 2 or 3 short response questions. As I went on I customized to target different reading levels --but remember the real objective is a large group Impress Reading Activity crossed with Rehearsed Readings. Once the music had repeated 3 times I used partner groupings and small groups to check each other's responses and to grade activity.
(1) student watch three brief repetitions of DVD musical video with subtitling; (SLS played before classes, three repetitions after bell to start each class, and played during passing times.) (Use projection screen and good audio)
(2) while watching: complete cloze-style worksheets. Text of lyrics and dialogue with certain words blanked out based on a pattern, such as type of word, related vocabulary, alliterations, etc. My worksheets also included short comprehension questions.
The SLS source materials for this activity came from three popular story-musicals containing lyrics above my students’ instructional reading levels and were paired with class reading activities: Les Miserables with Hugo's novel, ‘Cats’ with ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’, 'Big River' with Huckleberry Finn. The activity included simple cloze worksheets and echo reading sing-a-longs. The idea is to promote the active tracking of the subtitling. Exercise was targeted to support reading strategies, story elements and vocabulary from related reading assignments. The majority of the SLS video materials came straight from the DVD subtitles and was gradually supplemented with higher quality SLS media, and provided a model for later student composed SLS presentations.
Les Miserables:
Complete Lyrics to Les Miserables:10th Anniversary Concert (1995)
This is a sample of subtitled DVD. Les Miserables: 10th Anniversary Dream Cast (2012) Please note that we began usng SLS with just decent quality subtitling.
DVD Musicals that I Have Used for SLS Activities
Collection of Musical Lyrics and Libretti, Scripts, and Texts
In my study of SLS use in a classroom this was my basic activity:
I prepped a musical DVD into '3-5 minute excerpts' and created corresponding worksheets. For cloze worksheets, I targeted phonics, sight words, poetic and literary devices and I generally included 2 or 3 short response questions. As I went on I customized to target different reading levels --but remember the real objective is a large group Impress Reading Activity crossed with Rehearsed Readings. Once the music had repeated 3 times I used partner groupings and small groups to check each other's responses and to grade activity.
(1) student watch three brief repetitions of DVD musical video with subtitling; (SLS played before classes, three repetitions after bell to start each class, and played during passing times.) (Use projection screen and good audio)
(2) while watching: complete cloze-style worksheets. Text of lyrics and dialogue with certain words blanked out based on a pattern, such as type of word, related vocabulary, alliterations, etc. My worksheets also included short comprehension questions.
The SLS source materials for this activity came from three popular story-musicals containing lyrics above my students’ instructional reading levels and were paired with class reading activities: Les Miserables with Hugo's novel, ‘Cats’ with ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’, 'Big River' with Huckleberry Finn. The activity included simple cloze worksheets and echo reading sing-a-longs. The idea is to promote the active tracking of the subtitling. Exercise was targeted to support reading strategies, story elements and vocabulary from related reading assignments. The majority of the SLS video materials came straight from the DVD subtitles and was gradually supplemented with higher quality SLS media, and provided a model for later student composed SLS presentations.
Les Miserables:
Complete Lyrics to Les Miserables:10th Anniversary Concert (1995)
This is a sample of subtitled DVD. Les Miserables: 10th Anniversary Dream Cast (2012) Please note that we began usng SLS with just decent quality subtitling.
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Valjean:
What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done? Become a __________ in the night _____________ a __________ on the run And have I __________ so _______ And is the hour so _________ That nothing remains but the cry of my _________, The cries in the dark that nobody ____________, _______ where I stand at the turning of the _____________? If there's another way to go I missed it twenty long years ago My life was a ________ that could never be _________ They gave me a number and murdered _____________ When they chained me and left me for ____________ Just for __________ a mouthful of ______________ Yet why did I allow that man To ___________ my soul and __________ me love? He ___________me like any other He gave me his _____________ He called me brother My life he ___________ for God above Can such things be? For I had come to hate this _____________ |
This __________ which had always_________ me
Take an eye for an eye! Turn your __________ into _____________! This is all I ________ lived for! This is all I have ____________! One word from him and I'd be back Beneath the________, upon the ___________ Instead he ___________ me my freedom, I feel my shame inside me like a _____________ He told me that I have a soul, How does he know? What ___________ came to move my life? Is there another way to go? I am reaching, but I fall And the night is closing in And I stare into the _________ To the ___________ of my sin I'll _________ now from the ___________ From the world of _______ ____________ ________ ___________ is nothing now Another story must begin! |
1) Find an example of metaphor in the text and explain.
2) Does Valjean believe that theft is acceptable? Support your answer with evidence from the text.
3) How is Valjean's story going to change?
Big River
Big River is the Musical version of Huckleberry Finn. There us no movie version yet. My class made Karaoke versions of the songs. There is a great Audio CD available on Amazon and there are multiple school productions - live performance clips available on YouTube.
Buy Music CD - Big River: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1985 Original Broadway Cast)
This one makes a great class sing-along, divide up the parts!
1) What is the setting?
2) How many conflicts can you identify?
Buy Music CD - Big River: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1985 Original Broadway Cast)
This one makes a great class sing-along, divide up the parts!
1) What is the setting?
2) How many conflicts can you identify?
Muddy Water
Short Sample: Karaoke
Short Sample: Karaoke
River in the Rain
1) In this song words and phrases can have multiple meanings. Find two good examples and explain the humor!
2) Does this sound like a love song to you? What does the river symbolize in the story? From the text, how do you know
1) In this song words and phrases can have multiple meanings. Find two good examples and explain the humor!
2) Does this sound like a love song to you? What does the river symbolize in the story? From the text, how do you know
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