Let’s rock our classrooms

The idea is an inspiration from a student of mine who added a comment on the class blog to the link I added there and Ken Wilson’s asking on twitter if there were any Elvis fans out there and then I thought ‘yay, I have  great ideas for the first lesson of the new decade. We will start tomorrow so this is what I’m planning to do.

My students will prepare a project on Elvis Presley.

1. We will watch a video of a song  and they will fill in the gaps.

Listen to the song and fill in the gaps

In the ghetto

As the —————- flies
On a —————- and gray Chicago mornin’
A poor little baby —————— is born
In the ghetto
And his ————————- cries
’cause if there’s one thing that she don’t need
it’s another —————- mouth to feed
In the ghetto

People, don’t you understand
the child needs a helping hand
or he’ll grow to be an angry ——————– some day
Take a look at you and me,
are we too —————— to see,
do we simply turn our heads
and look the other way

Well the world turns
and a hungry little boy with a runny nose
plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto

And his —————- burns
so he starts to roam the ——————- at night
and he learns how to —————
and he learns how to ————-
In the ghetto

Then one night in desperation
a young man breaks away
He buys a gun, steals a car,
tries to run, but he don’t get far
And his mama cries

As a crowd gathers ’round an angry young man
face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto

As her young man —————-,
on a ———————– and gray Chicago mornin’,
——————- little baby child is born
In the ghetto