Three World Religion Songs - The Galloway School

In Felicia McCrarys World History course at The Galloway School, students demonstrate what they have learned about Hinduism and Buddhism through song. The students are instructed to write a song to a popular tune about the religion that they are assigned. The song has to have at least four verses and contain at least ten solid facts about the religion. Students bring props, some play guitar, and most have arranged choreography. Felicia McCrary says that the writing and performing of a song is a great example of how Galloway allows a teacher's autonomy to encourage creative academic expression. In my 12 years of doing this activity, it is always the first time that I get to see the personality of the gang that I am working with...and inevitably a shy kid or two will come out of their shells. Note that there are only two or three basic requirements. Nowhere in the assignment do I require a guitar or choreography, but the students bring this to the assignment themselves. Now what in this is educational? Although guitars and choreography may seem like fluff, this whole activity is linked to Brain Based learning. There is movement and rhyme and dance and laughter. Studies show that activities like this where the facts are set to music, and particularly where kids write their own lyrics, ensure that more information is stored in their long term memories. The kids take a quiz on the concepts of Hinduism and Buddhism about ten minutes after their performances. The quiz asks for a great deal of application of concepts, not just rote memorization. Inevitably several kids will be humming their songs or their classmates trying to recall facts as they take the quiz.

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• hinduism
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• singing
• galloway
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[cocodukes19]

Hahaha my social studiez teacher at Sutton (Mr.Weatherly) Made us do a religion rap.... It was so funn.!! xD

[serendipity986]

I LOVE THIS CLASS! :)

[serendipity986]

I LOVE THIS CLASS.

[serendipity986]

I love this class.