edu3234- using songs to teach literary text

On 15 October 2009, my group presented our assigned task which is using songs to teach literary text. We have spent quite a few days to search and discuss for this topic. We have presented a text by Hillary Tham entitled ‘Offerings’ and we choose an evergreen song as well. ‘The One I gave My Heart to’ is the title of the song. It was sung by the late Aaliyah in 1997.
To my surprise, two groups have chosen the same songs and with the same literary texts. However, I found their choices amazing as this song really fits the storyline of ‘Cinderella Girl’. I realized that many of my classmates enjoy their time in this class as they are up-to-date to new great songs. Songs is a good choice when the students lose interest in the classroom. They may listen to the songs and sing along if they want to. Sometimes song depicts reality in life thus this is a good opportunity for teachers to instil moral values to the lesson that they taught.
In the activities provided by us, we stated that songs can be used at the set induction stage in which the students are instructed to listen to the song and underline specific info that the teachers will further explained in the next stage. The next activity that we suggested is find picture or captures a few photos that describe relationship. The students will then be asked to come up with a tagline for their photos.