This week I really enjoyed my work as Artist-in-Residence in Albemarle County schools working with three 5th grade classrooms. The students were working on writing stories and learning all about plot, rising and falling action, climax, character studies.
In my song, "Choose the Sky" we analyzed the plot for various elements.
We talked about a plot where a problem is resolved. When I asked the children, "What is the problem in this song?"
The problem is talked about in these lyrics:
"Sometimes I get lost inside a thought
nowhere to go
A story that, only I know
I need to get some perspective."
A: "She just needed some space. " "She needed to chill out."
When I asked them, "What is the climax? Where the problem is most stated?
A: "Nowhere to go."
Then we worked on the resolution of this problem. Students had no trouble finding it with my lyrics:
"When walking out into the day
choose the sky, choose the sky
the sun will renew, let it in you."
It was a lot of fun to work with these young writers afterwards and help them develop their own stories and poems.
Choose the Sky!
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