 "Bridges" is a magical collaboration between folk-rocker Ani DiFranco and the spoken word poet Utah Phillips. DiFranco added music to Phillips' poem "Briges" that uses bridges and rivers as metaphors to talk about time, history, stories and other things handed down from generation to generation.
Mindblue's differentiated lesson plan is filled with thought provoking multi-disciplinary activities that link up nicely with the study of an epic poem like The Odyssey, Thornton Wilder's play Our Town or a film like Pleasantville.
The "Bridges" BlueSong Guide would also be an effective way to introducing the study of history and the challenges time, events and stories present to historians.
THEMES/SUBJECTS Classification/Taxonomies History Intergenerational Communication Life cycles Memoir Memory Oral History Past vs. Present Time Tradition
LIT TERMS Figurative Language Metaphor
LITERATURE LINKS Oral Histories Memoirs The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven - Sherman Alexie Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself - Judy Blume The Things They Carried / In The Lake of The Wood - Tim O'Brien 1984 - George Orwell Maus - Art Speigelman The Time Machine - H.G. Wells Our Town - Thornton Wilder
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