Notion Places and forms of power.
Key question: Are citizens powerful enough to oppose the governmen't involvement in a conflict ?
Name 1
Name a song that changed your life or that you’ve learned by heart in 5 minutes.
What was your state of mind at that time?
Why do you think it influenced you?
Would you say that a song can be powerful?
Play song 1.
What do you know about this song?
Do you think it’s a modern song? Why?
What is its message?
What do you know about Ed Sheeran?
Can you sing one of his songs?
Who had sung this anti-war anthem before do you think?
What do you know about him?
Can you other songs he had sung?
2. Protest songs make a definition and give examples:
A protest song "is a song which is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events). It may be folk, classical, or commercial in genre. Among social movements that have an associated body of songs are the abolition movement, women's suffrage, the labor movement, the human rights movement, civil rights, the anti-war movement and 1960s counterculture, the feminist movement, the sexual revolution, the gay rights movement, animal rights movement, vegetarianism and veganism, and environmentalism..." (Wikipedia)
By silverteacher
