Saturday, October 27, 2007
Funny thing at school...
The school choir went to a nursing home to perform this week. It had a profound effect on a few of my students, which I thought was cool. Anyway, two of them returned to my last class of the day singing. It started with "I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone." So I sang along. Imagine their surprise that the algebra teacher knew the words to this song. Then they went into "Bridge Over Troubled Water," another song I know. After a few more songs, I finally realized that they had no idea that these had been popular songs in the 70's. At least they knew the Beatles sang "Let it Be." And I totally impressed them with knowing that the Fugees remade "Killing Me Softly" and I could sing it like the Fugees. (One of the saddest things about Howard Dean not becoming president was that he was going to make an executive order for the Fugees to start performing together again!)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
A great story! Teaching can be such fun sometimes when these spontaneous enjoyable moments happen. I still remember sixth graders singing a song they made up for me about Daily Oral Language, the drill that we used at the beginning of each class. Until then I had thought they were a rather dull group!
Post a Comment