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**Song Choices for Each Class:** Niedermayer: "True Colors" or "Should I Stay of Should I Go" Linnenburger: "We're Not Gonna Take It" or "Walking On Sunshine" Abad: "Man in the Mirror" or "Eye of the Tiger" Kick: "Safety Dance" or "Livin' on A Prayer" 5th graders, you are in charge of creating interesting introduction speaking parts for each song of our concert. The best speaking parts for each song will eventually be filmed and green screened for the concert. We want you to be creative and come up with something unique, however, here are a few things that your speaking parts need to be successful:

1) One or more interesting historical events from the year that the song was released. These historical events should be important events and may or may not relate to the subject of the song you are introducing.

2) Some important information about the song you are introducing. For example, composer, lyricist, performer(s), album the song was released on, the recording company that released the album, chart placement (was it ever in the top 10 songs on Billboard?).

3) The parts should be written in the form of a script for 4-6 speakers (see below for an example of a script).



4) Make the script in the form of a MTV news report (see the video below).

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5) Feel free to include references to other important Pop musicians from the 80's (hey, they could even be characters in your script).

6) Your script should be around 3-6 pages long and take about 2-4 minutes to speak/act out.

References to use for song information: []

@http://www.allmusic.com/

References to use for historical event information:

@http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade80.html

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s

@http://www.fromthe80s.com/history/

@http://www.history.com/topics/1980s