No, Thank You, John Lesson Plan

Songs of Rejection

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will compare and contrast "No, Thank You, John" with songs related to the same subject

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

Structure:

Through discussion, students should now understand the fundamental story of "No, Thank You, John": it's a romantic rejection. How has that subject been explored in other texts, and particularly in music, that the students know?

Divide students into small groups and ask them to pick a song where the speaker is the person romantically rejecting somebody else. If they don't have a song idea of their own, you might assign them...