Saturday, February 19, 2011

Motivating Teens to Read and Write!

Motivating Teens to Read and Write! Music, Lyrics, Poetry, and Prose are all intertwined with ease when taught, and inspired using motivational music. 
     Raison d'etre is French for "reason for being," and students who can’t read feel they have no reason for being in school. Students will start thinking school is a prison and will behave and act institutionalized towards teachers, peers and academics. Students get more cynical when the gold stars lose their luster, and teachers' mendacity about their performance start showing through the insight of their poor skills and inability to perform academic tasks. It’s a small death suffered every day by these students, as they see their dreams crashed on the rocks of reality. We ask students to come to school daily and give 100% to what they believe is an intolerable humiliation, and we get angry when they don’t smile and take school more seriously. We scratch our heads, wondering what we can do when half of our kids drop out of school. If students can’t read, every thing else is moot.


Katy Perry  Firework Lyrics



Do you ever feel
Like a plastic bag

Drifting through the wind

Wanting to start again



Do you ever feel

Feel so paper-thin

Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in

Do you ever feel
Already buried deep
Six feet under
Screams but no one seems to hear a thing

Do you know that there's
Still a chance for you
'Cause there's a spark in you
You just gotta

Ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July

'Cause baby, you're a firework
Come on show them what you're worth
Make them go, "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky

Baby, you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make them go, "Oh, oh, oh"
You're gonna leave before they know

You don't have to feel
Like a waste of space
You're original
Cannot be replaced

If you only knew
What the future holds
After a hurricane
Comes a rainbow

Maybe the reason why
All the doors are closed
So you could open one
That leads you to the perfect...

Like a lightning bolt
Your heart will glow
And when it's time you know
You just gotta

Ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July

'Cause baby, you're a firework
Come on show them what you're worth
Make them go, "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky

Baby, you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make them go, "Oh, oh, oh"
You're gonna leave before they know

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through

'Cause baby, you're a firework
Come on show them what you're worth
Make them go, "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky

Baby, you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make them go, "Oh, oh, oh"
You're gonna leave before they know

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon



Apologize One Republic





I'm holding on your rope,
Got me ten feet off the ground
I'm hearin what you say but I just can't make a sound
You tell me that you need me
Then you go and cut me down, but wait
You tell me that you're sorry
Didn't think I'd turn around, and say...

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

I'd take another chance, take a fall
Take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
But it's nothin new
I loved you with a fire red-
Now it's turning blue, and you say...
"Sorry" like the angel heaven let me think was you
But I'm afraid...

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

Bridge (guitar/piano)

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
It's too late to apologize, yeah
I said it's too late to apologize, yeah-
I'm holdin on your rope, got me ten feet off the ground...

JUST STAND UP



Everything is gonna be alright
The heart is stronger than you think,
It’s like it can go through anything.
And even when you think
it can’t it finds a way to still push on, though
Sometimes you want to run away,
Ain’t got the patience for the pain
And if you don’t believe it look into,
your heart the beat goes on
I’m tellin’ you that,
Things get better, Through whatever
If you fall, dust it off, don’t let up
Don’t you know you can go be your own miracle
You need to know
If the mind keeps thinking you’ve had enough,
But the heart keeps telling you don’t give up
Who are we to be..questioning, wondering what is what
Don’t give up 
THROUGH IT ALL 
JUST STAND UP!
It’s like we all have better days
Problems getting all up in your face
Just because you go through it
Don’t mean it got to take control, no
You ain’t gotta find no hiding place
Because the heart can beat the hate
Don’t wanna let your mind keep playin’ you
And sayin’ you can’t go on
I’m tellin’ you that
Things get better
Through whatever
If you fall
Dust if off, don’t let up
Don’t you know you
Can go
Be your own
Miracle
You need to know
If the mind keeps thinking you’ve had enough,
But the heart keeps telling you don’t give up
Who are we to be..questioning, wondering what is what
Don’t give up
THROUGH IT ALL
JUST STAND UP!
THROUGH IT ALL
JUST STAND UP!
You don’t gotta be a prisoner in your mind
If you fall, dust it off
You can live your life
Yeah
Let your heart be your guide
Yeah yeah yeah
And you will know that you’re good if you trust in the good
Everything will be alright, yeah
Light up the dark, if you follow your heart
And it will get better
Through whatever
If the mind keeps thinking you’ve had enough,
But the heart keeps telling you don’t give up
Who are we to be..questioning, wondering what is what
Don’t give up
THROUGH IT ALL
JUST STAND UP!
If the mind keeps thinking you’ve had enough,
But the heart keeps telling you don’t give up
Who are we to be..questioning, wondering what is what
Don’t give up
THROUGH IT ALL
JUST STAND UP!
You got it in you, find it within
You got in now, find it within now
You got in you, find it within
You got in now, find it within now
You got in you, find it within
Find it within you, find it within
THROUGH IT ALL, JUST STAND UP!!!


Secrets - One Republic 


I need another story
Something to get off my chest
My life is kinda boring
Need something that I can confess

'Til all my sleeves are stained red
From all the truth that I've said
Come by it honestly I swear
Thought you saw me wink, no
I've been on the brink, so

Tell me what you want to hear
Something that will like those years
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time!
Don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

My God
Amazing that we got this far
It's like we're chasing all those stars
Driving shiny big black cars

And everyday I see the news, all the problems that we could solve
And when a situation rises, just write it into an album
Singing it straight to gold
I don't really like my flow, no, so

Tell me what you want to hear
Something that will like those years
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time!
Don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

Oh, got no reason, got not shame
Got no family I can blame
Just don't let me disappear
I'mma tell you everything

So tell me what you want to hear
Something that will like those years
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time!
Don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

So tell me what you want to hear
Something that will like those years
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time!
Don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

All my secrets away
All my secrets away

Sky Sailing Brielle:



There's a handwritten note pressed in the door of her screened in porch 
And I am sailing away recalling that day miles from shore 
She was still wearing white and robins egg blue, Her grandmother's dress 
When I left early this year, how I wound up here is anyone's guess 
When the new sides grow old and I start to feel cold I'll sail home again 

Goodbye Brielle 
Only seasons can tell 
Of the sweet dreams that we knew so well 
I'll see you around our dear ocean town 
The frozen days we set ablaze 
Sent me drifting away 
Like a butterfly, I floated by and now you're alone 
I wish I knew  when I'll be back again 
So until then I wish you well 
My dear Brielle 

Strolling over the sand, cobblestone paths that wind through the trees 
Breathing the sweet ocean air makes a blue bird aware that she could be free 
When the new sides grow old and I start to feel cold I'll sail home again 

Goodbye Brielle 
Only seasons can tell 
Of the sweet dreams that we knew so well 
I'll see you around our dear ocean town 
The frozen days we set ablaze 
Sent me drifting away 
Like a butterfly, you floated by and now your alone 
I wish I knew when I'll be back again 
So until then I wish you well 
So until then I wish you well 
I love you my darling farewell 
My dear Brielle


"In The End"LINKIN PARK


One thing, I don’t know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It’s so unreal
Didn’t look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on but didn’t even know
Wasted it all just to
Watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
One thing, I don’t know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I’m surprised it got so (far)
Things aren’t the way they were before
You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me
In the end
You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There’s only one thing you should know
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There’s only one thing you should know
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter 

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