Last October, one of my students, TB, who is a regular on this blog, would NOT sit still for the life of him. He wouldn't get started on his group project and I needed a way to get him engaged.
He likes to rap. And he's actually pretty good.
Me: "T, you need to do your work. Which country are you doing? England?"
TB: "I don't feel like doing research."
Me: "What do you feel like doing?"
TB: "Rapping."
Me: "Okay, I can understand that. Well, rap me something about the Parliament and House of Commons."
TB: "How am I gonna do that?"
Me: "I don't know, you're the rapper."
I then told him to go home and make a rap about his experience at Kingsbury Middle School. It took about a month and I had since forgotten about my challenge, but he brought it in on a CD. Our school recently had a contest where students could submit school songs. Well, I think he won because our principal now plays it every day over the intercom.
Note the shout-out to this guy. "Ballers we are, harder and harder. Poppin' our collar, like Mr. Lowe and Order."
Just let me know if you want the song and I'll send it to you. It's gonna be famous one day.
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