Yesterday we listened to the song for the first time and analyzed the lyrics to figure out the metaphors and descriptive words being used in the song. What does it mean to have a ribbon of highway? Or diamond deserts?
Today we listened to the song again and began to illustrate the song lyrics. We know that good writers create pictures in their readers' minds using words, and through Woody Guthrie's writing we are taking the pictures out of our minds and making pictures on paper!
Next week in Social Studies we will begin writing our own East Village verse to the song to describe our piece of the United States! I can't wait to hear all of the creative lyrics next week!
Here are the original lyrics we have been reading and singing this week:
- This land is your land, this land is my land
- From California to the New York Island
- From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
- This land was made for you and me.
- As I went walking that ribbon of highway
- I saw above me that endless skyway
- I saw below me that golden valley
- This land was made for you and me.
- I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
- To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
- While all around me a voice was sounding
- This land was made for you and me.
- When the sun came shining, and I was strolling
- And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
- A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting,
- This land was made for you and me.
- This land is your land, this land is my land
- From California to the New York Island
- From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
- This land was made for you and me.
