9-12 Joshua Tree
Bronze level
Published on 3/13/2015
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Learning objectives
- English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5 Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text ...
- English Language Arts: .CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6 Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is dir...
- English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says e...
Created for
Age 7 and below
Ages 11 - 13
Ages 14 - 18
Ages 8 - 10
Subject
Music
Social Studies
Technology/ICT
Twenty-first century skills
21st Century Skills
Knowledge building & critical thinking
Global awareness & civic literacy
ICT for learning
Problem solving & innovation (creativity)
Required hardware
PC
Instructional approach
Project based learning (PBL)
Independent study
Learning activity details
(When it received national park status in 1994, the desert wilderness known as Joshua Tree had already been a national monument since 1936. Just three hours east of Los Angeles by car, where the high elevation Mojave Desert and the lower Colorado Desert meet, this California park features two distinct environments.
It’s up in the hills of the Mojave that the park’s titular tree grows, sometimes in sparse stretches and in denser forests. Mormon settlers gave the tree its common name. They thought the heaven-reaching branches resembled the arms of Joshua, the biblical figure, which the Mormons took as a welcome sign from above. They would go on to use the sturdy branches for fence-making material.)
How do individual songs in U2’s “The Joshua Tree” center around and develop the theme of “America”?
Continue this lesson with a Skype lesson, guest speaker, or virtual field trip at http://education.skype.com!
© Christopher Talbot Frank/Danita Delimont
It’s up in the hills of the Mojave that the park’s titular tree grows, sometimes in sparse stretches and in denser forests. Mormon settlers gave the tree its common name. They thought the heaven-reaching branches resembled the arms of Joshua, the biblical figure, which the Mormons took as a welcome sign from above. They would go on to use the sturdy branches for fence-making material.)
How do individual songs in U2’s “The Joshua Tree” center around and develop the theme of “America”?
Continue this lesson with a Skype lesson, guest speaker, or virtual field trip at http://education.skype.com!
© Christopher Talbot Frank/Danita Delimont