On my morning run this morning, my Ipod played Suzzy and Maggie Roches' song, "Sounds," and I found myself thinking of a lesson about listening and sounds. It's a song that asks the listener to imagine the sounds associated with Matthew Shepherd's death (sounds of the beating and sounds he made) as well as those made by his mother when she found out what happened to him. Something about NOT giving us the sounds but asking is to imagine them makes the song all the more powerful.
I think I might use it with students to get them thinking about sound and all that it offers beyond the printed word.
Trish
