We Didn’t Start the Karaoke
First off, I’m excited for this 8th grade Social Studies project.
Students will be creating the next verse to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. (Click here for a history teacher’s explanation of the lyrics. Scroll past the ‘terrific video tribute’.)
What I love about this song is that very soon a new generation of students will come through HJHS and your present day life will be history to them. How would the song sound to include modern history?
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Here’s the full karaoke file:
(Press Control and click on the link to ‘Download linked file as‘)
wedidntstart-karaoke