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L118 Censorship and Who Decides · Mon 2027-03-29 · Music That Says Something 100%
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GREET
Greeting at the door
Entra, sientate, empieza

Come in, sit, startEntra, sientate, empieza

Your Do Now is on the board and on today's sheet. Start it as you sit down.Tu 'Ahora' esta en la pizarra y en la hoja de hoy. Empiezalo al sentarte.

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DO NOW
Write one line
Escribe una linea

Write one line: who decides what you are allowed to hear?

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WARM-UP
Scholar-led
Calentamiento, dirigido por un estudiante

Ear warm-up

Led by today's Warm-Up Leader. I do not run this block.Lo dirige el Líder de Calentamiento de hoy. Yo no dirijo este bloque.

  1. Breath in 4, out 8, twice
  2. Hum one note, slide up and down it
  3. Thirty seconds of silence: name three sounds in the room
  4. Sit ready, pencil out
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TARGET
What we can do today
Lo que podemos hacer hoy

I canYo puedo

I can explain how music gets suppressed by identifying who holds the power in documented cases and what was changed.

I know I have got it whenSe que lo logre cuando

  • I identified the decision-maker in two cases
  • I marked what changed between an original and an edit
  • I explained what the change was intended to achieve

Read aloud by today's Target Reader.Lo lee en voz alta el Lector de la Meta de hoy.

El espanol del texto propio de esta lección llega con su unidad; la rutina de arriba esta traducida.

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MAKE
Ears on the music
Manos y voces en la musica

Censorship and Who Decides

  1. 5 minTwo documented cases
  2. 5 minOriginal against edit
  3. 4 minProtecting whom
  4. 1 minName a case

Reading todayLectura de hoy

An annotated lyric sheet showing what was cut and what replaced it

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TALK
You talk. I stay quiet.
Ustedes hablan. Yo me quedo callado.

Someone decided that line could not be broadcast. Were they protecting anyone, or protecting themselves? What is your evidence?

Starter (asks the question)Builder (adds evidence)Challenger (offers another reading)Recorder (reports one sentence out)

Use these to startEmpieza con estás frases

  • I noticed ______ in the recording, and I think it worked because ______.
  • I want to build on what ______ said. My evidence is at ______.
  • I hear it differently. What I heard was ______, because ______.

I stay silent for the first four minutes. Talk to each other, not to the front of the room.Me quedo callado los primeros cuatro minutos. Hablen entre ustedes, no hacia el frente.

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PROVE
Show what you can do
Demuestra lo que puedes hacer

Name one case and who made the decision.

How you show itComo lo demuestras

Write it on today's sheet and hand it in before the bell.Escribelo en la hoja de hoy y entregala antes del timbre.

Write one line firstPrimero escribe una línea

One sentence on your Do Now line: use the word censorship and name the moment in the recording that proves it.Una oración en tu línea del 'Ahora': usa la palabra censorship y señala la prueba.

Before you finishAntes de terminar

Rate yourself against the success criteria, give one classmate a specific comment using a word from today's list, then fix one thing they named before you show me.