Syntax and Rhetoric in pop songs

Greetings!

I'm out of town today, as you might recall.  Here's the plan:

1. Spend 10 mintues looking through the blogs of other students in the class to read what they wrote about the JFK inaugural speech.  Feel free to leave comments.
2. It's time to look at the lyrics of some of your favorite songs!
1. Think of a few songs you really like - current, classic rock, whatever - as long as there are lyrics!
2. Do an internet search for the lyrics.  Choose one song to use first.
3. Copy the lyrics into a new post on your blog.
4. Open up this document - it's the one we used to list the rhetorical elements of the JFK speech.  Complete the chart based on the lyrics for your song.
5. In the same blog post as the lyrics, write a rhetorical analysis of the song!  What are the different rhetorical techniques the song uses?  What is their effect on the feel and meaning of the song?  Based on this look at the language, what are you now noticing in the song that you might have missed the first time around?
6. After you do this for one song, repeat it for one more song - put your responses into a new blog post.
7. When you are done, spend the rest of the period reading what songs other people put onto their blogs, and feel free to comment.
8. *Something cool - if you want to insert a YouTube clip of your song into your post, us the little movie clapboard icon - it's right up there two to the right of "link" - that way we can listen to your song while reading what you had to say about it!