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What is Remix Poetry and Music?

 

 

Remix

To copy, transform and combine existing materials to produce something new.

 

 

METHOD:  

Choose a Concept or Idea or Person You are Learning or Helping Someone Else Learn

  

Choose a Song or Poem to Remix to Help You or Someone Else Learn

 

READINGS: 

 

The Remix of Education. The Digital Classroom (2025).

  

Everything is a Remix

 

EXAMPLES ON THE PAGE

 

Academic Content: Person, Event, Idea to Learn	Musical or Poetry Selection to Remix
PEOPLE: Revolutionary War Women Riders: Hidden Histories and Untold Stories	Riders on the Storm, The Doors (1971)
CONCEPT: Soliloquy: an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself	Hamlet Act III, Scene 1: "To Be or Not To Be"
PERSON Henry David Thoreau, American Philosopher	Piano Man, Billy Joel  (1973)
CONCEPT Oration as a Form of Persuasive Communication	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (1967)
CONCEPT Math Words for Students to Remember	Help, The Beatles (1965)
EVENT The Treaty of Versailles	Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley (1957)

 

 

 

OPENER/PITCH for REMIX POETRY USED IN TEAMS (Education 457)

  

MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G2-FPlvY58(from 38 to 43)

 

Bob: Riders on the Storm

 

Chorus: Riders on the Storm

 

Bob: Riders on the Storm

 

Chorus: Riders on the Storm

 

Bob: To help us learn some more, let’s walk right out the door

 

Chorus: To learn us learn some, let’s walk right out the door.

 

 

 

Content: Wiki Page: Sybil Ludington, Betsy Dowdy, Susanna Bolling/Revolutionary War Women Riders   SOURCE: Riders on the Storm by the Doors (1971). Remix by Bob Maloy, Andrew Roberts and 514 History Teaching Methods Class (Fall 2025) Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into revolution they were thrown But now they are unknown Their stories must be shown Riders on the storm. There’s a woman on the road Horses galloped despite the load This was no holiday This was not child play Unless they chose to ride Many people could really die There’s a woman on the road Folks you gotta learn herstory Folks you gotta learn herstory It’s time to make a stand Then you will understand Time to tell your friends Learning never ends Gotta learn herstories Riders on the storm Riders on the storm But we are not alone Rather than bemoan Learn what was unknown Sybil, Betsy, Susanna were cyclones Riders on the storm.

 

 

CONTENT: Soliloquy is an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of anylisteners, especially by a character in a play.   SOURCE: Hamlet Act III, Scene 1. William Shakespeare (written between 1599 & 1610).   Original Text   Namiah Rahman Remix

 

 

CONTENT: Henry David Thoreau   Wiki Page: Walden by Henry David Thoreau    SOURCE: Piano Man. Billy Joel (1973).   Philosophy Man Remix by Bob Maloy

  

La la-la di-dee-da

 

La-la di-dee-da da dum

 

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday.

 

The waves at Walden Pond are rolling in.

 

Forest creatures are standing next to me.

 

Here the sunsets are totally free.

 

I am thinking of my philosophy

 

Still figuring out how it goes.

 

It’s sad and it’s sweet and I must write it complete

 

Before I wear an older man’s clothes.

 

 

   

Talk to us, you’re the philosophy man

 

Give us ideas tonight

 

We’re all in the mood for some insights

 

So you get us feeling alright.

 

Now Emerson the writer is a friend of mine

 

He gives me his thoughts for free.

 

He believes in transcendentalism

 

And the goodness in all the people that you see.

 

He describes civil disobedience

 

And the smile ran away from his face.

 

“Good men must not obey the laws too well”

 

Remember this when you get out of this place!

   

Talk to us, you’re the philosophy man

 

Give us ideas tonight

 

We’re all in the mood for some insights

 

So you get us feeling alright.

 

Now the wilderness is a friend of mine.

 

It gets me inspiration for free.

 

It fills me with hope and it helps me cope

 

But factories mean it may no longer be.

 

My philosophy is not a carnival

 

And I writing all alone in here

 

But when governments act unfairly

 

I say what are you doing there!

 

  

La la-la di-dee-da

 

La-la di-dee-da da dum

 

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CONTENT: Oration as a Form of Persuasive Communication

 

SOURCE: Mark Anthony’s Oration speech in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar  (Act III, Scene 2)

  

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles (July 1, 1967). Writer: Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon-McCartney).

 

Remix: Bob Maloy

 

It was many many years ago today

 

When William Shakespeare wrote that play

 

It’s been going in and out of style

 

But now we are going to make you smile

 

So may I introduce to you

 

The act you’re known for years

 

Mark Anthony’s famous oration speech is here.

 

 

Mark Anthony’s famous oration speech is here.

 

We hope you will enjoy the show

 

Mark Anthony’s famous oration speech is here,

 

Sit back and learn what there is to know

 

Mark Anthony’s famous oration speech is here.

 

Video of the beginning of the speech Marlon Brando as Mark Anthony on YouTube

 

I don’t really want to stop the show

 

But I thought you might like to know

 

How Mark Anthony turned the tide

 

Used words to get everyone on his side

 

So let me introduce to you

 

The one and powerful term persuasion.

 

 

CONTENT: Math Concepts   SOURCE: Help by the Beatles. John Lennon (1965).   Remix by Bob Maloy   Help, I need some math  Not just any math You know I need some math Help   When I was younger, so much younger than today I never needed any math in any way. But now those days are gone, I don’t know what to do I got to change my mind and do some learning too. Show me if you can, my math is going down. I do appreciate what you have found. You helped me get my math back on the ground. I can now see parallel lines all over town. And perpendicular lines are all around. Isosceles triangles don’t make me frown. Equations are not just a random noun. With fractions I no longer drown. Mean, median and mode and I’m no clown. Give me a decimal and I wear a crown. So now math has changed in oh so many ways My worries seemed to have vanished in the haze I have no need to feel insecure I can do math I’ve never done before. Since you helped helped helped helped me.

 

 

Content: The Treaty of Versailles, 1919

 

Source: Jailhouse Rock. Elvis Presley (1957)

 

Global leaders called a meeting that could not fail

The delegates at the table were all male.

Both the winners and the losers came to play

The future of the world would change that day.

 

Let's talk, Everybody let's talk! Everybody in the first world war We're here for the big treaty talk

 

The Big Four said to Germany

We will take all of your colonies

Billions of dollars are owed too

No more navy ships will you accrue.

 

Let's talk, Everybody let's talk Everybody in the first world war We're here for the big treaty talk

 

Ho Chi Minh was there ready to rock

Independence from France was what he sought

The Declaration of Independence was his talk

What he got was cold shoulders and a block.

 

Let's talk, Everybody let's talk Everybody in the first world war We're here for the big treaty talk

 

Woodrow Wilson had his 14 Points

World peace he intended to anoint

His League of Nations was disjoint

It did not have the U.S. viewpoint.

 

 

 

Let's talk, Everybody let's talk Everybody in the first world war We're here for the big treaty talk

 

 

 

Women though had roles to play

More equal rights were on the way

The League of Nation's charter pen

Said its positions would be open equally to women and men