Overview

It’s been said that music is a universal language, transcending borders and cultures. There’s a message in the music. This session will highlight various genres of music focusing on fatherhood.

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Learning outcome

• Participants will write to express their thoughts after listening to several songs (TBD)
• Participants will do the following upon hearing musical selections: Sequence events, summarize ideas, identify conflicts and resolutions, and identify cause and effect relationships, analyze characters, & problem solutions through group discussion. 
• Participants will reflect on their roles as a father; their relationship with fathers, and their relationship with their children.
  

Materials

journals (composition notebooks), PENS/PENCILS, Musical selections

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Activity  1

TIME:   30-45 minutes  “Music to the Soul”

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Participants will work in pairs/small groups listening to selected songs focusing on fatherhood.   

• Have the fathers create a flow map. (see example below)
• In each box, fathers will write a major event that a song evokes. 
• The major events should be arranged in the order in which song stimulates as a man and father.  
• Encourage the fathers to use no more than 6 boxes.
• Encourage fathers to express how they got here.

Activity 2

TIME: 15-20 minutes  

Sequencing

Have the fathers create a flow map. (see example below)

• In each box, fathers will write a major event that a song evokes. 
• The major events should be arranged in the order in which song stimulates as a man and father.  
• Encourage the fathers to use no more than 6 boxes.
• Encourage fathers to express how they got here.
  

Activity 3

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Flow Map

Closing Reflection:  Hour Glass

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