Do You -Sing- The Preamble?
11/14/2004 14:31 Filed in: Culture Watch
Schoolhouse Rock rocks...
Ask any Gen-Xer to recite the Preamble to the Constitution. Not only will he or she know it, but it will be sung to you. That's from watching Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday mornings between cartoons, one of the most clever educational ideas in the history of television. We learned to sing our math, grammar, history, science and civics.
I still remember in 8th grade when our teacher assigned us to memorize and recite the Preamble. Memorize? Not a problem--already know that song! The only hard part was not singing it in front of the whole class.
Trivia question: technically, there is a mistake in the Schoolhouse Rock version of the Preamble so that it would flow better as a song. A no-prize to the first person who can tell me the error in comments section below.
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Upcoming Blog(s) This Week: Three New Translations of the Bible You Should Know About
Ask any Gen-Xer to recite the Preamble to the Constitution. Not only will he or she know it, but it will be sung to you. That's from watching Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday mornings between cartoons, one of the most clever educational ideas in the history of television. We learned to sing our math, grammar, history, science and civics.
I still remember in 8th grade when our teacher assigned us to memorize and recite the Preamble. Memorize? Not a problem--already know that song! The only hard part was not singing it in front of the whole class.
Trivia question: technically, there is a mistake in the Schoolhouse Rock version of the Preamble so that it would flow better as a song. A no-prize to the first person who can tell me the error in comments section below.
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Upcoming Blog(s) This Week: Three New Translations of the Bible You Should Know About