This video features singer-songwriter Raye Zaragoza singing "Fight for You," a song about protecting the Earth's resources, especially water resources.
Students will learn that Zaragoza wrote the song for the water protectors during the Standing Rock protests against the proposed oil pipeline on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This song is a great example of how individuals can use their talents to advocate for climate action.
Additional Prerequisites
It would be helpful for students to know a bit of background information on the Dakota Access Pipeline and protests by Indigenous communities.
There are no subtitles, so transcribing and printing out the lyrics could be helpful for students with auditory disabilities.
Differentiation
Students could use their preferred artistic medium (songs, poems, painting) to convey a message about climate action.
Music classes could use this song in a unit on political music and protest songs.
This resource is a song written and performed by Raye Zaragoza. There is not science in this source to verify. However, this is a good example of what climate activism can look like. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
D4.7.9-12 Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.5 Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.
