Puff the magic dragon and reggae music!
15/02/07 19:32 Filed in: Work
Was teaching Science today to secondary 1 students.
The topic was on drug abuse. Very interesting topic.
Played "Puff the magic dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary. Song was really old school. Back in 1963 actually. None of the students have heard of the song.
All of them thought the song sounded very kiddish, with dragons, kings and knights and all in the lyrics.
They were surprised when I told them that there was a controversy back then that the song was implicated to marijuana smoking, and was the song of the hippies back in the sixties.
Interestingly, Singapore banned the song in 1963! Hahahaha.
Played reggae music in class as well. "Ganja in my brain" by Sizzla. As well as introducing Bob Marley, Jamaica, rastafari and the usage of cannabis and marijuana.
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Played "Puff the magic dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary. Song was really old school. Back in 1963 actually. None of the students have heard of the song.
All of them thought the song sounded very kiddish, with dragons, kings and knights and all in the lyrics.
They were surprised when I told them that there was a controversy back then that the song was implicated to marijuana smoking, and was the song of the hippies back in the sixties.
Interestingly, Singapore banned the song in 1963! Hahahaha.
Played reggae music in class as well. "Ganja in my brain" by Sizzla. As well as introducing Bob Marley, Jamaica, rastafari and the usage of cannabis and marijuana.
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