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Getting Started Students learn the structure of the blues stanza, both in music and in the blues-based poems of Langston Hughes. This set of lessons is divided into grades K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12. Younger students compose their own three-line blues poems. Older students listen for details of the Great Migration in recordings of rural and urban blues from Smithsonian Folkways. Download Lesson and Materials for grades K–2 (ZIP file, 1 Mb) Download Lesson and Materials for grades 3–5 (ZIP file, 1 Mb) Download Lesson and Materials for grades 6–8 (ZIP file, 2 Mb) Download Lesson and Materials for grades 9–12 (ZIP file, 2 Mb) These lessons are produced by the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. Teachers may duplicate the materials for educational purposes. Development of this lesson plan was sponsored by Target.