Trivium Home School · The Muses
Songs of work, war and peace, civil rights and hardship, and the American Civil War: history told by the people who lived it, with every side heard.
A2–C1 · 9 songs (0 free) · All the Muses
Jobs, routines and fair pay.
A2–B1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Present simple routines; at, on, in; work words
Dolly Parton
The typewriter song of every office worker.
Protest, questions and the cost of war.
B1–B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Too / enough; negative questions
Barry McGuire
The angry protest song of 1965.
B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Rhetorical questions; while, whereas; cause and result
Guns N’ Roses
What’s so civil about war?
Justice, poverty and the songs that give people courage.
A2–B1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Shall; emphatic do; afraid of
Mahalia Jackson
The anthem of the civil rights movement.
B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Wherever, whoever; reported speech; hardship words
Bruce Springsteen
The Grapes of Wrath, today.
B1–B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Negative prefixes; it’s illegal to…; allowed to
Frances Black
Ewan MacColl’s song about the law.
1861–1865: secession, the Union, slavery and tariffs, and the songs that remember the war from different sides.
B1–B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Narrative tenses with dates; past perfect; point of view
The Band
The end of the war, told by a poor Southern farmer, and whose story it leaves out.
B1–B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Is it right?; It’s been…; the future in the past
Waylon Jennings
Brother against brother, and a hundred years later.
B2–C1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Let / make + object + verb; the passive with estimates; approximation
Louis Armstrong
Slavery from ancient Egypt to today, and the long road to abolition.
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