Winter Holiday History “Carol”
Directions
 Choose a Christmas, Chanukah, or Kwanza "carol" to re-word.
 Then choose an historical topic, event, individual personality, or historical group and re-word
your "carol" with lines pertaining to that choice. It must be a topic from 1st semester.
 You must have at least eight, 4-line main stanzas, or six, 6+ line main stanzas. [The chorus doesn't
figure in to this count, even though you have to re-write the chorus as well].
 Your new version of the "carol" must follow the same pace, cadence, syllables, and rhyming
pattern as the original!
 Type out your history "carol" [you can get fancy, if you wish] and email
(michelle.gurr@canyonsdistrict.org) me a copy as a Word file.
DUE DATE: Thursday, December 16
Bonus Credit
 This bonus assignment is worth 30 bonus points.
 If you want to sing your "carol" to the class, we will do so on the last school day before the holiday
break. This is worth an additional 10 points.
Example:
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“Walking in Medieval Europe”
Sung to Winter Wonderland
By: Jackie Kormann
The Black Death’s here
Can you see it?
In the streets
You can catch it It’s killing tonight
A terrible sight
Walking in Medieval Europe
There’s three forms:
The bubonic
The septicemic
And pneumonic
It can kill a whole town
We’re all going down
Walking in Medieval Europe
In the graveyard you can see dead bodies
They’re not buried like they’re suppose to be
People are dying way too quickly
The germs are spreadin’ rapidly
If we live
We can shout wow
One out of three
Are gonna die now
Too many will die
That’s not a lie
Walking in Medieval Europe
Everybody’s in a state of panic
People question their religion too
It’s time to get rid of all the evil
And that’ll kill more people too
But have no fear
We weren’t around then
We’re stuck here
Learnin’ about ‘em
But will never forget
It’s on the AP test I bet
Walking in Medieval Europe