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Teacher makes music covers to help students remember lessons ABBY CHURCH, The Fayetteville Observer May 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Lee County High School health and physical education teacher Amy Todd writes raps dubbed over popular hits to help get the lessons to stick with the students, May 4, 2021, in Sanford, N.C. Because her classes are required electives, Todd, who’s taught at Lee County High School for 15 years, only sees her students 90 days of the school year. The information she teaches is only delivered to them once. (Andrew Craft/The Fayetteville Observer via AP)Andrew Craft/...
On her 45-minute commute to and from her home in Fayetteville to teach health and physical education at Lee County High School, Amy Todd turns on the radio. When music plays on FOXY 99, one of Fayetteville's hip hop and R&B stations, she pays close attention to the lyrics. Every once in a while, she'll scoff at their absurdity. "I'll be like, 'That's ridiculous,'" she said, sitting in her classroom one recent Tuesday afternoon. "Let's just take the lyrics out of that and call it something else." So she took the songs and made them into her own, rewriting the lyrics of popular hits with wor...
The "mother of feminism" Mary Wollstonecraft. - Credit: Topham Picturepoint/Press Associ With restoration work on the historic Newington Green Meeting House complete, it will now play host to a series of streamed concerts named after the buildings most famous attendee, Mary Wollstonecraft. The Mary Wollstonecraft Music Café Concert Series will launch during Wollstonecraft's 262nd birthday week from April 25 to May 2. Short teaser concerts are to be streamed as part of celebrations as well as talks by Nobel prize-winning economist Prof. Amartya Sen, Bee Rowlatt of the Wollstonecr...