If you want to find a creative way to teach Social Studies content and get your students to enjoy writing, this is your answer. Your students will write mini-essays and combine it with the joy of music. This also ties nicely into the English curriculum, Thanksgiving, and into the differences between rural and urban life.I have found these song journal writing prompts to be an amazing way to start ELA or Social Studies class for the last 30 years. I do at least one a week, and for sure one on e