BALLADS

 

 

EALR Definition Involvement Introduction  Imaginaton 1 Imagination 2 Other samples:  Resources

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EALR

 

2.3.1 Uses a variety of forms/genres.

·       Integrates more than one form/genre in a single piece (e.g., a research paper about a local issue that includes caption with pictures, charts and graphs, and interviews).

·       Maintains a log or portfolio to track variety of forms/genres used.

·       Produces a variety of new forms/genres.

Examples:

- oral histories

- fictional journal entries

- film and drama reviews

- compare/contrast essays

- letters to the editor

- brochures

- web pages

- ballads

 

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Definition

 

What is a ballad?

 

• (i) A ballad tells a story.
• (ii) The emphasis is on action and dialogue, not description or characterization.
• (iii) A ballad has a simple metrical structure and sentence structure.
• (iv) It is sung to a modal melody.
• (v) It derives from an oral tradition, and is of anonymous authorship.

 

What?

 

• Simple language. 

   

• Stories. Ballads tend to be narrative poems, poems that tell stories, as opposed to lyric poems, which emphasize the emotions of the speaker.

   

• Ballad stanzas. The traditional ballad stanza consists of four lines, rhymed abcb (or sometimes abab--the key is that the second and fourth lines rhyme). The first and third lines have four stresses, while the second and fourth have three. Here is a stanza from "Sir Patrick Spens," a medieval ballad:

  
  
      'I saw the new moon late yestreen
  
        Wi' the auld moon in her arm; 
  
      And if we gang to sea, master,  
  
        I fear we'll come to harm.'

   

• Repetition. A ballad often has a refrain, a repeated section that divides segments of the story. Many ballads also employ incremental repetition, in which a phrase recurs with minor differences as the story progresses. For a classic example of incremental repetition, see the first two lines of each stanza in "Lord Randal."  http://www.bartleby.com/243/66.html

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• Dialogue. Characters talking.

   

• Third-person objective narration. The characters talk (not "I"). No reflection on emotional content.  Just the story.

 

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Involvement

 

Introduction

 

Casey at Bat

 

Read. Act. Draw. Compare/Contrast

 

http://www.leasttern.com/Poetry/poems14.htm

http://www.leasttern.com/Poetry/lessons/lesson7.htm

 

Casey at Bat Lesson:  http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/socialstd/FT/Casey_Act.html

History of Casey: http://www.historybuff.com/library/refcasey.html

 

The Poem: http://ops.tamu.edu/x075bb/poems/casey.html

Sequel: http://www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/mvm/netlinks/1thayer7/sequel.html

 

Others:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_case.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_at_the_Bat

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15500

http://www.joslinhall.com/casey_at_the_bat.htm

 

 

http://www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/mvm/netlinks/1thayer7/1casey7.html

 

 

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 Imaginaton 1

 

 

Read. Draw. Respond.

 

 

The Wreck: http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Poetry/Wreck.htm

The Highwayman:  http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/highwayman-orig.html

Dragon: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/Custard.html

 

 

 

Froggie:  http://orad.dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dylan/fraggie.html

Tom Dooley: http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/introjs.htm?/~acsa/songfile/TOMDOOLE.HTM

 

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Imagination 2

 

Read. Draw. Act. Respond.

 

Ward the Pirate:  http://www.contemplator.com/sea/ward.html

The Twa Sisters: http://www.contemplator.com/child/twasist.html

The Outlandish Knight: http://www.contemplator.com/child/outland.html

The Brother's Revenge: http://www.contemplator.com/child/revenge.html

Barbara Allen: http://www.contemplator.com/child/brballen.html

Trooper and the Maid:  http://www.contemplator.com/england/trooper.html

 

 

 

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Other samples:

 

http://members.optushome.com.au/kazoom/poetry/ballad.html#Betrayed

 

 http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/child.htm#ballads

http://www.silentwords.com/BalladPoems/default.html

 

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/ezrapound/12634

 

 

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 Resources

 

Comic Drawing

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/

 

 

More Ballad Information

 

http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/archives_05.aspx

http://www.sip.uiuc.edu/people/rromero/notes/corrido_characteristics.htm

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3743/

 

 

 http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/archives_05.aspx

 

 

 

 

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• Early Child Ballads
• The Ballad

 

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