Week+29


 * //24 April//**
 * //Back at it...Silent reading//**
 * //PAIRED POETRY ACTIVITY//**

Johnny Cash reads //Sam McGee//

//Edmund Fitzgerald song// //Edmund Fitzgerald Wikiarticle//

//The Edmund Fitzgerald in pictures//
 * //Hand out Rime...//**

//Rime of the Ancient Mariner//

//Synopsis of the Ancinet Mariner//

//All poetry work is now late and losing marks. See me if you have questions.//

//Essay time has now expired. I cannot accept any more, as this is for a research component of the English department.//

//Review characteristics of the ballad... add one more --//

//Ballads often follow a rhythm of 3-4 stressed syllables//

//The **Grinch** hated **Christ**mas! The **whole** Christmas **sea**son!// //Now, **please** don't ask **why**. No one **quite** knows the **rea**son.// //It could **be** that his **head** wasn't **screwed** on quite **right.**// //It **could** be, perh**aps**, that his **shoes** were too **tigh**t.// //But I **think** that the **most** likely **rea**son of **all**// //May have **been** that his **heart** was two **siz**es too **small**.//

//OR...//

//There are **strange** things **done** in the **mid**night **sun**// //By the **men** who **moil** for **gold.**//

//This technique offers a very songlike quality to the ballad.//
 * //Also...//**//quite often in ballads, we will see a great deal of repetition, like a chorus or refrain in a song.//

//What things could you write about in a ballad?//


 * //23 April//**

//Allowing time to complete 5 paragraph essay and email to me.//

//All others may either work on any incomplete poetry assignment (quietly) or read.//

//I am allowing up to 25 minutes for this. If this is done, please begin reading and listening to the material below.//

//Intro to the Ballad//



Characteristics of Ballads
Here is a list of the characteristics of ballads. Some are even important.
 * Most ballads have a narrative form. Folk songs, medieval stories, dances, and now love songs.
 * Ballads tend to have a distinctive verse form-Quatrains.
 * Ballads have refrains-with four and three stresses per line, alternating—general effect is musical.
 * Most ballads contain dialogue.
 * The common rhyme scheme of many ballads is (abcb) with ballad stanza lines 2 and 4 rhyming.
 * These poems are generally very impersonal in tone and not very reflective.
 * Ballads tend to be extremely concise and tend to recount one episode.
 * Common themes include tragic love themes, history, supernatural, unbelievable incidents, tragic domestic stories, etc.

//The Ballad of Brave Sir Robin//

//Sir Robin video//

//Read 'The Highwayman'//

//The Westray story//



//Is this a ballad?//

//What types of things could you / we write a ballad about?//


 * The net day...**

//vs. Downeaster Alexa//