ERIC Number: EJ669401
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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Teaching the Ballad: New Songs to Old Airs.
Brown, Lee Ann
Teachers & Writers, v34 n4 p3-15 Mar-Apr 2003
Defines the ballad as the link between the written and the sung. Explains that ballad meter is made of quatrains that alternate between four-stress and three-stress lines, and contain an "abcb" or "abab" rhyme scheme. Notes that ballads are mnemonic devices and tell stories. Discusses modern balladeers and describes ballad writing assignments. (PM)
Descriptors: Ballads, Memory, Rhyme, Secondary Education, Story Telling, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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