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English Ballads - Karaoke and a Personal Narrative - Period A - 2010

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2010-11-10 06:54

 There are a couple of main objectives that I have for this lesson.  One, is to convince students that ballads were songs - not poems.  So we listen to a lot of musical versions of the ballads - and we even have one student sing a ballad using Karaoke software.  The other goal that I have is to show students why these ballads are still around - and why they are so powerful: to that end, I interweave my own experience with teaching these ballads - with stories of students, Barbara Allen, and a story about loss and permanence.

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47:33 minutes (43.54 MB)

English Ballads - Karaoke and a Personal Narrative - 2010 - Periiod B

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2010-11-10 06:59

  There are a couple of main objective that I have for this lesson.  One, is to convince students that ballads were songs - not poems.  So we listen to a lot of musical versions of the ballads - and we even have one student sing a ballad using Karaoke software.  The other goal that I have is to show students why these ballads are still around - and why they are so powerful: to that end, I interweave my own experience with teaching these ballads - with stories of students, Barbara Allen, and a story about loss and permanence.

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43:30 minutes (39.84 MB)

A class on English Ballads

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2008-12-17 10:23

The audio begins with Harry Belafonte singing "Lord Randall."  I want students to see that these ballads are songs - not poems.  We then discuss that ballad, and Edward.  We also have a session of Karaoke Ballads where a students uses a Karaoke program to sing "Greensleeves."  I also tell the story of my wonderful students and the time they surprised me with a rendition of "Barbara Allen."

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40:23 minutes (18.49 MB)