Warm Up: Quick Write

1. Warm Up: Quick Write • Answer the following question by writing a paragraph. • Your paragraph should have a strong topic sentence, supporting details, and examples. • Can Criminals be heroes? Why or Why not? • You will turn this in for a classwork grade

2. Narrative and Ballad Poetry

3. What is a narrative poem? • A narrative is a type of poem that tells a story. • Narrative poems have the same characteristics of fiction. • Plot • Characters • Conflict • Theme • Setting

4. Bel Air • Watch the video Fresh Prince Theme Song • Follow along with the lyrics • Make a 4 column chart of the elements below and work with your elbow partner to identify them: • Plot • Characters • Conflict • Theme • Setting

5. Ballads • A ballad is a special type of narrative that tells a dramatic story, which often speaks of love, death, the supernatural or a combination of these, through simple narration or dialogue.

6. Ballads Common characteristics of a ballad: • Short compared to other narrative poems • Written in simple, concise language • Opens abruptly, dropping the reader immediately into the action of the story without a prolonged introduction • Emphasizes a single dramatic event through dialogue and action • Descriptions of character and setting are kept to a minimum • Almost always has a refrain

7. A ballad stanza in a poem Has lines as long as the ones on the next slide. In measuring the lines, we find We get both fours and threes.

9. The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island • Watch the Gilligan’s Island introduction • Gilligan's Island Theme Song • With your partner jot down the elements of narrative as you watch/listen

10. The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island Look at it as a ballad • What is the refrain? • What is repeated? At your tables think about (Gilligan/FreshPrince) and discuss the following: • Does this theme song have a different rhythm than the Fresh Prince? • Are there differences? • Explain