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**Activity:** Students read and studied Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” to learn the components of a ballad: a song that tells a story, repetition, regular rhythm, and rhyme schemes. The students then compared this ballad to the bombing that occurred in Birmingham on September 15, 1963. xxxxxxxx **Task:** In order to evaluate their knowledge of the ballad, each student then created a Mother’s Day Ballad using any or all of the learned poetry mechanisms. xxxxx **Technology Integration:** To enhance the activity, each student placed their ballad on PowerPoint and used illustrations to depict the theme of the ballad.

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