Curated OER
Voices of Louisiana Worksheet
In this voices of Louisiana worksheet, students choose at least three quotations from the Voices of Louisiana webpage and look for clues about each person's folk groups and the genres they mention; for example, oral tradition, folk...
Curated OER
John Carpenter- Student A and Student B
In this ESL vocabulary building learning exercise, students collaborate with a partner to fill in the blanks in a story. Each of the 2 stories provided is identical, but with different words omitted. Students read the story together and...
Curated OER
The Whipping Boy Chapters 5 - 6
In this comprehension worksheet, young scholars answer 6 short answer and 2 multiple choice questions for chapters 5 - 6 of The Whipping Boy. Answers are not given.
Curated OER
SIXTEEN TONS
Students explore a variety of music related to the coal mining industry and organized labor which can be integrated into the study of Colorado History, American Labor History, and a study of immigration.
University of Oxford (UK)
University of Oxford: Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
At this website, access over 30,000 ballads from various periods in literary history. Explore the ballads through primary texts, sound files, and images. Click on "Browse/Search," in the left frame of the website to either browse the...
British Library
British Library: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads: A Close Reading
"Lyrical Ballads" grew out of the friendship and artistic collaboration between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this lesson, students will explore a number of the poems in light of Wordsworth's key philosophies,...
Luminarium
Luminarium: Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Text of the book of poems, "Lyrical Ballads" presented in a straightforward way, easily navigated.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Lyrical Ballads (1798)
This site from the University of Toronto features the complete text of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads". It includes Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Book of Brave Old Ballads by John Gilbert
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Book of Brave Old Ballads by John Gilbert [1870]. This illustrated book of poems and songs is also known as The Boy's Book of Ballads.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: The Middle Ages and Ballads
This lesson focuses on folk ballads of the Middle Ages. It provides links to "Medieval Estates and Orders," an essay explaining the role of the social classes in the Middle Ages; three folk ballads: "Lord Randall" text and audio, "The...
Other
California State University: Folklore: The Traditional Ballad Index
The traditional ballad index is an extensive bibliography of folk ballads. There is some summary information.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
This Bibliomania website provides full text for both the "complete version" and the "shorter version" of Oscar Wilde's poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." A brief introduction is provided with information on the context and meaning of the...
University of Pennsylvania
U. Penn: Notes on "Lyrical Ballads"
This etext is the original notes, preface, and advertisment for the book "Lyrical Ballads," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
University of Michigan
Making of America: Ballads of New England
This site from the University of Michigan provides access to online text for "Ballads of New England," an 1870 collection of Whittier's poetry. Poems can be viewed in plain-text format or as page-by-page images from the original work.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: William Wordsworth, "Lyrical Ballads"
This site from the University of Virginia provides the text to the book of poems "Lyrical Ballads," featuring the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth.
Other
Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling
This site provides links to the full texts of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, which features such poems as "Gunga Din."
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: The Death of Robin Hood Ballad
Storyteller Dan Keding sings a ballad about the famous folk hero. In the song, efforts to save the hero's life through the practice of "bleeding"-a common medical procedure in medieval times-are unsuccessful.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Ballads of Romance and History by Susan Coolidge, Et Al
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Ballads of Romance and History by Susan Coolidge, et al (c1887), a collection of illustrated children's poetry and ballads.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Robin Hood: A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Ballads by Ritson
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Robin Hood: A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Ballads by Joseph Ritson (1884), a collection of poems, songs, and ballads about Robin Hood.
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Poems: Bridal Ballad
Scholarly archive of the various printings and versions of Poe's "Bridal Ballad," also known simply as "Ballad."
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Boys and Girls' Book of Songs and Ballads
A scanned copy of the 1863 publication of The Boys and Girls' Book of Songs and Ballads, a book of poetry for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Bye O Baby Ballads by Charles Stuart Pratt
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bye O Baby Ballads by Charles Stuart Pratt (1887), a collection of illustrated children's poetry.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Merry Ballads of the Olden Time
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Merry Ballads of the Olden Time, a book of children's poetry.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads by Rosina Emmet Sherwood, a book of children's poetry.