Jim Crow Laws + Ballad of Birmingham

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome

Today: Understand and discuss the Jim Crow Laws + discuss Ballad of Birmingham

Assignment: Jim Crow Laws

1. Look up wat Jim Crow laws are and find examples of them
2. Look up where these laws existed and where not.
3. Why did the Jim Crow laws exist there specifically?
4. “separated but equal”  this is what Americans said during this period. What does this mean?
5. Looking at how it was for the African-American community, were they really “separated but equal”? Explain your answer
6. Is everyone “separated but equal” nowadays? Explain your answer

segregation in USA

What is the inspiration of the poem?

Red the poem together

Listen and read along as we read this poem. 

Get to work

Do the assignments that go with this poem. After you are done, read the information on the bombing and what happened after.

Homework

Finish assignments on "The Ballad of Birmingham"

Analysing the poem

1.  Why doesn't the mother allow the child to go to the freedom March and where does she send her instead?

2. Line 6 mentions “the dogs are fierce and wild” Who or what do you think these dogs are? --> metaphor

3. line 12: "to make our country free" what is meant by this?

4. There is a certain irony in this poem. Explain how irony plays a role.

5. The title of the poem is “the ballad of Birmingham”. Look up the characteristics of a ballad and explain how they are all present in this poem

Ballad

Ballad

- a narrative story, a dialogue
- author is not involved in the story
- simple every-day language

- a tragic story

- abcb rhyme scheme

Today learned:

- rhyme scheme

- ballad
- irony

- metaphor