Language Arts 10: Corrido Writing

Writer's Journal entry: Write a long paragraph about an event, place, or a person that you believe deserves to be remembered, commemorated, or celebrated. This could be historical, political, or personal. If you were going to immortalize something or someone in song, what or who would it be, and why? What things would be most important to describe about them?

Read examples of corridos. Identify rhyme scheme and other features of a corrido.

Draft your own corrido for the Tucson annual bilingual corrido contest! 

Requirements: 

• 36 lines (either 6 stanzas of 6 lines each, or 9 stanzas of 4 lines each)
• approximately 7-10 syllables per line
• traditional corrido rhyme scheme (ABCB, AABB, or ABCBDB)

Homework: 

Corrido rough and final drafts will be due on Thursday.