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Online Resources These are some useful online resources, including poems and songs for you to have a look at. You do not have to use these if you already know which poems and songs you would like to use. If you aren't certain, take a look and see what you can find!

 1. Poem “Ballad of Birmingham” (On the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963) by Dudley Randall [|Ballad of Birmingham]

 2. Poem “Trees” by the American poet Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918). [|Trees]

 3. Poem “Dreams” by Langston Hughes, an African American poet who lived from 1902 to 1967. [|Dreams]

__//The poems are similar to the ones you may come across in your examination. Worksheets based on these three poems for exam practice can be found in//__  __//The Learning and Teaching of Poetry (EMB).//__  4. Song “My Favorite Things” from the m ﻿ usical //The// // S //// ound of //// M //// usic // written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rogers. Probably not what you would usually listen to, but try it and see! [|Song and Lyrics]

 5. Online dictionary - this site also contains a thesaurus - great when you need words that mean the same thing or mean the opposite for writing in you journal. [|Dictionary and so much more!]

6. Search engine to help you search for poems and songs and lyrics and video clips - [|Google Away!] This is a useful search engine as it is easy to use and you can search the web, or you can narrow your search down and just search for images or videos. It also allows you to do an advanced search where you can refine what you are searching for. You can also search in __English or Cantonese__ !

7. This is a link to a guide to help you, the student **// evaluate the websites you use, to find out how reliable the information is , if it is accurate, biased ,//** Use this as a tool to find the best sites you can - the page also provides other links, information and activities that are useful for when you are searching and surfing the WWW! [|Looking in detail at the websites you plan to use]
 * // when it was produced, who produced the site .... //**

8. What are songs without the video clips or lyrics? On this site you will find a wide array of artists video clips, fan clips with lyrics and even some poets performing their art! Start searching and see what you can find! Add links to your presentations and show your classmates! [|Youtube!]

9. This is a great website of kids poetry with lots of poems to read and activities to do, as well as some information about poets and their work. //** Write a poem and post it on the site! **// [|Start Giggling Today!]

10. One of many song lyric sites around - this one can get you started! [|Song Lyrics Galore!]

Now look at Printed non-fiction Resources