Today we are going to continue working on the iMovie digital poetry projects.
See the handout for additional information.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Adding Music to your Digital Poetry Projects
Apple tutorial on how to add music to your digital poetry project:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#music
There are preset, pre-installed sound effects and loops for you to use on iMovie.
However,
I suggest bringing in your own music to use for this project so that you are able to customize it to your liking! Next class, be sure to bring in a CD or mp3s that we can import into your project.
How is your music going to add to the tone and style of the piece? Is it appropriate for the piece? If I ask you to justify your music choice, can you?
IF YOUR MUSIC HAS WORDS, YOU MUST CONFERENCE WITH ME SO I CAN APPROVE IT FOR YOUR PROJECT!
Ms. Moraites
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#music
There are preset, pre-installed sound effects and loops for you to use on iMovie.
However,
I suggest bringing in your own music to use for this project so that you are able to customize it to your liking! Next class, be sure to bring in a CD or mp3s that we can import into your project.
How is your music going to add to the tone and style of the piece? Is it appropriate for the piece? If I ask you to justify your music choice, can you?
IF YOUR MUSIC HAS WORDS, YOU MUST CONFERENCE WITH ME SO I CAN APPROVE IT FOR YOUR PROJECT!
Ms. Moraites
Monday, November 23, 2009
Digital Poetry
So far, you should have:
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Continue to think about what music you might want to use behind your project. Do you want to add some voice recording behind your words? What kind of music will best represent your interpretation of the poem? (I suggest not using sections of music with words unless necessary.) Is your poem soothing? What music would represent this? Is your poem chaotic? Do you think that more than one kind of music would add a chaotic feeling to your poem? Etc.
As a writer would use different literary elements and techniques to add meaning to their poetry and prose, you are doing the same thing for your digital poetry projects and using technology.
Remember, you will be publishing these online and sharing these with the rest of you classmates!
- Found and interpreted your poems -- What would you say it means?
- Found some images that you would like to include in your digital poetry.
- Added a title to your project including the title of the poem and the author's name
- Extend the length of your iMovie. Most of these poems are going to range anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute or two. As you think about extending the length of certain images or using "black" space, adding extra frames will slow down the reading of the poem and add an emphasis to the words on the screen.
- Add transitions between your images and words. Think about how a slow entrance of a word might add significance to it. How can your transition add meaning to your poem?
- Add the words of you poem. Think about the examples that we saw. Did they just show one word at a time? More than one word of the poem? Did they change the font or size for specific effect on important words? How does that change or add meaning to your digital poetry project?
***
Continue to think about what music you might want to use behind your project. Do you want to add some voice recording behind your words? What kind of music will best represent your interpretation of the poem? (I suggest not using sections of music with words unless necessary.) Is your poem soothing? What music would represent this? Is your poem chaotic? Do you think that more than one kind of music would add a chaotic feeling to your poem? Etc.
As a writer would use different literary elements and techniques to add meaning to their poetry and prose, you are doing the same thing for your digital poetry projects and using technology.
Remember, you will be publishing these online and sharing these with the rest of you classmates!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Poetry Projects
Today we will begin DIGITAL POETRY PROJECTS!
You will be given handouts in class that describe the project and getting started.
Go to links and click on Poets Bios/ Echoes project
Examples:
I, Too, Sing American by Langston Hughes
http://animoto.com/play/pa7sd0T9NispVIYMDMJYTQ
“The Old Walking Song” by Tolkien
http://animoto.com/play/Oi1outkBJKUtZURSxB9RRg
What are the possibilities of using iMovie?
ECHOES:
Great poets inspiring young writers
"Echoes" is an encyclopedia of poets created by 8th grade English students at Cary Academy in Cary, North Carolina. Each site contains a biography of the poet, sample poems with literary analysis, and original student poetry inspired by the poet. If you are a middle or high school teacher who would like to have your class contribute to "Echoes," please email site editor Delia DeCourcy. We would like to expand the list of poets as well as create new links to the ones already in the index below. Curriculum and resources for the Echoes project can be found on the Student & Teacher Resource page.
POETS A-E POETS F-L POETS M-R POETS S-Z
Ai
Louise Erdrich Eve Merriam Carl Sandburg
Sherman Alexie Lawrence Ferlinghetti W.S. Merwin Charles Simic
Maya Angelou Robert Frost Edna St. Vincent Millay Gary Snyder
John Berryman Allen Ginsberg Marianne Moore Gary Soto
Elizabeth Bishop Nikki Giovanni Pat Mora Mark Strand
Robery Bly Louise Gluck Thylias Moss Dylan Thomas
Gwendolyn Brooks Joy Harjo Paul Muldoon Alice Walker
Sterling Brown Langston Hughes Ogden Nash Richard Wilbur
Anna Castillo Mark Jarman Pablo Neruda C.K. Williams
Lucille Clifton Randall Jarrell Naomi Shihab Nye William Carlos Williams
Sandra Cisneros Galway Kinnell Robert Pen Warren Charles Wright
Billy Collins Kenneth Koch Marge Piercy
Hart Crane Maxine Kumin Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Creeley Stanley Kunitz Robert Pinsky
Countee Cullen Denise Leveretov Ezra Pound
e.e. cummings Larry Levis Jack Prelutsky
Emily Dickinson Amy Lowell Muriel Rukeyser
Rita Dove
Paul Laurence Dunbar
You will be given handouts in class that describe the project and getting started.
Go to links and click on Poets Bios/ Echoes project
Examples:
I, Too, Sing American by Langston Hughes
http://animoto.com/play/pa7sd0T9NispVIYMDMJYTQ
“The Old Walking Song” by Tolkien
http://animoto.com/play/Oi1outkBJKUtZURSxB9RRg
What are the possibilities of using iMovie?
ECHOES:
Great poets inspiring young writers
"Echoes" is an encyclopedia of poets created by 8th grade English students at Cary Academy in Cary, North Carolina. Each site contains a biography of the poet, sample poems with literary analysis, and original student poetry inspired by the poet. If you are a middle or high school teacher who would like to have your class contribute to "Echoes," please email site editor Delia DeCourcy. We would like to expand the list of poets as well as create new links to the ones already in the index below. Curriculum and resources for the Echoes project can be found on the Student & Teacher Resource page.
POETS A-E POETS F-L POETS M-R POETS S-Z
Ai
Louise Erdrich Eve Merriam Carl Sandburg
Sherman Alexie Lawrence Ferlinghetti W.S. Merwin Charles Simic
Maya Angelou Robert Frost Edna St. Vincent Millay Gary Snyder
John Berryman Allen Ginsberg Marianne Moore Gary Soto
Elizabeth Bishop Nikki Giovanni Pat Mora Mark Strand
Robery Bly Louise Gluck Thylias Moss Dylan Thomas
Gwendolyn Brooks Joy Harjo Paul Muldoon Alice Walker
Sterling Brown Langston Hughes Ogden Nash Richard Wilbur
Anna Castillo Mark Jarman Pablo Neruda C.K. Williams
Lucille Clifton Randall Jarrell Naomi Shihab Nye William Carlos Williams
Sandra Cisneros Galway Kinnell Robert Pen Warren Charles Wright
Billy Collins Kenneth Koch Marge Piercy
Hart Crane Maxine Kumin Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Creeley Stanley Kunitz Robert Pinsky
Countee Cullen Denise Leveretov Ezra Pound
e.e. cummings Larry Levis Jack Prelutsky
Emily Dickinson Amy Lowell Muriel Rukeyser
Rita Dove
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Friday, November 13, 2009
Neruda/Harjo/Grammar
finish reading Neruda and working on "Steal a Line" Poems
GRAMMAR: Correct the following sentences:
1. Pleeze do not sneeze, or wheeze near there cheeze.
2. As Lionel was finally doing his laundry after letting it sit, in a heap for two weeks. He watched in horror as a mustard splotch on one of his shirts, unstuck itself and crawled out of the laundry basket, and down the hall.
3. "I looked over the close in my closet and decided I'm going to wear to scarfs around my neck and one on my head, to," said Tiffany. "Is that all your going to where?" gasped her mother.
4. The eye-catching float adorned with silver and yellow balloons. Carried a gigantic ice sculpture of a earthworm, the high schools mascot.
5. A skunk wandered through the neighbor hood and caused quit a scene when it ambled over to the busstop and crawled up on the bench.
6. Iris ate icecream on the ice berg while the yak yakked about frozen Yogurt.
7. The scarred moose vamoosed disapearing behind the caboose.
8. "Before you buy shoes for your pet millipede", he said. "Consider the cost.
9. Bram had a hard time remembering things, he always came to school with a sticky note list stuck in the middle of his fourhead.
10. Aisha asked the telemarketer, "if she could call him back tomorrow around dinnertime at his home phone number."
Joy Harjo
joyharjo.blogspot.com
miracosta.edu/home/gfloren/harjo.htm
GRAMMAR: Correct the following sentences:
1. Pleeze do not sneeze, or wheeze near there cheeze.
2. As Lionel was finally doing his laundry after letting it sit, in a heap for two weeks. He watched in horror as a mustard splotch on one of his shirts, unstuck itself and crawled out of the laundry basket, and down the hall.
3. "I looked over the close in my closet and decided I'm going to wear to scarfs around my neck and one on my head, to," said Tiffany. "Is that all your going to where?" gasped her mother.
4. The eye-catching float adorned with silver and yellow balloons. Carried a gigantic ice sculpture of a earthworm, the high schools mascot.
5. A skunk wandered through the neighbor hood and caused quit a scene when it ambled over to the busstop and crawled up on the bench.
6. Iris ate icecream on the ice berg while the yak yakked about frozen Yogurt.
7. The scarred moose vamoosed disapearing behind the caboose.
8. "Before you buy shoes for your pet millipede", he said. "Consider the cost.
9. Bram had a hard time remembering things, he always came to school with a sticky note list stuck in the middle of his fourhead.
10. Aisha asked the telemarketer, "if she could call him back tomorrow around dinnertime at his home phone number."
Joy Harjo
joyharjo.blogspot.com
miracosta.edu/home/gfloren/harjo.htm
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
11/10/09 Pablo Neruda
1. Read 5 more poems aloud.
2. Finish Run, Lola, Run stories today.
3. Steal a line.
4. Work on Craddock assignments.
2. Finish Run, Lola, Run stories today.
3. Steal a line.
4. Work on Craddock assignments.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions
XIV.
And what did the rubies say
standing before the juice of pomegranates?
Why doesn't Thursday talk itself
into coming after Friday?
Who shouted with glee
when the color blue was born?
Why does the earth grieve
when the violets appear?
Post your response here:
www.wallwisher.com/wall/nerudas-questions
And what did the rubies say
standing before the juice of pomegranates?
Why doesn't Thursday talk itself
into coming after Friday?
Who shouted with glee
when the color blue was born?
Why does the earth grieve
when the violets appear?
Post your response here:
www.wallwisher.com/wall/nerudas-questions
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Week of 11/2-11/6 POETRY
READ PABLO NERUDA'S TWENTY LOVE POEMS
View video about poetry
Go to poetry180
Go to Echoes page
Finish work on 3 ending stories
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