Animated Poetry

AGENDA:

Go to Poetry 180:  Billy Collins' web site:

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

Examples:  https://ed.ted.com/on/C0xas4YF

http://www.writersdigest.com/writing-articles/by-writing-genre/poetry/how-to-create-animated-poetry-guest-post-by-sheila-moore

Select a poem to "animate" (shorter poems work best).

Copy and paste your poem on a Word document.

Find images on Google that help to express the mood or imagery of the poem.

These will be backgrounds for the text.

Go to Movie Maker.  Take a tour and follow the instructions on how to use it.

Copy and paste text into Movie Maker.

Copy and paste your images as well into Movie Maker to support the text.

ANIMATE YOUR POEM!