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!

I remembers/Work on short story

AGENDA:

Journaling:

Permission to practice:  10 minutes I remember/I don't remember

“Through practice you actually do get better. You learn to trust your deep self more and not to give in to that voice that wants to avoid writing.”
— Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones

The challenge: I remember (select one 10 minutes)

• Your earliest memory. Capture every detail. Document the quality of the memory — is it as sharp as HDTV or hazy and ethereal, enveloped in fog? Write for 10 minutes. Go.
• Your happiest memory. Tell us the story of the happiest memory of your life. What happened? Get it all down, no detail left behind. The clock is ticking — get writing.
• Your worst memory. Record the pain, the anger, the shame, the terror, the hurt. You’ve got ten minutes to relive it. Keep your fingers typing.
• Freestyle memory. Write I remember at the top of your post, hit start on the timer, and write about the first memory that comes to mind. Ten minutes. Don’t stop.
• I remember/I don't remember

Work on Speculative Fiction Story--Due Thursday end of class or Friday Sept. 29

HMWK: Finish Age of Miracles for Monday.  TEST!

Age of Miracles Study guide/Short Story Writing

Agenda:

Handout: Age of Miracles Study guide

ACTIVITY:  Choose two questions from The Author's Craft.  Respond to each question on the blog as a posted comment.  Be sure to use specific examples or quotes from the text to support your CLAIMS.
Cite text page numbers where applicable.
Each response should be at least a paragraph long one sentence will not get full credit).

Be thoughtful, perceptive, and insightful.

CONTINUE TO WORK ON SPECULATIVE FICTION STORY--DUE NEXT FRIDAY

HMWK: Read to Ch. 24 pg.186 for Tuesday

AGENDA:
BELLWORK:
 Spelling/Vocabulary  Age of Miracles    Sign in and practice

 https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/273987

An Age of Miracles

By Joyce Carol Oates

He walked to the window

stared down twenty stories to the street

gaseous and dizzy as a swamp

not visible at this height

but there had been a street down there

and he knew

It came with the apartment

and the guarded foyers and halls

and the doorman

holstered

beneath the uniform

the television split-screening

front and rear entrances

He knew it was all there

and he was here twenty stories above

the unsetteled swamp-mist

he knew the trucks bound for the bridge

were still passing near

he could feel them rumbling

in the soles of his feet

so he knew

the floor he walked on

was someone's ceiling

and it was all normal tonight

and countable

a two-year lease because

a desirable

with full view of

river-

a five-by-three balcony through the door is

$200 deposit

fully carpeted

self-defrosting refriger-

the balcony door is stuck but

He can stare twenty stories down

from the windowsill

watching the swamp smokes curl and thin

and the swamp lapping at the base

and the unpaid-for miracle

one inch at a time

Joyce Carol Oates, "An Age of Miracles" from The Fabulous Beasts. Copyright © 1975 by Joyce Carol Oates.  Reprinted by permission of Joyce Carol Oates.

Source: The Fabulous Beasts (Louisiana State University Press, 1975)

Work on 15 sentence poem revision and short story

HMWK:

15 sentence poem/Speculative Fiction Story/Age of Miracles

AGENDA:

PERIOD 3:  Follow the instructions to create a 15 sentence portrait poem


The Fifteen-Sentence Portrait

This assignment will generate descriptive writing. It is purposefully guided. So, begin by choosing a person to describe. Then follow the directions.
1. Picture in your mind a person you have strong feelings for. The subject may not be a "love" interest, but should be someone you feel strongly about. The person can be living or dead but should be someone you know or knew rather than a famous character.
2. For a title, choose an emotion or a color that represents this person to you. You will not mention the individual’s name in the writing.
3. For a first-line starter, choose ONE of the following and complete the sentence:

1. You stand there . . .
2. No one is here . . .
3. In this (memory, photograph, dream, etc.), you are . . .
4. I think sometimes . . .
5. The face is . . .
6. We had been . . .

• THEN:1. Following your first sentence, build a portrait of this individual, writing the sentences according to these directions:

•   Sentence 2: Write a sentence with a color in it.
•   Sentence 3: Write a sentence with a part of the body in it.
•   Sentence 4: Write a sentence with a simile (a comparison using like or as).
•   Sentence 5: Write a sentence of over 25 words.
•   Sentence 6: Write a sentence under 8 words.
•   Sentence 7: Write a sentence with a piece of clothing in it.
•   Sentence 8: Write a sentence with a wish in it.
•   Sentence 9: Write a sentence with an animal in it.
• Sentence 10: Write a sentence in which three or more words alliterate; that is, they begin with the same initial consonant: she has be left, lately, with less and less time to think . . .
•   Sentence 11: Write a sentence with two commas.
•   Sentence 12: Write a sentence with a smell and a color in it.
•   Sentence 13: Write a sentence with a simile (a comparison using like or as).
•   Sentence 14: Write a sentence that could carry an exclamation point (but do not use the exclamation point).
•  Sentence 15: Write a sentence to end this portrait that uses the word or words you chose for a title.

• 1. Next, read the portrait. Underline sentences in which you discovered new things about this individual or your feelings and attitudes toward him or her.
• 2. Now, use this portrait as a starting point for a poem or prose portrait or simply revise what you have. (Be sure to keep a copy of the original, so that you can examine the changes between original and revised piece.) Do anything you need to make this a piece of writing that you like. Choose a new title, use the person’s real name, and so on. 

PERIOD 4: Continue working on your speculative fiction story

HMWK: Make sure you are caught up with the reading for quiz on Wednesday

Age of Miracles/Speculative Short Story

AGENDA:

Bellwork: Natalie Goldberg Test 1


VIEW:  Ted Talk with Karen Thompson: Walker
https://www.ted.com/talks/karen_thompson_walker_what_fear_can_teach_us

Post a response in COMMENTS after viewing this video. 

WRITING:  Work on short stories

HMWK: for Monday, read to Ch. 11 pg. 94 for discussion, possible QUIZ

Age of Miracles

Age of Miracles Discussion Questions

AGENDA:
1. Bellwork



2. Think, Pair, Share...post a comment to Questions 1 and 2

Questions to consider after reading The Age of Miracles.
1. As readers, why do you think we’re drawn to stories about the end of the world? What special pleasures do these kinds of narratives offer? And how do you think this element works in The Age of Miracles?
2. Julia is an only child. How does this fact affect who she is and how she sees the world? How would her experience of the slowing be different if she had a sibling? How would her experience of middle school be different? 

WRITE:
Continue to work on speculative fiction piece

HMWK:  Read to Ch. 8 for discussion on Thursday