Poetry Slideshow

Create a slideshow or mini-movie with a minimum of 6 images with the words of your poem included in the slides. It should have music with it as well. You will show the presentation while reading your poem to the class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-5BlWmoMOA

Above is an example. You were told to go to Youtube and search for poetry slideshows for inspiration. If you have questions, please let me know.

Narrative Poem

10^th Grade Narrative Poetry Assignment

Using one of the images from the slideshow from the last class, write a narrative poem. (A poem that tells a story)

It must be 36 lines (6 stanzas of 6 lines each)

You will need to use several poetic/literary devices including:

            -rhyme (internal or external)

            - metaphor

            - simile

            - alliteration

            -imagery

            - personification

The poem is due Wednesday. Bring your computer if you have one, for part II of the assignment.

Vocabulary words...

resignation, demise, encroaching, tentative, verified, constricting, perpetually, flimsy, convoluted, imperceptible, credulity, interminable, furtively, extricate, egocentric, internal and external conflict, obstacle, rubicund

Oct. 13-17

Videos due Monday
Vocabulary Test Wednesday
The rest of the week will be spent reading and analyzing free verse poems and writing your own.

Video Project for Poetry

1)    Choose one partner

2)    With your partner choose a theme that represents the poem. Write it down in a thematic statement format.

3)    Choose a song, with or without words, that goes with the themes of the poem, Rage Against the Dying of the Light

4)    Decide on your symbolism and your motif for the video

a.     Will this be a Music Video or a Movie Trailer

5)    Outline your video scene by scene

a.     Will your video be literal or more abstract

6)    Begin filming: make sure you are using the symbolism and carry your motif throughout

7)    Edit with music

8)    Write a paragraph explaining the video and what your symbolism represents and how (2-5 minutes)

9)    Show in class

Example:

Thematic statement: Often, our past regrets and mistakes aren’t realized until it is too late, and we’d do anything to go back and make amends, even if that meant fighting off death.

Song: Cats in the Cradle, by Cat Stevens- This is a song about a father who spends his whole time working to gain financial success, while at the same time ignoring his children and their emotional needs. When he is older and dying and he wants to see his grown children and spend time with them, they are now too busy to visit him. He is alone and wishes he could go back to fix his mistakes.

Symbolism: The color green will be used to represent his greed and lust for money. Yellow will be used to show the light of his children and their innocence, but it will also fade and morph into green as the video progresses to show how they’ve acquired his greed.

Motif: There will be blurred video footage to represent regret. When thinking of his past, the footage will be blurry and difficult to see, exemplifying how hard it is for him to look back on life and witness his own mistakes. While the song plays, quotes from the poem will flash across the screen.

Outline of the video: Movie trailer

Beginning: Begin on the death bed of the father. Film in dreary colors of black and gray. Show his loneliness by filming empty chairs and dying flowers. Film him reaching out with old hands and then cut to a blurred film of his past where his child was reaching out to him and he wasn’t there.

A)   Materials and props needed:

B)    Locations to film:

C)    Time, date, and participants

Middle:

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End:

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