Scavenger Hunt

For Monday -- upload the scavenger hunt to facebook! If you want to edit it and make it sound/look pretty, it is totally up to you. But make it good.

Make sure you join the groups:
The Koc School 2008-2009 Scavenger Hunt
AND
The Koc School 2008-2009 Animated Poetry Video Project

I will look at them on Monday and decide which one is good enough to show on Tuesday!

Reminders:
Bring Independent Reading books on Monday.

If you want your exam grades, please email me. I will distribute the exams on Monday so you can see the feedback on the exam.

For Tuesday --bring in one copy of your poem for each group member and one copy for me, on Tuesday.

Scavenger Hunt

Bring your cameras! Here are the items you have to choose from for tomorrow. Do the ones with the most points and you will be the winners!

Video Scavenger Hunt Tasks

1. Ask students what they want to do with their life 10

2. Impersonate your favorite rock star 15

3. Break dance on a cardboard box in public 15

4. Point at nothing and get a passerby to look at it 10 (doesn't count if you set it up -- you have to make them do it without knowing)

5. Video an animal 5

6. Get someone on your team to sing and act out the teapot song 15 (your teacher will tell you the lyrics and movements)

7. Comment on student behavior as if narrating a nature program 15

8. Take a nap in an inappropriate location 15

9. Re-enact the “King of the World” scene from the Titanic 15

10. Interview people coming out of a restroom (questions should not be related to the restroom) 20

11. Video a team member acting like a duck 15

12. Play an air table tennis game in public 15

13. Video team members playing leap frog 10 (your teacher will show you what this is)

14. Recite a poem publicly 10

15. Score an air goal with spectators cheering you on 10

16. Kiss a fish 10

17. Pay with foreign currency at the canteen 15

18. Capture team members lovingly running towards each other across a field 10

19. Travel the halls as if you were the crocodile hunter in the wild 10

20. Video an opposing team member 30

21. Do the halay 15

22. Talk with a stranger in the lunchroom or canteen 10

Make sure that you "sell" everything and make it really good. The funnier, the better. I will only show one in class, and I will only show the one that I think was done the best. So scavenge to impress!

Poetic Commentary

Remember - the poem that your groups chooses for their animated poem is one that you will have to complete a commentary for as a group. You will have to orally share the poem and video and talk about the poetic techniques that the poet is using and WHY the poet uses them -- so choose a poem that you understand as well as one that can be displayed visually.

Friday is coming soon! That means the scavenger hunt! Yipee! Get ready. Make sure you have fun and do the best you can in the time you have.

Animated Poem

Remember the authors that I suggested you choose from? I told you guys you can look at all the poems I gave you and search other poems that the same authors have written. Please do not choose translations of Turkish poems. I want these poems to come from English language authors.

Here are some you can choose from:
Nikki Giovanni
Gary Soto
Mark Strand
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
Shel Silverstein
Billy Collins
Elizabeth Bishop
William Shakespeare
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
e.e. cummings
May Swenson
Langston Hughes
Robert Browning
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
Robert Lowell

Use www.poets.org to help you find a GREAT one!

I'm a Little Teapot

I'm a little teapot, short and stout, (bounce up and down a little or rock from side to side)

Here is my handle (place one hand on corresponding hip to imitate handle),

here is my spout (position other hand in air to imitate spout).

When I get all steamed up hear me shout.

Tip me over and pour me out (lean to the right to imitate pouring tea from the spout).

Sicky Sick

As you know, I have been sick which is why the posts were a little slim last week. I will definitely beef things up this week and post every day.

Today, many of you came in without any options for poems -- this worries me since I have been asking for them for a week now. Please bring them in.

I will not remind you to give them to me, because it is now YOUR responsibility to bring the poem to me. You need to have at least one poem that you would like to do for you animated poem by Wednesday or your group will get a zero for the project. I want to see those poems!

Reminder: Get a poem to me by Wednesday.
Reminder: Friday is the scavenger hunt.
Reminder: Monday the scavenger hunt is due.
Reminder: Start working on the animated poem by Tuesday of next week.