Animated Poetry Requirements

Animated Poetry

Your task is to design and film a dramatic interpretation of a poem using a video camera. You will be in the same group that you are in for the scavenger hunt.

Requirements for the Project

• It must be a poem that is rich in imagery
• It must be approximately 15-20 lines long
• Your teacher needs to approve the poem
• You need to turn in a story board
• The poem must be recited and not only displayed on the screen
• You must do all of your own filming and editing
• You need to do an oral commentary for the animated poem once it is filmed (oral presentation). This can be live or recorded on the video at the end of the poem presentation.
• No more than 5 minutes in total for the poetic part (if you add the commentary – the commentary section will make it longer)
• You must post the video to facebook by class time, May 25th so we can view it in class on that day.
• The title of your animated poem, when uploaded, should be 9H plus all of the names of the people in your group. So for instance it should be "9H_Ayşegül, Zeynep, Benan, Lara, Eray" for the Queen Bee group.

Due date: MAY 25^th

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.

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.

Animtaed Poem Options

Bring in at least 3 poems (not just titles, but actual poems) for Tuesday's class. I want each group to have a selection of poems that they can choose from so you can start brainstorming ideas about how to create a dramatic interpretation of your poem.

We gotta make 'em good! So pick some poems that you can really "see" visually!

Animated Poem Groups

Current Groups:

Although many people were absent on Friday, we started creating our animated poetry groups. On Monday we will make sure that everyone is okay with the groups, but here they are for now...

The Sexy Bombs and the Slow One - Buğçe, Buse, Deniz T., Elican, and Deylem

Queen Bees - Ayşegül, Zeynep, Benan, Lara, Eray

Un-named Groups:

Deniz Ç., Başak, Selen, Irem Ş.

Doruk, Ahmet, Burak, Can

Kerem, Caner, Tolga, Selin, Irem E.

We can make sure this is what everyone wants on Monday. If you want something different, please let me know!

Review!

What are the meanings of these things (and do it from memory -- just pick one so others can give it a try):

simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
hyperbole
onomatopoeia

Speaker vs. Author

A speaker and author are almost never the same. Be careful of that word "almost" I just wrote. Usually the author is not the speaker of his or her poem, so we don't refer to the speaker as the author ever. Err on the side of caution and assume that the speaker is separate from the author. It is important when demonstrating your understanding of the poem.

Why is it that we so often want the author to also be the speaker? Do we want to assume that every speaker of every poem is a poet? Then why would a poet write poems -- shouldn't they just give speeches?

Animated Poems!

Click here for a podcast of poems that you can listen to and think about using for your animated poem.

Listen and choose some that you like. Have at least 3 choices for next Monday.

Poetry

What feelings do you feel and what things does your body do when you hear the word poetry?

What do you already know about poetry? Tell all!