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.

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