Animated Poem Checklist

Writing a Commentary for a poem is hard, but that is why we are practicing. Whenever you have a writing assignment in class - don't waste time! Get to writing. I can only help you with your writing and ideas if you actually write something, so the more you write, the more I can help --- AND nothing you write is ever a waste of time.

The commentary is only one part of the animated poem checklist. Here are the rest of the things that are due on May 25th:

___ Copy of the 15-20 line Poem

___ List of Students in the Group with Responsibilities listed next to each student
– editing, storyboard, oral presentation (reciting the poem, presenting analysis of the video, presenting analysis of the language of the poem, etc.)

___ Storyboard

___ Written Commentary – analysis of the poem (structure, metaphor, simile, personification, meter, alliteration, rhyme, mood/tone, diction, etc…and WHY they are used) – rough draft and final draft

___ Animated Poetry Video (uploaded to facebook for presenting purposes)
- presentation includes oral defense of choices made in the video and oral commentary

Upload Upload Upload

Upload those scavenger hunt videos by Wednesday! I want to see them there and I want to show the best/funniest one to the class. Please work on getting them uploaded. I will not show yours unless it is there. It may take a while to upload it, but get it done.

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.

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!