Thursday, November 29, 2018

Book of qualities Assignment #8

Book of qualities Assignment #8

Link to Ruth Gendler's blog and website:
Examples:
https://mseffie.com/assignments/book_of_qualities/Qualities.html

 New Writing Project:  Assignment #8

The Qualities

Create two "quality" personifications similar to the ones that Ruth Gendler has written.
Select an emotion and give it the qualities of a human being--personification!  How does this emotion act, "feel", live?  Who are friends of this emotion?  What does this emotion look like physically (if he or she were a person)?  Use vivid DESCRIPTION to PERSONIFY this emotion.

Those of you who would like to can also draw a picture of your "character" and we will try to publish a class book of "The Qualities" at the end of the marking period

Monday, November 26, 2018

Assignment #7 Ekphrastic Poetry

Ekphrastic Poetry

AGENDA:

EQ: What is ekphrastic poetry?

Ekphrasis is writing about any art form, but in its modern usage, ekphrasis generally refers to poetry that reflects on visual art, and most often painting. In my classroom, I often choose one or two artists for an in-depth study. Once my students are experts about the artists, they each choose a meaningful piece of work to inspire a poem. 

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2016/04/ekphrasis-poetry-about-art
http://americanart.si.edu/education/pdf/Ekphrastic_Poetry_Lesson.pdf

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/classicscene.html

The Red Wheelbarrow


so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

ACTIVITY:
Students select a postcard or find artwork on the internet.  Write a poem describing or inspired by the artwork.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Moviemaker instructions


Video instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXr_kzfnCM4

Music converter:https://mp3-youtube.download/en

Add "slide"--TITLE (home)
Add text--CAPTION (home)--can change size, color, font, etc.
Add video or photo (home)
Add music (home)

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Assignment 3, 4, 5 Where I'm From Poem and Video


Where I'm From/ George Ella Lyon

AGENDA:

1. Review:
Assignment #1---MLA Heading on paper, 12 pt. Times Roman font  Heart Map or Writing Prompt
Assignment #2--From your list, write about one of your SPECIFIC Heart Map ideas (at least one page double-spaced)
Print out Assignments 1 and 2 today and put in your folder


2. Begin working on "Where I'm From" poems which we will turn into a movies next week with Moviemaker by adding images and music.

FILL OUT THE TEMPLATE!

Look over Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG3iP08HKZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ0bHaFsPx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVryvxLTIyU 

2. Show video of original poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdnHl_yW1dQ 

3. HANDOUT: Where I'm From template--Write your own "Where I'm From" poem in a Word or Google Doc using the model and the template

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Week One Writing Prompts Assignment 1 and 2

First Week Writing Prompts

AGENDA:

1. Begin working on your heart map Assignment 1 and 2


2. Choose something from your heart map to write about or choose something from the list below
1 pg.
12 pt. font. double-spaced, Times New Roman

Use header as follows:
Your name
Ms. Gamzon
CW7
Date
Assignment:

Monday, November 5, 2018

Welcome to SOTA and Creative Writing 7/

AGENDA:

1. Welcome/

Introductions/

Course Criteria/

Google classroom (hw9qx3)

2. Discuss;

Why Art?



"By awakening our imagination, art intensifies and complements our ownexperience. Art represents people, cultures, values, and perspectives on living, but it does much more. While bringing us pleasure, art teaches us. While reading or contemplating a painting our minds go elsewhere. We are taken on a journey into a world where form and meaning are intertwined.
Form matters and gives pleasure. How a work of art is organized — its technique, its verbal or visual texture, its way of telling — gives pleasure. So does the inextricable relation between form and content. The form of imaginative art, as well as the form of well-written non-fiction, organizes the mess (if not the chaos) of personal life as well as that of external events. Form not only organizes and controls art but also other bodies of knowledge within the humanities. Form imposes structure that our own lives — as we move from moment to moment through time — may lack.
Narrative — sequential telling — imposes form as it orders and gives shape. Indeed, in the sense that each of us is continually giving shape to the stories we tell to and about ourselves, there is continuity between what we read and see and our own lives. Put another way, what we read teaches us to find narratives within our own lives and hence helps us make sense of who we are. Our seeing shapes and patterns in stories and other kinds of art helps give interpretive order — in the form of a narrative that we understand — to our lives. We live in our narratives, our discourse, about our actions, thought, and feelings.
While there is always a gulf between imagined worlds and real ones, does not the continuity between reading lives and reading texts depend on our understanding reading as a means of sharpening our perceptions and deepen our insights about ourselves? Reading is a process of cognition that depends on actively organizing the phenomena of language both in the moment of perception and in the fuller understanding that develops retrospectively."
Daniel Schwartz, Huffington Post