Assignment #7 Ekphrastic Poem

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

William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963

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.  Look up famous paintings.

Write a poem describing or inspired by the artwork.

Assignment 4, 5 and #6 Poem and Movie

Where I'm From

I am from clothespins,
from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
I am from the dirt under the back porch.
(Black, glistening,
it tasted like beets.)
I am from the forsythia bush
the Dutch elm
whose long-gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.

I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,
          from Imogene and Alafair.
I'm from the know-it-alls
          and the pass-it-ons,
from Perk up! and Pipe down!
I'm from He restoreth my soul
          with a cottonball lamb
          and ten verses I can say myself.

I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch,
fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost
          to the auger,
the eye my father shut to keep his sight.

Under my bed was a dress box
spilling old pictures,
a sift of lost faces
to drift beneath my dreams.
I am from those moments--
snapped before I budded --
leaf-fall from the family tree.

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

Assignment #3---SHORT STORY

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.

Assignment #4:  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--Assignment #4

4. Assignment #5: 

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

5. Assignment #6

Moviemaker instructions

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)

Link for music converter:

https://mp3-youtube.download/en

Story Prompt --Assignment #3

ASSIGNMENT #3

Write a short story based on one of these picture prompts.  Use the first line of the story from the picture.  Story should be 2-3 pages with characters, plot, dialogue and description.

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

https://mrsgraveswebsite.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/8/12686140/the_mysteries_of_harris_burdick.pdf

First Week Writing Prompts--Assignment #1 and #2

First Week Writing Prompts--Assignment #1 and #2

First Week Writing Prompts

AGENDA:

1. Finish working on your heart map--Assignment #1

2.Assignment #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

3. First Week Writing Prompts

Here are some questions to help you with your descriptive writing.

1. What was the best thing that happened at school today? (What was the worst thing that happened at school today?)

2. Tell me something that made you laugh today.

3. If you could choose, who would you like to sit by in class? (Who would you NOT want to sit by in class? Why?)

4. Where is the coolest place at the school?

5. Tell me a weird word that you heard today. (Or something weird that someone said.)

6. If I called your teacher tonight, what would she tell me about you?

7. How did you help somebody today?

8. How did somebody help you today?

9. Tell me one thing that you learned today.

10. When were you the happiest today?

11. When were you bored today?

12. If an alien spaceship came to your class and beamed someone up, who would you want them to take?

14. Tell me something good that happened today.

15. What word did your teacher say most today?

16. What do you think you should do/learn more of at school?

17. What do you think you should do/learn less of at school?

18. Who in your class do you think you could be nicer to?

20. Who is the funniest person in your class? Why is he/she so funny?

21. What was your favorite part of lunch?

22. If you got to be the teacher tomorrow, what would you do?

Welcome to SOTA and Creative Writing 7/

Welcome to SOTA and Creative Writing 7/

AGENDA:

1. Welcome/Seating/Introductions--Name/Major

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH3akqBwYfo

a. Write your major underneath your name on folder
b. Sign on to computer: Your ID number and your birthday!
MM/DD/XXXX
c. Go to the Class BLOG
CW7sota.blogspot.com
Click it blue in the star to bookmark


2. Sign-in:  Google classroom (hw9qx3)

3. Classroom expectations

1) Treat others as you would like to be treated.  RESPECT ALL NOUNS (People, objects, ideas)

2) Respect other people and their property (e.g., no hitting, no stealing).

3) Laugh with anyone, but laugh at no one.

4) Be responsible for your own learning.

5) Come to class and hand in assignments on time.

6) Do not disturb people who are working.

In addition:

No food or drink in classroom or computer lab.

No cell phones.

As we begin to create writing

Use Times New Roman font  12 pt.

Ask permission to print

USE MLA HEADING:

Your name

Teacher name

CW7

Date/Assignment

Write shortcuts on folder:

4. Discuss;

EQ: Why is Art important? Why are you at SOTA?  Why do you want to pursue your art major?

Student reads:
"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

5. Heart Map