Assignment #5 Ekphrastic Poetry

Ekphrastic Poetry

AGENDA:
https://www.brushwiz.com/most-famous-paintings/ 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.  Write a poem describing or inspired by the artwork.

Projects 9/16/19

AGENDA:

Continue to work on projects:

Short stories

Moviemaker animated poems.  Be sure to COLLECT AND SAVE your images from Google images as you work on your poem.

Remember:
Go to HOME on MOVIEMAKER.
To add a slide--Click on TITLE
To add text--Click on CAPTION
To add photos or image--Click on add photo or video

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

Extra Credit Prompts

Those of you who have finished the assignments for the class can do extra credit projects independently.  This can be writing and/or drawing or illustrating your writing!

Here are some places to go for prompts:
http://thinkwritten.com/365-creative-writing-prompts/

http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/

Assignment #4 Moviemaker Animated Poem

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

Animate This Poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqKitAWAl-w

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

https://www.pw.org/content/introduction_to_poetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkREA94QYRk

Introduction to Poetry

BY BILLY COLLINS

I ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the light

like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem

and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room

and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski

across the surface of a poem

waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope

and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose

to find out what it really means.

Billy Collins, “Introduction to Poetry” from The Apple that Astonished Paris. Copyright � 1988, 1996 by Billy Collins. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Arkansas Press.

Source: The Apple that Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1996)

Story Prompt Assignment #3

Story Prompts--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

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/

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.  Marshmallow exercise

Don’t Eat the Marshmallows !

Are you a Marshmallow Eater 

Or 

A Marshmallow Resister? 

Show students: Joachim de Posada: Don't eat the marshmallow! This is a very engaging 6 minute TED video about the importance of self-regulation and delayed gratification.  Students of all ages find this video amusing.  Here is the link: 

http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_ marshmallow_yet.html 

https://stosselintheclassroom.org/videos/delayed_gratification/

Complete class discussion and worksheet after watching the video 

Name______________________ 

1. Are you a marshmallow eater or a marshmallow resister?   

2. Are you in the majority or minority of the population? 

3. What are the advantages of being a marshmallow resister? 

4. What are the disadvantages of being a marshmallow eater? 

5. What can a person do to change from being a marshmallow eater to a marshmallow resister? 

6. How do these videos affect you and how you feel about SOTA's cell policy?

Write about a time you had to wait until you got something you wanted badly.

Was it worth the wait?  Were you gratified when you received it?