Book Report--Due the First Week Back from Break

There will be a sign-up on the wall Tues/Wed:

First, you will need to bring in some sort of visual aid that explains an aspect of your book:
It can be a poster you make, an object, music, a webpage (use computer)
and you will explain how it is significant to the meaning of your book.
Things to know: plot, characters, setting, conflict, point-of-view, climax.

Grade: Presentation--20
Visual Aid--20
Infomation--20
Preparation--20
Analysis--20

*****You must have your book with you on the day of the report in order to get a grade

ACE--Video interpretations of Poetry...not too bad for a first effort

"It's Dark in Here" by Shel Silverstein

"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden

"The Moon Rondeau" by Carl Sandberg

"Time Wasted" by Paula A. Norris

"Love Without Love" by Luis Llorens Torres

"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks

"Do not weep maiden, for war is kind" by Stephen Crane

How not to make a "literal" interpretation of a poem

Literal-the exact meaning (kind of like denotation that we learned)

1. What happens to cotton candy when it gets wet? Picture it.
2. Why would someone compare him/herself to cotton candy--what would he/she be trying to say about him/herself?
3. What is the tone of this poem? (author's attitude towards the topic)
4. Give me a brief summary of what you think this poem is about--not an analysis--just a general reflection about what she is trying to get across.

One-shot video project

A one-shot video is exactly what it sounds like: you get one shot only to capture your message (there are no cuts/separate scenes). The video can only be 30 sec-1 min long and therefore you will have to plan very carefully. Your group will consist of:
1)Focus Director-who is in charge of keeping the group on task/choosing a "good" poem
2)Artistic Director--will be responsible for the storyboard/turning the storyboard
3)Producer-will film the movie, get any movie "extras" line up the shots, frame
4)Sound Director--music if any,voice over, sound line-up on the storyboard

*All group members will have to complete a storyboard/copied version of the poem in order to be approved for filming

Test Help

"Those Winter Sundays"

This is the poem that will be on the test.

Assignments for the 1st 5 Weeks--- due by Friday 3/6

1. Book Report (2nd or scary story)
2. Letter to a child
3. Rosa Parks questions #1-3 (Montgomery bus boycott)
4. Questions. Autobiography of Malcolm X (Why do you think the chapter was called "Saved"?)
5. Questions Emmett Till
6. Points of view of Dee and Maggie of major plot events ("Everyday Use")
7. Quilt --10 things and explanation you would put in an heirloom quilt
8. Parental explanation to child (denotation/connotation)

Denotation/Connotation/Diction

Countee Cullen's "Incident"

denotation- the actual meaning of the word
connotation- the implied meaning of the word/associations

ex. It was a dark day in America.
denotation-literally dark, black, colorwise/weather
connotation-sad (9/11)day of mourning, etc.

diction-author's word choice
*Think of the Countee Cullen poem "Incident". If he chose to instead say "he called me a bad name" instead of the word that he used, the meaning would have less of an impact.