10^Th Grade Language Arts

Poetry ProjectsSupplies/Materials:

1. Internet Connection
2. Microsoft PowerPoint
3. Textbook

1. Three Poems: one of your choosing, and one you create, and one given to you
2. Title Slide
3. Original Poem
4. Your Version (poem from the book only)
5. Two to Three Literary Devices interpreting the poem
6. Illustrated pages for each line
7. Work(s) Cited slide for all websites used in gathering pictures

1. Choose a poem from your literature book. You may use the poems we read in class, or an entirely new one.  If new, get approval to illustrate the poem from me. Some poems cannot be used for this project.
2. Using PowerPoint, create a decorative Title Slide with the title of the poem, the author, and an "Illustrations, Interpretations and Additional Poetry by (your name)".
3. Copy the ORIGINAL poem on the left side of one slide (this may take more than one slide to make it visible). Re-write YOUR VERSION on right. Look at the different slide layouts PowerPoint offers to make this work.
4. Give a two to three Literary devices which interpret the poem on another slide. For example, tell about use of figurative language, meter, etc. that contribute to the meaning of the poem.  Be sure to identify the device by name.
5. Take each line, or sets of lines that compose one image/metaphor/simile/etc. and put them on separate slides. Use images you find on the internet or within PowerPoint to illustrate the poem. Your illustrations should interpret as closely as possible the meaning of the lines in context with the overall meaning of the poem.
6. Give an "About the Author" slide. Give a picture if possible, or a near substitution. Next, tell:
1. The author’s name
2. Where and when they were born
3. The town they live(d) in
4. The extent of their education (where they attend(ed) school—list all of them)
5. What the author is doing now (if still living)
6. Other poems, short stories, or novels of interest
7. Other achievements of note
7. Insert the poem your instructor gave you on a new slide. To the right of the poem, give two to three literary devices which you see in poem.
8. In no more than three (3) slides, illustrate the meaning of the poem. Choose specific images, lines, or literary devices that you perceive to be the essence of the poem.
9. Next, write YOUR own poem on a new slide. Like the first poem above, separate the poem into lines and illustrate the meaning of the lines using images from the internet.
10. You must write an "About the Author" slide. Give a picture (if possible-perhaps you could scan a picture in the library and save to disk) or you can give an 'interpretive' image. Next, tell:

    
    a. Your name
    b. Where and when you were born
    c. The town you live in
    d. The extent of your education (where you attend school-list all of them)
    e. What you plan to do in the future
    

    For Once, Then, Something

    Robert Frost

    Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the well than where the water Gives me back in a shining surface picture Me myself in the summer heaven, godlike, Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs. Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb, I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture, Through the picture, a something white, uncertain, Something more of the depths--and then I lost it. Water came to rebuke the too clear water. One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom, Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness? Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.