1. Integrating Technology and Writing

2. Integrating Technology and Writing: Poetry
Intentions:
I can:
1. use technology to plan and create a poetry unit (theme)
2. use poetic devices to improve writing of poems
3. use online activities and computer applications to create visual (concrete) poems and imagery poems
4. use Power Point and iMovie to present my poetry portfolio

3. Teaser
Puzzle Poem

4. Exploring Poetry:Poetic Devices
as sly as a fox
The west wind
whistled wildly
Introduce the students to important poetic devices
Start with the basics
Alliteration
Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Onomatoepias
Hyperboles (Shel Silverstein)
Repetitions
Poetic License (Jabberwocky)
And important components of Poems
Rhythm
Rhyme
It is a Jungle out there
Poetic Devices PowerPoint

5. Illustrations: Cindy Vincent
Find a alliteration
Find a simile
Find a metaphor
Find a metaphor
Scavenger Hunt
Find a personification
Autumn Bear
Diane Culling
Illustrations: Cindy Vincent

6. Other Reading Activities
Poet’s Word choice
Reorganization of Narrative Poem
Other Reading Activities
With or without technology

7. Writing Poems Forms Haiku Tanka Cinquain Quizaine Clerhew Diamante
Parody
Contrast
Crazy Creature
Limerick
Concrete
Free Verse
Sonnet
Ballad
Types of Poems
Poetry Unit

8. Concrete Poems Also known as shape poems
Takes on the the shape of the topic of the poem
Websites:
Applications:
PowerPoint
AppleWorks
Take a picture of your finished work

9. Writing Acrostic Poems using Flickr
Open browser
Go to “Spell with flickr” webpage at
Type in word you want to find letters for
You will get an initial set of letters
Click on each letter until you see the letter that you like best
Take a picture of the letter by using the ‘shift-command-4’ keys
Insert letter pictures into PowerPoint to create a poem
Insert text boxes beside each letter to write the acrostic poem

10. Waiting excitedly for the first, fresh snowfall,
Icy, winter trees glittering in the bright sunlight,
Nights coming early with a raven’s ghostly call,
Tiny chicadees fluttering in the bush, black and white,
Excited children playing hockey on the backyard rink,
Ready to return to Spring as the wind whips cheeks pink.

11. Try your own Acrostic Poem using Flickr

12. Traditional Haiku In Japan: Written in a single, vertical line
17 sound units or mora, not quite the same as syllables but in a rhythm of 5-7-5
Focused on a seasonal reference “kigo” is the season word understood in the haiku
Japanese poets used a saijiki or season word almanac to check the seasonal association for key words they might use in a haiku
Always has a juxtaposition – compare or contrast between 2nd line and 3rd line
Ancient poets: Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki

13. Basho’s Haiku Translations
Lady butterfly Perfumes wings by floating Over the orchid Summer grasses All that remains Of soldiers dreams

14. Today’s Haiku No title 3 lines long, counted in syllables
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
Often about nature or seasons
Uses descriptive, sensory language

15. Haiku Poetry
New life bursting forth Refreshed from winter’s slumber Rejoicing in Spring.

16. Presenting Your Poetry
PowerPoint
Into
Imovie

17. Create a PowerPoint
Sample 1
Sample 2

18. Save as jPegs-Imovie

19. Next Sessions
Wireless Writing Session (Narrative) January 20 (am/pm) NT
(pm) WW teachers
Procedural Writing February pm
Literacy 2.0 Putting it All Together April pm