Parents,
Please allow your students to bring in their Ipods, portable CD players, MP3s & 4s and any other musical device they may have for a class project this week. We are going to write poetry inspired by music this week. The students are going to create five different poems inspired by a single genre of music they choose. They are then able to set their poems or lyrics if you will, to music using the Macbook computers. This project will be completed partially in class this week only and then the students will have time outside of class to finish as well. The due date for this project is March 20th. I will post a rubric for the project soon.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Black History Poetry Project Rubric
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE RUBRIC FOR YOUR CLASS PERIOD AND MAKE SURE YOU LOOK AT THIS ENTIRE POST. THERE ARE TWO RUBRICS CONTAINED IN THIS POST. THIS PROJECT IS DUE WEDNESDAY, MARCH, FOURTH (3/4/09).
PERIODS: 3 & 4
Research an African-American poet and create a book to showcase the talents of that writer. Your book must include the following and has the following point totals:
____ 25 pts. Front Cover: Must be a hand drawing, cannot be a photocopy or internet picture (10pts.), must be in color/colored (5 pts.), must have a title (5 pts.), must be legible (5 pts)
____ 10 pts. Table of Contents: page numbers (5 pts.) and description (5 pts.)
____ 90 pts. Three significant pieces of work by your poet (30 pts. each piece): Title of work (5 pts.), Source (5 pts.), piece of work and its significance (20 pts)
____ 50 pts. Original Poem created by you and inspired by a poem from your poet: original poem – must be two or more stanzas and must be 10 or more lines (25 pts.) and analysis – explain the text connection to your author’s piece that inspired you to write your original piece.
175 Total points possible
PERIODS 2, 5 & 6
Research an African-American poet and create a book to showcase the talents of that writer. Your book must include the following and has the following point totals:
____ 25 pts. Front Cover: Must be a hand drawing, cannot be a photocopy or internet picture (10pts.), must be in color/colored (5 pts.), must have a title (5 pts.), must be legible (5 pts)
____ 10 pts. Table of Contents: page numbers (5 pts.) and description (5 pts.)
____ 90 pts. Three significant pieces of work by your poet (30 pts. each piece): Title of work (5 pts.), Source (5 pts.), piece of work and its significance (20 pts)
____ 50 pts. Original Poem created by you and inspired by a poem from your poet: original poem – must be two or more stanzas and must be 10 or more lines (25 pts.) and analysis – explain the text connection to your author’s piece that inspired you to write your original piece.
175 Total possible points
___ 25 pts. Using a collage, an imovie, PowerPoint, Keynote etc…, analyze and show the connection between the author’s tone in his/her poems and the time period in which he/she wrote. Research the time period in which the author wrote and make a connection between the types of poems or the themes in the author’s poetry and the specific time period. Take into account the author’s view of society and society’s view of the author in that particular time period. Demonstrate this connection using a visual presentation. Be creative.
Entire project 200 total points possible
PERIODS: 3 & 4
Research an African-American poet and create a book to showcase the talents of that writer. Your book must include the following and has the following point totals:
____ 25 pts. Front Cover: Must be a hand drawing, cannot be a photocopy or internet picture (10pts.), must be in color/colored (5 pts.), must have a title (5 pts.), must be legible (5 pts)
____ 10 pts. Table of Contents: page numbers (5 pts.) and description (5 pts.)
____ 90 pts. Three significant pieces of work by your poet (30 pts. each piece): Title of work (5 pts.), Source (5 pts.), piece of work and its significance (20 pts)
____ 50 pts. Original Poem created by you and inspired by a poem from your poet: original poem – must be two or more stanzas and must be 10 or more lines (25 pts.) and analysis – explain the text connection to your author’s piece that inspired you to write your original piece.
175 Total points possible
PERIODS 2, 5 & 6
Research an African-American poet and create a book to showcase the talents of that writer. Your book must include the following and has the following point totals:
____ 25 pts. Front Cover: Must be a hand drawing, cannot be a photocopy or internet picture (10pts.), must be in color/colored (5 pts.), must have a title (5 pts.), must be legible (5 pts)
____ 10 pts. Table of Contents: page numbers (5 pts.) and description (5 pts.)
____ 90 pts. Three significant pieces of work by your poet (30 pts. each piece): Title of work (5 pts.), Source (5 pts.), piece of work and its significance (20 pts)
____ 50 pts. Original Poem created by you and inspired by a poem from your poet: original poem – must be two or more stanzas and must be 10 or more lines (25 pts.) and analysis – explain the text connection to your author’s piece that inspired you to write your original piece.
175 Total possible points
___ 25 pts. Using a collage, an imovie, PowerPoint, Keynote etc…, analyze and show the connection between the author’s tone in his/her poems and the time period in which he/she wrote. Research the time period in which the author wrote and make a connection between the types of poems or the themes in the author’s poetry and the specific time period. Take into account the author’s view of society and society’s view of the author in that particular time period. Demonstrate this connection using a visual presentation. Be creative.
Entire project 200 total points possible
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Third District Writing Prompt
Prompt: Writing to Persuade (Persuasive)
Writing Situation: In many households where there are teenagers, there are often arguments over cell phones.
Directions for Writing: Think about the importance of having a cell phone. Now write to persuade your parents to buy you a cell phone or to allow you to keep the cell phone you already own.
Writing Situation: In many households where there are teenagers, there are often arguments over cell phones.
Directions for Writing: Think about the importance of having a cell phone. Now write to persuade your parents to buy you a cell phone or to allow you to keep the cell phone you already own.
Parents I need your help!!!
Parents I am enlisting your help. Any writing help that you can give to your children at home to back up what we are doing in school would be very helpful. FCAT Writes is the second week in February and quickly approaching. Right now the students have just finished their third district writing prompt and we are now working on grammar and conventions. If you see them with a Writing & Grammar book, ask them about it. If you should happen to go out to a fast food restaurant and your child orders fries ask them what F.R.I.E.S. means in Language Arts. If you ask them a question and the answer they give does not completely answer your question, ask them how can they make their answer better according to the short response rubric or the extended response rubric and ask them how many lines they have to use in the short and extended response boxes. These are the things they will need to concentrate on for FCAT Writes. Thank you for all that you do parents and I am grateful for your continued support.
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