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1 Poetry Presentation Project Ms. Tan/English 9 Components Visual (PowerPoint) - 25 Presentation - 10 Delivery - 10 Turn in - 5 Total = 50 points
2 Visual Informational slide: your name, poem title, poet s name Include a slide featuring a brief poet biography: four key facts about the poet Include a slide with vocabulary words or explained allusions Include a slide that describes your summary and interpretation (what you think poem is about) of the poem Show a copy of the poem to the class Animated annotations of at least three poetic devices A Poem Chart of your three poetic devices and the theme of the poem Presentation Read the poem aloud to the class Point out accurate examples of at least three poetic devices Develop a strong theme of the poem Explain how the three poetic devices contributes to the theme of the poem You must present on the day you sign up for, or else you will suffer a penalty of 10% or a zero Between two to four minutes long
3 Delivery Read the poem with emotion, paying attention to the punctuations of the poem. Your voice must be projected throughout the classroom, not mumbled behind your notes. You must have eye contact with your audience. You must be dressed in business casual attire (a nice top over jeans is fine). You are encouraged to use notecards, but you should not simply read from them. Turn in Your original poem, annotated A handwritten Poem Chart (worksheet)
4 Sample Presentation Billy Collins A Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, where he has worked for over thirty years. He is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 In 2002, he read his poem The Names in a special session of Congress to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 attacks He instituted the program Poetry 180 (one poem per day of school) to encourage high school student to read more poetry.
5 Billy Collins A Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, where he has worked for over thirty years. He is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 In 2002, he read his poem The Names in a special session of Congress to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 attacks He instituted the program Poetry 180 (one poem per day of school) to encourage high school student to read more poetry. Definitions Introduction to Poetry is an allusion to names of classes in college. A color slide is an old version of placing images on film, and a projector to enlarge the photo.
6 Summary and Interpretation The poem is spoken from the point of view of a professor who wants his students to view poetry in a certain way: fun and full of discovery. However, his students only see poetry as painful, and instead they torture answers out of it. tone change Introduction to Poetry 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 5 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 10 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 15 to find out what it really means. simile imagery metaphor imagery personification personification metaphor
7 Poetic Device, Quote, Line # Interpretation Theme speaker, the whole poem simile like a color slide (line 3) metaphor, waterski across the surface of a poem (9-10) The speaker is a teacher or professor, explaining how he wants students to feel about poetry. Has a positive connotation of discovery. Has a positive connotation of fun. Poetry is meant to be discovered with joy, and not a painful task. (except #1) Google Poetry 180
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