Junior+Honors+Poetry+Presentations

= Junior Honors Poetry Presentation Project // @Poetry Project Resources // = = = Over the next few weeks you will be creating a Power Point presentation in a group on an assigned poet. The class will be broken down into groups of 3-4 people. We will vote on the presentations in each class. The winners will be awarded extra credit and the knowledge that they are awesome, amazing, etc.

Each member of the group will be posting a daily report detailing how they participated in the group project. If you are not participating, you will not receive credit for this project. These points are awarded for being in class and participating – they cannot be made up! All presentations will be created in class on the district wireless lab provided. I will not allow outside presentations to be brought in. We will have assigned days in class where you will be working on the presentation and web research.

Your group must acquire information on the poet from at least two different online books as well as four reputable web sites.

**You will need to create a bibliography in MLA format for all your sources used in the presentation**. Use the following web site to create your bibliography @http://citationmachine.net/ Make sure you keep track of your sites visited and referenced so your bibliography will be easier to put together. Any website you use direct quotes and resources from must be included in your bibliography. Failure to do so is plagiarism and your grade will be negatively impacted!

You will be including background information on the poet such as birth/death days, place of birth, upbringing, style of writing, books and works, etc. (3 slides) You will also include information on how the poet effected society or other writers. (2 slides) Within the presentation you will be analyzing at least two pieces of work from the poet. (5-6 slides) Your bibliography will need 1-2 slides. This means the entire presentation should be no less than eleven slides long. You will need to have a theme running through the presentation. You must incorporate pictures, sound, and animation in your presentation. Your group must also use one of the apps on the iTouch to enhance your presentation. Some suggestions are: Slideshow, Story Kit, YouTube, Splice, Animation, Collage

Your presentation will be judged in the following areas: Subject Knowledge Citing Sources Organization Originality Mechanics Oral Presentation Visual Elements

Each group will need to have at least three possible poets in mind for the presentation. To make it fair I will be using the Teachers Pick App on the iPod. The app will randomly choose student's names. When your name is announced your group will be allowed to choose a poet. Please take some time to view the possible poets and discuss your choices with your group members. Poet Options
 * Poet Selection **

//**@Poetry Analysis **//

Poetry analysis is the process of investigating a poem's form, content, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work.

The words //poem// and //poetry// derive from the Greek //poiēma//(to make) and//poieo//(to create). That is, a poem is a//made thing//: a creation; an artefact. One might think of a poem as, in the words of William Carlos Williams, a "machine made of words". Machines produce some effect, or do some work. They do whatever they are designed to do. The work done by this "machine made of words" is the effect it produces in the reader's mind. A reader analyzing a poem is akin to a mechanic taking apart a machine in order to figure out how it works.

Like poetry itself, poetry analysis can take many forms, and be undertaken for many different reasons. A teacher might analyze a poem in order to gain a more conscious understanding of how the poem achieves its effects, in order to communicate this to his or her students. A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen his or her own mastery. A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem.