I began my multimodal project with the idea of creating a two voice poetry book with illustrations and a recorded CD of each poem being read. I was soon after introduced to the myebook site and decided to make the book completely digital. I began my first drafts jotting down poems that stemmed from some of the things that I wrote down when I created the cover for my daybook featuring the “one hundred things that I love”. From these many things, I decided to go with a nature theme for my book and chose butterflies, flowers, trees, raindrops, and snowflakes to be the subjects of the five poems that I would write. The first drafts are not as long and polished as my final drafts, but they were a necessary starting point that allowed me to get my creative ideas flowing. I went on to my second draft, improving and lengthening each poem. The first and second draft experiences were surprisingly simple for me, as I progressed with the poems, they became easier and easier to create. I originally expected to deal with extreme writer’s block during the composition process. After my second drafts were completed, I created a myebook account and got started. The website was a little tricky at first, but after I became more familiar with the ebook builder tools, I was able to create the book very easily. I incorporated images from the web to serve as water color backgrounds on each page. I also recorded each poem with my sister. Each audio file created was uploaded onto the ebook site and placed on each page. The final draft was a true success and is a project of which I am very proud. The genre that I chose for this project was poetry, but I decided to focus on a subgenre of poetry – two voice poetry. This subgenre of poetry is characterized by poems written in two columns, some of the words in each column are meant to be spoken simultaneously, and others are meant to be read alone. The poems are characterized by a song-like rhythm and must be practiced to be read properly.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Genre References
Two voice poetry references:
"Joyful Noise" by Paul Flieschman
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson391/two-voice.pdf (definition and activity - great teacher resource)
http://www.writingfix.com/PDFs/Comparison_Contrast/Poem_Two_Voices.pdf (additional worksheet - great teacher resource)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uGojuhJN9I&feature=related (video recording of "Water Striders" by Paul Flieschman)
"Joyful Noise" by Paul Flieschman
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson391/two-voice.pdf (definition and activity - great teacher resource)
http://www.writingfix.com/PDFs/Comparison_Contrast/Poem_Two_Voices.pdf (additional worksheet - great teacher resource)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uGojuhJN9I&feature=related (video recording of "Water Striders" by Paul Flieschman)
Two Voice Poetry Book Draft 2
Butterfly
Flutter
By
Flutter Flutter
By
Butterflies
Flutterbies
Our wings Our wings
Painted
Fragile
Beautiful
We fly We fly
Fluttering
Flittering Fluttering
Fluttering Flittering
By
Floating
Over grassy fields
Across river banks
Through quiet forests
We fly We fly
On painted wings
We soar We soar
On summer breeze
Away Away
We will retreat
When leaves
Are painted
With Autumn's grace
We flutter
Flutter Flitter
Flitter Flutter
Flutter Flitter
Flutter Flutter
By.
A Flower's Life
We are seeds
Deep in the earth
Change Change
We feel lighter
Sunlight
We are free
We feel rain
Falling out of the sky
We grow We grow
Tall
Reaching Reaching
Higher
Change Change
We bloom
Leaves
Green
Sky
Blue
Sun
Shine
Seasons
Change
The air The air
Is cold
The days The days
Grow short
The leaves The leaves
Change
We wilt We wilt
With the cold
It's time to go
We say goodbye
To the deep blue sky
to the tall tall trees
To the blades of grass
Goodbye
Goodbye
Now we must die
But we'll come again
When the sun rays shine
And warms the earth
For life again.
We Are Trees
Oh the things
That we have seen
We have seen We have seen
Centuries
Pass
Wars
Come
Wars
End
People People
Come
And go
Time Time
Passes
Leaves Leaves
Change
The world
Keeps turning
Changing
Changing
Yet we remain Yet we remain
Add
A ring
For every year For every year
We will be here
Until the end
We fear We fear
To see much more
Come to pass
For time
As we said
Lasts and lasts Lasts and lasts
Beech
Maple
Oak
Ash
Birch
Willow
Poplar
Pine
We are trees We are trees
Growing
Tall
Standing
Still
Deciduous
And Evergreen
As
Time
Goes
On.
Raindrops
Down
Down
Down
We go
Towards the Earth
From the sky
From the clouds
To the ground
Down
We
Go
SMASH
On the rocks
SPLASH
In the stream
TAP
On the glass
We pour We pour
Ourselves
Out
Covering
The ground
Quenching
The dirt
We make puddles
For yellow rain boots
Of children
To play To play
The sound we make
On the roof
Makes many
Want to sleep
But when thunder cracks
And lightning strikes
They lay awake instead
It's raining It's raining
Cats
And dogs
They say
But we beg to disagree
We are raindrops We are raindrops
Soaring
Down
Down
Down
We go.
Snowflakes
The air
Is cold
We form
So cold
We fall
Still cold
A blanket
Ice cold
We make
White White
Our shapes
Unique Unique
Look close
You'll see You'll see
We blow
Across Across
The sky
On wind
We soar We soar
Until
We land
And melt
Or stay
Winter
Is our season
A wonderland
We make
For children
We mean school is out
They cry
SNOW DAY SNOW DAY
Snow men
Igloos
Forts
They make
Their angels
Form around us
The sun The sun
Shines bright
We start to fade
We melt We melt
Away
Away
Away
We go
But we'll be back
Some day
We are snowflakes We are snowflakes
We cannot stay
Flutter
By
Flutter Flutter
By
Butterflies
Flutterbies
Our wings Our wings
Painted
Fragile
Beautiful
We fly We fly
Fluttering
Flittering Fluttering
Fluttering Flittering
By
Floating
Over grassy fields
Across river banks
Through quiet forests
We fly We fly
On painted wings
We soar We soar
On summer breeze
Away Away
We will retreat
When leaves
Are painted
With Autumn's grace
We flutter
Flutter Flitter
Flitter Flutter
Flutter Flitter
Flutter Flutter
By.
A Flower's Life
We are seeds
Deep in the earth
Change Change
We feel lighter
Sunlight
We are free
We feel rain
Falling out of the sky
We grow We grow
Tall
Reaching Reaching
Higher
Change Change
We bloom
Leaves
Green
Sky
Blue
Sun
Shine
Seasons
Change
The air The air
Is cold
The days The days
Grow short
The leaves The leaves
Change
We wilt We wilt
With the cold
It's time to go
We say goodbye
To the deep blue sky
to the tall tall trees
To the blades of grass
Goodbye
Goodbye
Now we must die
But we'll come again
When the sun rays shine
And warms the earth
For life again.
We Are Trees
Oh the things
That we have seen
We have seen We have seen
Centuries
Pass
Wars
Come
Wars
End
People People
Come
And go
Time Time
Passes
Leaves Leaves
Change
The world
Keeps turning
Changing
Changing
Yet we remain Yet we remain
Add
A ring
For every year For every year
We will be here
Until the end
We fear We fear
To see much more
Come to pass
For time
As we said
Lasts and lasts Lasts and lasts
Beech
Maple
Oak
Ash
Birch
Willow
Poplar
Pine
We are trees We are trees
Growing
Tall
Standing
Still
Deciduous
And Evergreen
As
Time
Goes
On.
Raindrops
Down
Down
Down
We go
Towards the Earth
From the sky
From the clouds
To the ground
Down
We
Go
SMASH
On the rocks
SPLASH
In the stream
TAP
On the glass
We pour We pour
Ourselves
Out
Covering
The ground
Quenching
The dirt
We make puddles
For yellow rain boots
Of children
To play To play
The sound we make
On the roof
Makes many
Want to sleep
But when thunder cracks
And lightning strikes
They lay awake instead
It's raining It's raining
Cats
And dogs
They say
But we beg to disagree
We are raindrops We are raindrops
Soaring
Down
Down
Down
We go.
Snowflakes
The air
Is cold
We form
So cold
We fall
Still cold
A blanket
Ice cold
We make
White White
Our shapes
Unique Unique
Look close
You'll see You'll see
We blow
Across Across
The sky
On wind
We soar We soar
Until
We land
And melt
Or stay
Winter
Is our season
A wonderland
We make
For children
We mean school is out
They cry
SNOW DAY SNOW DAY
Snow men
Igloos
Forts
They make
Their angels
Form around us
The sun The sun
Shines bright
We start to fade
We melt We melt
Away
Away
Away
We go
But we'll be back
Some day
We are snowflakes We are snowflakes
We cannot stay
Two Voice Poetry Book Final Draft
Below is a link to the ebook that I created to hold my poems for two voices:
Myebook - Nature's Voices
Myebook - Nature's Voices
Introduction: Photo Story Piece
I was very intrigued by the mini lesson that began the interest for my “Photo Story Piece”. I even used the idea for my Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age Class with a photo prompt activity that allowed students to write a story from a famous photo of the Civil Rights era. My revision began after reading over my first draft, I knew that I wanted to continue with the piece and find another picture to use and change my story so I searched online for a picture taken during the Great Depression. After I found an interesting photograph, I pasted it onto a word document and began typing a short narrative from the perspective of the young boy in the foreground of the photo. From the second draft, I moved to glogster and created a glog that includes the narrative, photo, video from “SchoolTube”, and graphics. To create this final product, I used the glog genre (glogs have become a new and innovative digital genre) and histoical photo based writing to create a fictional narrative genre, which uses photography as a creative writing prompt. The fictional narrative genre allows the writer to create a narrative that is completely made up, they can make the narrative realistic or unrealistic and branch into any other genre they choose such as science fiction, fantasy, memoirs, and many others . I combined these two genres to create a “Fictional Narrative Glog”.
Genre References
Below are links to some of the sites that I used as references to help me create my final product:
Glogster:
http://edu.glogster.com/what-is-glogster-edu/
http://glogsteredu.edu.glogster.com/glog-edu/
Fictional Narrative:
http://www.greatsource.com/iwrite/students/s_fic_narr.html
examples:
http://old.sandi.net/depts/literacy/student_sample/narrative/7_ondemand.pdf
Photo Prompt Writing:
http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/
examples:
http://ettc.lrhsd.org/pictureprompt/intro.html
Glogster:
http://edu.glogster.com/what-is-glogster-edu/
http://glogsteredu.edu.glogster.com/glog-edu/
Fictional Narrative:
http://www.greatsource.com/iwrite/students/s_fic_narr.html
examples:
http://old.sandi.net/depts/literacy/student_sample/narrative/7_ondemand.pdf
Photo Prompt Writing:
http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/
examples:
http://ettc.lrhsd.org/pictureprompt/intro.html
Photo Story Piece Draft 2
1930, Great Depression
greatdepression-causes.com
I don’t know why this man with his fancy picture taker keeps coming by to see me and Jeremy. He talks to mama for a while, snaps a few pictures of us, and then he is gone. I’m hungry, there’s a hollow feeling in my stomach that won’t go away. I gave my bread mama gave us to Jeremy last night, he ate it gratefully, gobbling it up like it would disappear. They call this place that we live in a Hooverville in this big old Dust Bowl that’s all around us. I feel like I’ve been rolling in this giant Bowl of Dust for years and years. The dirt sticks to me and won’t let go, mama tries to wash me and Jeremy off but it doesn’t do any good. Our Pa left us a few months ago; he said it wasn’t worth it anymore. I still don’t know what he meant by that. Were we not worth it anymore? Was life not worth it anymore? Was trying to fight his way out of this bowl of dust not worth it anymore? I don’t know. I’m only five, so maybe I’ll know when I’m older. He told me and Jeremy that he loved us, and that I would have to be the man of the family now. I’m only five.
Photo Story Piece Final Draft
Below is a link to the glog I created as a final draft of my photo story piece that originated from the daybook activity we did as a class for the mini lesson on photo prompt writing:
Photo Story Piece - eportfolio: text, images, music, video Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students
Photo Story Piece - eportfolio: text, images, music, video Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students
Introduction: Name Piece
I began the process of revision on my daybook “Name Piece” with the first draft that I created at the beginning of the semester when our class began to discuss the significance and origins of our names. I originally wanted to revise the piece leaving the focus on my name, how I got it, and the quirky reactions that I receive from people who I meet for the first time. As a read over my first draft, my eyes were constantly drawn back to the section where I briefly discussed that my grandfather wanted a granddaughter named Nicolette and the clever monetary reference in many of my family member’s names, including my own. From my first draft, I decided to go a different route and write a short biography that focused on my grandfather and tied his success as a horseman to his children and myself. After typing the second draft, I decided to place my biography on a glog that would hold pictures of my grandfather and other family members with the horses that have shaped three generations of the Lovell’s. In doing so, I created a hybrid genre. Glogs have become a genre of their own; they are digital poster tools that hold vast amounts of digital media. With the glog, I included a biography, which details the life of a person with factual information. By blending these two genres, I created a “Biographical Glog” that honors the memory of my grandfather, Cash Lovell Sr..
Genre References
Below are links to some of the sites that I used as references to help me create my final product:
Glogster
http://edu.glogster.com/what-is-glogster-edu/
http://glogsteredu.edu.glogster.com/glog-edu/
Biography
http://library.thinkquest.org/4155/Genre.html
example: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/media/hh/pdfs/samplepapers/biography_sample.pdf (great teacher resource for introducing biography into a classroom)
Glogster
http://edu.glogster.com/what-is-glogster-edu/
http://glogsteredu.edu.glogster.com/glog-edu/
Biography
http://library.thinkquest.org/4155/Genre.html
example: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/media/hh/pdfs/samplepapers/biography_sample.pdf (great teacher resource for introducing biography into a classroom)
Name Piece Draft 2
The Lovell Family and the American Saddlebred
Nicolette Lovell
I have always been told that my grandfather was a great horse trainer, blacksmith, and bit maker. I have also been told of his heart of gold and laugh that could be heard from miles around. I never knew my grandfather; I was a baby when he passed away in 1991. Since I was a little girl, I've been told that my name, Nicolette came from him. For years he expressed his desire to have a granddaughter named Nicolette. My family had a money theme going: Cash (the names of my grandfather and uncle) Penny (the name of my aunt) and Nicolette -- Nickel- ette... get it? The Lovell's are so clever. Even though I never knew my grandfather, I have been told countless stories about the wonderful and talented man that he was.
My grandfather did not begin his career in the horse business until he returned from Germany after WWII. He met my grandmother, Marge at an air force base in Texas where she was working as a secretary. They were married and moved back to Missouri, then to Kentucky, Iowa, Tennessee, back to Iowa, and then they finally ended up in North Carolina. Throughout their travels, my grandfather worked as a horse trainer and blacksmith, he became a well known talent on the East Coast Saddlebred Circuit, training many famous names that went on to the World Championships in Louisville Kentucky. During this time my grandparents raised their four children Cash Jr., Tommy (my father), Rodney, and Penny. My grandfather did not realize his talent for bit making until he came up with his idea for the interchangeable bit one night at the kitchen table. He patented his idea and started making this bit that became popular worldwide, selling to buyers from South Africa to Europe. From his tiny idea, the Lovell Bit Company was created and is headed by my uncle Rodney today in the tiny shop behind my grandmother’s house. Countless champions have graced the green shavings of Louisville with a Lovell bit in their mouth. My uncle Cash Jr. is a very successful horse trainer and owner of Cash Lovell Stables and Riding Academy in Winston Salem. My father, Tommy is an accomplished equine artist. His wood carved rocking horses are famous throughout the United States Saddlebred industry. My dad also passed on his love of the Saddlebred horse to me and my sisters. We have shown Saddlebreds since our childhood and continue to do so today.
The Lovell family has loved and been involved with the American Saddlebred horse for three generations. My grandfather Cash Lovell Sr. was the base of this connection that has grown and thrived in my family over the past 60 years. My grandfather was inducted into the United Professional Horseman’s Hall of Fame in 1991 for his numerous accomplishments in the Saddlebred Industry, that same year he passed away at the age of 62. I envy those who had the privilege of knowing my grandfather, I am told often about the wonderful person that he was, and how proud he would have been to see my sisters and I ride, show, and love horses as much as he did.
Name Piece Final Draft
Below is a link to the glog I created for the final draft of my daybook name piece:
Cash Lovell Sr. - Eportfolio: text, images, music, video Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students
Cash Lovell Sr. - Eportfolio: text, images, music, video Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students
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