standards: 7 th grade ela, performance indicators, standard 2, writing: -compare and contrast...
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Standards:
7th Grade ELA, Performance Indicators, Standard 2, Writing:
-Compare and contrast literary elements in more than one genre and/or by more than one author.
ISTE NET:
1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression
Objective
Student will be able to begin to compare and contrast key literary elements (e.g., symbolism, metaphor and simile, alliteration, personification) in more than one genre and/or by more than one author. Student will be able to begin to develop a digital jump start to demonstrate creative thinking, apply existing knowledge and form original works.
“Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.”
(Langston Hughes)
“crossing basketballcourts and no-nettedhoops
“slam-dunking yourself through a thin orangehalo…
“tiptoeing across theclick-clacking glowof bodega lights”(Black Cat, Christopher Myers).
Directions for Digital Jump Start (DJ) Activity• Open the PowerPoint program on your computer.• Open your e-mail from [email protected] • Choose two of the quotes provided, which contain literary elements from different genres, copy and paste them into PowerPoint. (If you are having trouble accessing your e-mail, the quotations may also be found on the back of this page).• Label which literary device(s) you chose.• Add at least one picture to your PowerPoint presentation to illustrate the quotes you chose.• Add a video clip to your PowerPoint presentation to represent the quotes you chose.• Add music or sound to reflect the quote you chose.• For homework, complete the above steps and add two more quotes, pictures, video clips and sounds.
Literary Device Game: Test Your Knowledge!http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/game/play.phtml?dest=Lit_v52.dcr&width=500&height=300&ini=lesson1.ini&height2=296
References:
All book cover pictures from www.amazon.com
Movie posters accessed from Google images:http://filmfries.com/wp-content/ uploads/image/the_chronicles_of_narnia _prince_caspian02.jpg
http://img7.xooimage.com/files/s/t/star-wars-950c0.png
Slide 6 movie clip self-recorded.
Slides 7 and 8 from PowerPoint clip art.
Painting of black cat from Black Cat, written and illustrated by Christopher Myers:
Myers, C. Black Cat. Scholastic Press: New York. 1999.