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visualpoetrytsl TEACHER SUBMITTED LESSON PLAN: HEADLINE: Visual Poetry Lets Students "See" the Words TAGLINE: *** Create a PowerPoint presentation that transforms words into pictures! LuAnn Kaiser, a teacher at Wausa Public School in Wausa, Nebraska, submitted this week's lesson, in which students create slides depicting visual images in a poem. [NOTE TO PATTY/NANCY: TEXT OF LESSON APPEARS BELOW. THIS IS COPY-EDITED TEXT, SO IT NEEDS TO REPLACE ANY PREVIOUSLY POSTED TEXT.] Title: Visual Poetry Subject Areas: Arts, Literature, Creative Writing Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12, Advanced Brief Description: Students interpret visual images from text and create a slide show depicting those images. Objectives: Students will learn to visually interpret text and to create a PowerPoint presentation. Key Concepts: poetry, slides, imagery, language arts, PowerPoint, graphics Materials Needed: Computers with PowerPoint software (or another presentation-type software) and Internet access, www.visualparadox.com Visual Paradox http://www.freestuffcenter.com/sub/graphicstop.html Free Graphics Lesson Plan: Students use PowerPoint to create a slide show that depicts a visual interpretation of a favorite poem. Ask students to select a favorite poem. Help students use the Web sites provided and other online resources to find images and backgrounds that fit the text of the poem and design ten slides that represent the images in the poem. Have students create a Power Point presentation, with a minimum of ten slides, using the images found as well as snippets of text. Encourage them to use animation and custom timing selections available with the program. Assessment: Each presentation is evaluated by the teacher, by the student who created it, and by another student. A rubric, with grades of 'Below Average,' 'Average,' and 'Above Average,' is used to assess each student's ability to follow directions and to use PowerPoint's various features, as well as to evaluate the presentation's visual appeal and creativity. Lesson Plan Source: LuAnn Kaiser, Wausa Public School, Wausa, Nebraska [LuAnn Kaiser [email protected]]

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