3D Poetry

To demonstrate your poetic writing skills and to integrate multimedia presentations we will write a poem and present it to the class using PowerPoint®.

Checklist of requirements:

1. ___ Write a 14-line sonnet with the theme of ‘My Home’.
2. ___ Make a collection of images that express the theme of your poem. Images may be hand drawn and scanned, may come from image banks online, or may be drawn on computer programs (scanned images are better).
3. ___ You need 1 image and a new page for every 4 lines (4 pages total + 1 that shows your whole poem).
4. ___ Select music to accompany your presentation (instrumental preferred).
5. ___ Input your poem and images to PowerPoint® program.

• Your poems will be presented to the class on Date: ____________.

Tentative Schedule

Date: ____________.
– Introduction to assignment and read sonnets
– Mini-lessons on more poetic devices
– Select music and images

Date: ____________.
- Input poems to PowerPoint®

Date: ____________.
- Present poems with music and images (using microphone)

• On the day you present, you must turn in:
  Music to be played
  Hard copy of poem
  Complete PowerPoint®

Note: This assignment sheet is being used by the High Plains R*TEC with the special permission of its creator, David Munro. Reproduction of this page is acceptable as long as this note is included.