Poetry Coffeehouse

Heroic Poetry Coffeehouse

Words mean more than what is set down on paper.  It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

*Maya Angelou

How do heroes throw “life lines”?

Objectives:

ü Write a poem about a person who is a hero or your hero that lends itself to being read aloud and/or performed.

ü Practice performance

ü Present poetry reading to the class

ü Use a rubric to rate performance

Poetry Requirements:

ü Must cover appropriate material

ü A creative, research-based, heroic poem of 20+ lines

ü A separate paragraph explaining why the person is your hero.

ü Creatively display poem and the paragraph in a booklet/folder.

Poetry Presentation:

ü On the day of the coffeehouse, you will present your poem to the class by reading it aloud.

Today:

ü Poetry writing workshop

ü selecting a special individual in your life, explaining reasons why they represent a hero figure

ü Work on first draft (this is the only class period)

Friday 1/17/2014: Poetry Coffeehouse Reading!

Poetry Coffeehouse

If you'd like to provide snacks for Friday's coffeehouse, here is the approved list:

  

Original Flavored Rice Krispies Treats

 Original Flavored Chips Ahoy

Original Flavored Oreo cookies

Ritz Crackers

Bachman Pretzels

Wise Cheese doodles

Technical Projects--Post here!

Please post your link to your website, Animoto, blog, etc.

Posting instructions:

1. Copy and paste the link of the site
2. Put your first name and last initial of both people (if you had a partner).
3. Write down your teacher's name.

So:
website
Elizabeth D. and Adam T.
Mr. T and Miss D. 

Now:
Click "comments"
A white box will appear, enter your information. 
The drop down menu will ask who is posting, choose "Anonymous."
SUBMIT.
Should now say "comment is awaiting moderation."

Contest

Siegelbaum Literary & Visual Arts Competition
Theme: See No Evil
Divisions: Middle School (grades 6 through 8)
High School (grades 9 through 12)
Categories: Prose or poetry, visual arts
Entry deadline: Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 4 pm
Winners will be notified by phone in late April
NEW THIS YEAR!!!
First prize winners in each category will receive a
Kindle Fire HD 7" Tablet

The Siegelbaum Literary and Visual Arts Competition
Contest Guidelines
1. All entries must relate to the contest theme: See No Evil.
2. All entries must be accompanied by a completed Siegelbaum Literary & Visual Arts Competition Entry Form. If the entry was created by a group, there must be a completed entry form for each and every student who participated in it.
3. Entries must fall into one of the following categories: prose, poetry, visual arts.
4. All entries submitted must be original and unpublished. No revisions will be accepted once an entry is received.
5. By entering the Siegelbaum Literary and Visual Arts Competition, youth writers/artists and their parents/guardians give the Holocaust Museum & Study Center permission to use their names and submissions in print or internet form. All rights revert back to the authors/artists after June 30, 2014.
6. All prose entries must be in 12 point type, double spaced, and must be 1imited to 500 words.
7. All poetry entries must be in 12 point type and double spaced.
8. No handwritten Literary entries will be accepted.
9. Artwork must be framed, mounted and ready to hang, and may be no larger than 30” by 40”
10. Video presentations must be submitted in CD or DVD format, and must be no more than 10 minutes in length.
11. All entries must be received at the Museum no later than Thursday, March 6, 2014, at 4:00 P.M.
12. All art entries will be displayed.
13. Entries will be separated into two divisions: one for Middle School/Junior High School students (grades 6 through 8), and the other for students in High School (grades 9 through 12).
14. Winners will be notified by phone in late April/early May 2014. Only winners will be contacted.
15. Winners will be recognized at a reception to be held on Monday, May 19, 2014.
16. All entries may be picked up after May 30, 2014. Entries which have not been reclaimed by July 31, 2014 become the property of the Museum.
17. Any piece of Literary or Visual Art which falls outside the guidelines will not be accepted as an entry into the Siegelbaum Competition.
Inquiries and entries may be directed to:
Holocaust Museum & Study Center
at Rockland Community College
Siegelbaum Literary and Visual Arts Competition
145 College Road; Brucker Hall #6103
Suffern, NY 10901
(845) 574-4099
museum@holocauststudies.org
www.holocauststudies.org

Holocaust Survivor Project

Holocaust Witness and Remembrance

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness”—Elie Wiesel, Night.

Goal:  Your task is to create and generate a written, oral, or visual project that will reflect on the life of a Holocaust survivor. 

Your project must address responses to the following three questions:

·        How was your survivor impacted by intolerance during the Holocaust? (what happened to them)

·        How do positivity and hopefulness influence seemingly doomed environments and situations? (how they coped)

·        How are humans strengthened by other humans and an experience like they had during the Holocaust? (how their lives were affected as a result of their experience)

Over the next few days: 

You must select a survivor whose story you will retell when we return to school next week.  Use this website to explore the life of a survivor: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/

or a similar website of your own finding. 

You will begin a project of your choice. 

You must select a partner from your LA class or a student from the same period in Mr. Tategenhorst/Miss Drosdick’s class. (We will all be working together in one location.)

Ideas include:

Written	Oral **these will be presented to the class so be prepared to share them with the class or the special guest	Visual **all visual components must include a written portion explaining why you made decisions to use specific medium of materials, captions, etc.
Written	Oral	Visual
·        Biography ·        Brochure for a trip through the person’s life ·        Blog diary ·        Wiki page biography ·        Itinerary for a trip to meet the person, go to their hometown, through where they went to survive, and where their life took them afterwards (this includes flights, locations of places) ·        Essay ·        historical nonfiction writing piece ·        journal entries by the person in a crafty journal ·        letter to the person ·        magazine article ·        play (with a written script) about their experiences (like the adaptation we read) ·        poems totaling 50 lines	·        oral history talking about the person’s life (media file) ·        radio script interview ·        raps totaling 50 lines ·        songs totaling 50 lines ·        informative and animated speech (in character) ·        recorded personal instrumental piece created (with a written component about why you made musical changes in tone, tempo, instrument, etc)	·        Graphic novel adaptation of survivor’s story (must have scenes) ·        design a 3-D memorial statue and an engraving in honor of the survivor ·        design a museum display dedicated to your person ·        painting ·        scrapbook ·        sculpture representing their life ·        Prezi ·        Animoto video ·        Movie maker ·        Digital storytelling ·        Website ·