Learning Target (Curricular Competencies): Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and extend thinking. Use digital media to collaborate and communicate both within the classroom and beyond its walls.

Become a Digital Poet

The primary purpose of descriptive writing is to describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind. Capturing an event or scene through descriptive writing involves paying close attention to the details by using all of your five senses:  that is imagery.  Literary elements enhance and shape meaning and impact of the experience and description. Review the poetic terms on the previous page so you can incorporate figurative language into your descriptive assignment.  Descriptive writing incorporates imagery and figurative language. Watch the video below to review descriptive writing.

To deepen your understanding of sense of place through description, you will develop a descriptive poem on a place/idea that is or was meaningful to you. To capture the essence of this place, the feeling or mood, you will need to use specific details to describe your topic.  Here are some new media tools and ideas to become a descriptive digital poet.

Ideas

Students can:

• go on a poetry tour of the city. Check out Poetry Tours by the Poetry Foundation.
• animate their poems with digital poster tools, like EduBuncee, Flowvella, Sway, HaikuDeck, Adobe Slate, Canva, Tackk, Visme, Smore, ThingLink, Biteslides, and EduGlogster.
• produce cool videos of their poems with Powtoon, Touchcast, WeVideo, iMovie, Animoto, Magisto, or other video creation tools and apps.
• create digital poetry portfolios with free web tools and apps, like Weebly, Educlipper, Blendspace, Pinterest, and Livebinders.
• share their poetry in digital books with web tools and apps like Storybird and LittleBirdTales
  
• evaluate poetry with the Voicethread web tool and IOS app.
• use this heart shaped word cloud tool to share what they love about the subject matter.
• view animated text poetry like Television is a Drug then create their own animated text poetry presentations with multimedia tools like Powtoon, Thinglink Video, 30 Hands, Tell Me About This (IOS) and Narrable (IOS).
• create talking avatars to recite their poetry with Adobe Voice, Yakit for Kids, Tellagami, and Voki.
• create sonnets with the Poetry Engine, an online interactive.
• create their own magnetic poetry with these themed sets (mustache, nature, geek, love and poet).

Task: 

Submit a poem that displays your knowledge and understanding of descriptive writing that includes figurative language and imagery.  You should be using new media tools to develop your poem.

Submission: 

Use the "3.4 Descriptive Writing" link on the main page of this section of the course to upload your assignment to your teacher for marking.