In the computer lab, students will use ClarisWorks slide show or other software such as PowerPoint to create a presentation of their selected poems. They will use the graphics library to insert for visual imagery. In English class, students will have viewed the documentary Anne Frank Remembered and read the play The Diary of Anne Frank. As a tribute to Anne's memory, students will type their original poems and then visit the Anne Frank web site. Students will learn about Japanese haiku poetry, write and illustrate their own haiku poem, and share them with the class.
Students then justify their conclusions by creating spreadsheets and generating graphs of the data.
Finally, students individually write a short editorial which incorporates a graph and tells why their player is a hero based on overall achievement as well as statistics. Shakespeare Analysis Library, Classroom, Computer Lab, Scanner, ClarisWorks, Poetry book of Shakespeare Sonnets, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Internet This lesson should capitalize on the recent interest in the Bard. When the young Shakespeare spots his Viola in the recent movie, Shakespeare in Love, he is inspired to write a sonnet. The sonnet is one of the favorite lyrical forms of poetry during the last five centuries. The students will focus on the Shakespearian sonnet as a form and analyze the sonnet in terms of structure, the particular rhyme scheme of the quatrains and the rhyming couplet, the rhythm of iambic pentameter, as well as any figurative language.