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Halloween Poetry Project

Project Description

Choose a theme appropriate poem and create a PowerPoint presentation that times the lines of the poem and reinforces the theme or style of the poem, including examples of at least three poetry terms and conventions. Narration of the poem will be recorded by the creator to be used in the presentation.

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Guide to MLA formatting

Rubric

Further online resources:

Poetry sources

Halloween poems (About.com)
Vintage Halloween poems
Victorian Halloween.com
Free Halloween poems
Poetry.com

Poetry Terms and Resources

Glossary of Poetry Terms
Glossary of Poetic Terms
  Entire glossary version

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Elements to include:

  1. Complete text of the poem (Poem must be at least four stanzas in length.)
  2. Recorded narration of the text
  3. Accompaning and representative graphics and animations
  4. Use sound and music when appropriate
  5. Evidence of two literary conventions used in the poem
     (In other words, the graphics and animation used help describe a type of poem or literary conventions used in the poem.)
  6. A slide about the author of the poem
  7. A Works Cited slide (MLA format) using at least three sources (including poetry conventions research)
     
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