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Hyper Students: Hyper Poetry Lesson for AP Literature Diane Tinucci June, 2000 Overview-The Advanced Placement Literature focus is to analyze how method supports message. How the engineering of the literature contributed to its intended purpose is the subject of discussion and essay throughout the course. In Hyper Students: Hyper Poetry, AP students do what they have been doing all year, noting how the various stylistic devices used within a poem help create and support its author's attitude, but in an engaging, higher-tech way. Objectives: Students will identify basic stylistic devices present in an assigned poem. Students will comment on possible author intention in including stylistic devices in an assigned poem. Students will enhance personal understanding through peer collaboration. Students will demonstrate understanding of concept of "hypertext" Students will gain facility in basic web page construction using Microsoft Word '97. Materials: Assigned Poem Student Instruction Sheet Access To Computers Time: 6 man hours per student Procedure: See student handout below:   Hyper Students: Hyper Poetry You have experienced "Hypermandias" and now appreciate the power of hypertext to analyze and enrich poetry study. Now it is your turn to choose a poem, immerse yourself in it and create a hypertexted version of it to share with your classmates. WHO: For this assignment, choose to work in a group of from two to five people. The number of people in the group will determine the length of the poem you must choose to explore. Roughly, each person "costs out" at "eightish" lines. Yes, two people may do a sonnet. I will approve the poem your group works with, but this will help you decide how you want to work. WHAT: You will study your chosen poem and address the following required and flexible issues listed below. Using web page coding or (much easier) Microsoft Word '97 saved as HTML, you will produce a web page containing your poem with links leading to the information you have found or produced clarifying it. Of course, I will teach you the computer skills you will need to know. Use "Hypermandias" as a guide WHAT2: Links within and surrounding your poem must lead to the following information. Issues in bold type must be created by you rather than found out on the Internet and linked to. The number following each category represents the number of links that must relate to that category, yet that number is flexible according to the analysis of your specific poem. Some of the links will connect to Internet sites containing relevant information; some of the links will connect to commentary you will write. REQUIRED: Biographical information on author (2 ­ life and works) Stylistic devices Diction Definitions of unusual words (3-denotation; 3-connotation/commentary) Commentary related to significant words or phrases Commentary related to title significance Figurative language Definition Clarification/commentary of significant figures (Don't forget examples of allusions!) Image (1) Commentary related to significant images Detail (1) Commentary related to significant details Tone (2) Commentary (more extensive, possibly a paragraph) noting at least two complementary tones.   For the following devices, two links addressing two of the three issues: Point of View Syntax Organization   Two additional links must be offered relating to the stylistic devices Poetic form or type: (sonnet, blank verse, ballad, epic, elegy, ode, epigraph, etc.) (1) Definition Commentary (may be combined with syntax and/or organization commentary) Prosody/ Sound Devices (2) Definition Commentary Thought questions: (1 link-at least three questions) FLEXIBLE: (3 of the following or related concepts) Comparison / contrast to related works Background / motivation for writing Historical context Critical articles Images of supportive material Audio reading Helpful Internet Resources Reference collection including dictionaries http://www.libraryspot.com Literary term and rhetorical device collection http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/Harris/rhetform.html Literary Resources http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/kckpl/first.html http://www.umsl.edu/~gryan/wwt.litonline.html

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