Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Powerful Ideas in Tiny Packages

For our Poetry Author Celebration, Portable 2 writers decided to publish in a brand new way! We knew that we wanted our poetry to reach as large an audience as possible, so there were a few steps to our publishing.

First, we created posters to highlight our favorite poems. We spent time making the posters bright and attractive to catch as many eyes as possible, while still spotlighting our important words!

Then, we created a movie of our poems. Please watch it below and leave your comments!

Finally, we put up our poetry posters all over Grand Ridge Elementary. Our intent was to fill our school with our strong words and feelings, to share our love of writing with everyone! Our posters will stay up until our final Author Celebration of the year, when we will take them home along with our writing portfolios.

Enjoy!

*Note: I apologize in advance for the audio. This was our first experiment with the Flip Camera, and upon reflection we probably should have borrowed a microphone from someone!

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

I had a LOT of fun making my poem!

-Anna

Sanjay (Aleya's Dad) said...

Aleya really missed being with you today.
This totally rocks!

Anonymous said...

these poems turned out extremly great except it changed to the next poem before the first one finished a few times... I guess Mrs.Lee has to fix those things but your guys' poems are a win-win!





-Elias

Mrs. Lederman said...

Dear Sparkling Writers,

You have taken poetry to a new level! Your use of video is clever and creative. Thank you for sharing your poetry in this fashion as your narration, thoughtful pictures and specific word choice combine beautifully, showing how talented you all are. Please, keep adding more! :0)

Mrs. Lederman

Cory said...

Good work! mrs.Lee's class.

Cory.Mitchell's brother

Madsion said...

WOW!!!!!!
I didn't notice we wee THAT GOOD!!!!!

Sahar, Elias' Sister said...

Good Job Mrs. Lee's Class! Way to Go! Have fun with your poetry awesomeness!

Anonymous said...

This was absolutely awesome. We enjoyed hearing all of the students' poems. Great job, Mrs. Lee!!!! Lorrie (Drake's mom)

Mrs. Ko said...

You all did amazing work, and showed your thoughtfulness and heart. You made Poetry fun! thank you!

Anonymous said...

that was a great video!! i liked making my poem!!

Anonymous said...

Brilliant!!! I LOVE YOUR POEMS! This is so inspiring, I'm going to do this with my class. Mrs. Lee, my daughter, said she would help me. She's such a good teacher.
Love,
Joan

Emilia said...

I had a fun time making my poem and I had fun doing this unit too memroies.

emilia

Anonymous said...

the units that we've been studying were: Personal Narritives, Essays, Fiction Stories, Literary Essays, Poetry, and Memoirs. All of our units were AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


-Elias

P.S sorry about the exclamation marks.....

Zach said...

Making poems was awesome!We got to use our imagination as much as we want.Poems rock! -Zach