Found Poem Project

Now that you have read The Great Gatsby you are to compose a found poem using quotes and passages from the book. The theme of your poem may be about any of the following: love lost, love sought, dreams shattered, optimism vs. realism, Gatsby’s pursuit of his dream and that endeavor’s consequences, living in the past or trying to repeat the past.

For more specifics about the poem, refer to your assignment handouts from class.

On Monday and Tuesday we will be in the computer lab creating the second phase of this project. You will use the poem to create a movie in PowerPoint. Here is a sample project from last year to clarify what I mean...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EtLqPSV79w&list=PL420262B06F5107E1&index=7&feature=plpp_video

You will need to bring in a flash drive with a song file you want to use for your soundtrack.

You may wish to start finding images now for your slides and also save them on the flash drive. This is not imperative as you will also have time to find images in the computer lab on Monday and Tuesday.

I will distribute a handout on Monday outlining how to incorporate music in a PowerPoint slideshow.

For those of you who are interested in designing your movie an alternative platform go for it. Just know that you must have your entire poem, images, and music in the final product, composed in such a way that the theme of your poem is given greater depth than what is conveyed in black and white. Also, if you choose this route, you must be very confident in your skills as I will not have time to troubleshoot major glitches with you (sometime simplicity is the smarter option).

Please feel free to begin threads and post responses here about saving song files, etc. I will check in periodically to offer support.