Shapes of poetry

Here is a nice site that can turn your writing texts into  shapes, you can have spirals, waves, mazes and banners, here are some examples:

http://www.festisite.com/text-layout/#2,0

Reading in a new way

What is Phylotaxis?
The term Phyllotaxis refers to the patterns on plants formed by the arrangement of repeated biological units. In nearly all cases, the Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio occur in these arrangements. Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature.                                                                                       This image of a plant is an example of Phylotaxis in nature
   

Phylotaxis  is  also a new site, we read in the description that it is  an exploration of the space where science meets culture. If you want a completely new way to choose and read articles visit the site, you will find lots of "Seeds"representing the perfect synthesis of science and culture, agitate them and then pick a seed and ......Have a good read! 
                                   
                                    Phylotaxis

Shaping Emotions

 How many emotions do you have?                  This and other answers in this interesting article on the web. Here is the link

 Classification of Emotions

 Can you give a shape to your emotions?

How would you represent JOY?

What about SURPRISE?

And TERROR?

Philosophy in shapes

Philosophy  in geometrical shapes

Is it possible to explain philosophical concepts through geometrical shapes? According to a famous designer named Genis Carreras  it is. Visit the site to know more.http://www.geniscarreras.com/philosophy.html

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Literary genres

A simple map created by E. La Torre on the tool http://www.text2mindmap.com/

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http://mrsmarburg.wikispaces.com/file/view/figures_of_speech.png/215464492/figures_of_speech.png

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http://faithbibleministries.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/figures-of-speech-a-brief-introduction/

IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/lyn/level-b/figures-of-speech-oxymoron/

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/lyn/level-b/figures-of-speech-hyperbole/

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/lyn/level-b/figures-of-speech-metaphor/

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/lyn/level-b/figures-of-speech-simile/

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Playing Games

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The Big Triangle (COMICS)

In Scott McCloud’s book "Understanding Comics"   you will find his observations about what comics are and as we are interested in shapes to convey meanings and ideas here is the author's  BIG TRIANGLE -
The link is a ppt with the author's explanations. 

http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/triangle/index.html

Games

What is Graphic English?

When English words are presented in a certain position or picture-like way that express a message we talk about G. E.

example:  time time =means time after time

time time	I           I     bag                    bag	DICTI -------------------------------                ARY
BUS         BUS	man            -------------                board

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JOBS IN A SQUARE 

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Shaping yourself!!!!

• WORD SEARCH MAKER
• PUZZLEMAKER
• PUZZLECREATOR

http://www.addictinggames.com/funny-games/theidiottest.jsp

Literature-Class5

LITERATURE Romantic Age Vincenzo Chianese-E. La Torre William Wordsworth  http://www.classtools.net/widgets/diamond9_7/FXIkQ.htm ........................................................... Click here for larger version

The Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
This activity was developed by Val Blackburn at SEAL, match the cards to the text on the grid, or find pairs of cards.
http://www.collaborativelearning.org/daffodils.pdf

Some students' works

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The circularity of a tale-www.languagegarden.com

Click here for larger version

Literary_Devices_used_in_a_Lyrical_Ballad_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner_by_Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge

http://www.slideshare.net/shreyarao54379/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-43871783

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When we two parted (Lord Byron)
Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSrgAs7CXgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poBemXgSQs
Lord Byron life and work

Using round shapes to tell stories

Telling a story, elements of a story:
http://www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/GO/GO_pdf/story_organzier.pdf

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Modernism

Read and then complete the G.O.

Reading

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab//hfl0255.html

Online interactive G. O.
http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=420&title=

 G.O. - PDF

Modernist Poetry

Freytag’s Pyramid- Story analysis

Freytag’s Pyramid

Freytag proposed a graphic form for the analysis of a plot  known as Freytag’s Pyramid(Freytag’s Pyramid is a modification of Aristotle’s structure that in his book Poetics stated that the unified plot structure of a drama is formed like a basic triangle), he described  five distinct sections or acts :  exposition; rising action; climax, falling action, denouement.
Freytag ha proposto una forma grafica per l'analisi della trama, conosciuta come la piramide di Freytag, egli ha descritto cinque distinte sezioni o atti.

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/plot-structure-literary-elements-904.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/plot-diagram/
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How to build a literature pyramid

http://www.fayette.k12.il.us/isbe/English-LangArts/stageF/engla2AF.pdf

Interesting articles

Interesting articles
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/10/studentnews/sn-content-fri/index.html

• Reading in a Whole New Way

• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
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• Engage me or enrage me(Mark Prensky)
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• http://www.tdmagazine.itd.cnr.it/files/pdfarticles/PDF50/2_Prensky.pdf