Literary genres

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

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http://cmapspublic2.ihmc.us/rid=1157614317110_1360124214_5497/literary%20genres.cmap?rid=1157614317110_1360124214_5497&partName=htmljpeg

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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

Geometric Poetry

How to create "geometric" poems using online tools ?
Come creare poesie "geometriche usando strumenti online? 
This is an interesting tool: an automatic  square generator, six lines with six words based on Lewis Carrol's style, CLICK AND TRY

SQUARE-POEM-GENERATOR

My Square Poem

I	often	play	Candy Crush	I	curse it
often	hate	wherever	I	saw it	first
play	wherever	stupid	really	such	game
Candy Crush	I	really	feel	imprisoned	in it
I	saw it	such	imprisoned	be kind	free
curse it	first	game	in it	free	me

POEM COLLAGE

Poem Collage is a tool that gives you the opportunity to write your 

own poem and then clicking  on the GENERATE button to obtain 

a series of draggable lines you can rearrange as you want. You can 

also use it to recreate a poem.

POEM COLLAGE

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.