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 * Standards Addressed**:
 * //Standard 3:// Students will make oral presentations that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and the information conveyed
 * //Standard 4:// Students will understand and acquire new vocabulary and use it correctly in reading and writing.
 * //Standard 6//: Students will describe, analyze and use appropriately formal and informal English.
 * //Standard 11//: Students will identify, analyze and apply knowledge of theme in a literary work and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
 * //Standard 15//: Students will identify, and analyze how an author's words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood and set tone, and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
 * //Standard 27//: Students will design and create coherent media productions (audio, video, television, multimedia, Internet, emerging technologies), with a clear controlling idea, adaquate detail, and appropriate consideration of audience, purpose and medium.

Students will be able to identify author's theme and purpose. Students will create a 30 second visual found poem of a short story using words from the story, found images, and music that is appropriate to the author's purpose. Students will compose a one-paragraph artist statement explaining their choices. Students will compose a MLA style Works Cited Page using Easy Bib.
 * Objective**:

Students will create: -A 30 second visual found poem of a short story using words, images and music using Animoto. -An artist's statement -A Works Cited Page for the video using Easybib
 * Product**:

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 * Process**:
 * After reading and discussing Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, students view sample visual found poem.
 * Students should be instructed on themes, purpose, symbolism, and other literary terms and devices in previous lessons.
 * Teacher will ask students: "Is this video a good representation of Poe's short story? Why/Why not?"
 * Teacher will then go through the video frame by frame and instruct students how to compose their own video.
 * Teacher will ask: "How does each image connect to the author's theme and purpose?"
 * The final product will represent the overall theme and purpose of the short story.
 * Students will produce a one-paragraph artist's statement explaining their piece.
 * Students will view Easybib demonstration.
 * Students will create their own works cited page (MLA) for their video.
 * Rubric:**


 * Sample Visual Found Poem** for //Masque of the Red Death//

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 * EasyBib.com Tutorial Screencast**


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 * Sample Works Cited:**

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 * Rubric:**
 * Ingrated Video & Audio Reflection of Story and its Themes
 * Project reflects facility with using visual and auditory technologies as well as demonstrating complete understanding of story's theme and literary devices
 * Project reflects understanding of using visual and auditory technologies and demonstrates understanding of story's theme and literary devices
 * Project reflects some understanding of using visual and auditory technologies and demonstrates some understanding of story and its theme
 * Project reflects limited understanding of using visual and auditory technologies and demonstrates little to no understanding of story's theme and literary devices
 * Artist Statement
 * reflects understanding of Story and its Theme
 * Artist Statement reflects complete and thorough understanding of story and its theme
 * Artist Statement reflects understanding of story and its theme
 * Artist Statement reflects marginal understanding of story and its theme
 * Artist Statement reflects almost no understanding of story and its theme
 * Word Choice/Diction (10)
 * Composition of found poem uses and demonstrates elevated and sophisticated diction and word choice
 * Composition of poem uses and demonstrates appropriate levels of diction and word choice
 * Composition of poem uses and demonstrates marginal levels of diction and word choice
 * Composition of poem uses and demonstrates low levels of diction and word choice

25% 10%
 * Correctly Cited Works Cited Page (created using EasyBib)
 * Works Cited page is precisely cited using the EasyBib organizational tool
 * Works Cited is cited mostly correctly using the EasyBib organizational tool
 * Works Cited page is somewhat flawed in citation and does not effectively use EasyBib organizational tool
 * Works Cited page is very flawed in citation and fails to use EasyBib organizational tool
 * Conventions and Mechanics (10)
 * Conventions and mechanics are executed correctly throughout poem
 * Conventions and mechanics are executed with a few errors
 * Conventions and mechanics are executed with errors but none that take away from the presentation overall
 * Errors in mechanics and conventions take away from overall presentation

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