Standards:

7th Grade ELA, Performance Indicators, Standard 2, Writing:

-Compare and contrast literary elements in more than one genre and/or by more than one author.

ISTE NET:

1. Creativity and InnovationStudents demonstrate creative thinking,

construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:

a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes

b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression

Objective

Student will be able to begin to compare and contrast key literary elements (e.g., symbolism, metaphor and simile, alliteration, personification) in more than one genre and/or by more than one author. Student will be able to begin to develop a digital jump start to demonstrate creative thinking, apply existing knowledge and form original works.

Can you think of an example of repetition in one of the Chronicles of Narnia and Star Wars

movies?

“Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.”

(Langston Hughes)

“It was like a rivulet of hot, molten lava deep within a mountain” (Paterson).

“The fog comes on little cat feet”(Carl Sandburg).

“crossing basketballcourts and no-nettedhoops

“slam-dunking yourself through a thin orangehalo…

“tiptoeing across theclick-clacking glowof bodega lights”(Black Cat, Christopher Myers).

Directions for Digital Jump Start (DJ) Activity• Open the PowerPoint program on your computer.• Open your e-mail from brac1384@plattsburgh.edu • Choose two of the quotes provided, which contain literary elements from different genres, copy and paste them into PowerPoint. (If you are having trouble accessing your e-mail, the quotations may also be found on the back of this page).• Label which literary device(s) you chose.• Add at least one picture to your PowerPoint presentation to illustrate the quotes you chose.• Add a video clip to your PowerPoint presentation to represent the quotes you chose.• Add music or sound to reflect the quote you chose.• For homework, complete the above steps and add two more quotes, pictures, video clips and sounds.

Literary Device Game: Test Your Knowledge!http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/game/play.phtml?dest=Lit_v52.dcr&width=500&height=300&ini=lesson1.ini&height2=296

References:All book cover pictures from www.amazon.com

Movie posters accessed from Google images:http://filmfries.com/wp-content/ uploads/image/the_chronicles_of_narnia _prince_caspian02.jpghttp://img7.xooimage.com/files/s/t/star-wars-950c0.png

Slide 6 movie clip self-recorded.

Slides 7 and 8 from PowerPoint clip art.

Painting of black cat from Black Cat, written and illustrated by Christopher Myers:

Myers, C. Black Cat. Scholastic Press: New York. 1999.