Poetry Across the Curriculum: Making Connections with Hypertext

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Poetry Across the CurriculumMaking Connections
with Hypertext

• Deep Run High School

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What is Hypertext Poetry?

• Hyperlinks 21st Century annotation tool
• The Machine is us/ing
• Allow you to make connections
• Think of it as Wikipedia-esq
• This calls for an example!

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How does it work?Eating the hypertext elephant
1. Annotate
3. Cross curricular research
7. Presentations Feedback
6. Revise
2. Preliminary research
4. Learn how it works
5. Create
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Preliminary Research

• Use the databases and other links from the
  project guide to find
• A biography of your poet
• some simple literary criticism on your poem/poet.
  
• After you skim this information
• makes notes in the Word document you started in
  step 1
• Use Noodle Tools to create citations for the
  sources you plan to use
• Formulate some more specific questions about what
  else you need to know.

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Create

• Insert your poem into Power Point (this may take
  several slides)
• Transfer your research from the Word document
  into PowerPoint.
• Create hyperlinks from words and phrases in the
  poem, to the slides with your research
• Dont forget to include
• Parenthetical citations
• A Back button on each info slide
• Works cited page
• If you are worried about plagiarism, submit your
  notes to Turnitin.com, before you transfer your
  work into PowerPoint

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Revise

• Youre finished! But, not really!
• Find someone to look over your Power Point
  (librarian, teacher, parent, friend). Ask them to
  make sure
• Your links work
• All of the information you give makes sense
• You have included parenthetical citations
• Your works cited page is correct

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Annotate

• Insert a copy of your poem into a Word document
• Read the poem carefully and make notes on the
  rhythm, rhyme scheme, meter, metaphor, hyperbole,
  imagery, tone etc.
• Think about the meaning of the poem and jot down
  ideas. Make note of words or phrases you think
  may have historical meaning.
• Jot down questions about what you need to know
  next.

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Cross-Curricular Research

• Use the resources on the project guide to begin
  some general research about the time period in
  which your poem was written
• When you uncover some specific connections,
  research these indepth.
• This tends to be Mouse Cookie research You
  might search for awhile without finding anything,
  but once you make one connection, that tends to
  lead you to another and another.
• As you find information, make notes in your Word
  document, and cite your sources using Noodle
  Tools

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Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique landWho said
Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the
desert. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a
shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled
lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its
sculptor well those passions readWhich yet
survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The
hand that mocked them, and the heart that
fedAnd on the pedestal these words appear"My
name is Ozymandias, king of kingsLook on my
works, ye Mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside
remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck,
boundless and bareThe lone and level sands
stretch far away.  
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Literary
Historical
Scientific
Artistic
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