Digital+Story

Rep Your City
It's always been important to represent for one's city - as the Ancient Greeks would attest. Bards and troubadours have been doing this for centuries, using specific words and specific word choices (we in the literary world call that **diction**) to convey tone and mood, and to give people a sense of place and time. In this lesson you will examine how words and pictures, rhythm and lighting, can come together to communicate with readers and speakers.

Standards

 *  [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1] Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
 *  [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.5] Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
 *  [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.3] Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
 *  [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.5] Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
 *  [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.5a] Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context and analyze their role in the text.
 *  [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.5b] Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.
 *  [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.6] Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Materials

 * Step 1: Literary Devices || Step 2: One in 2200 (or so) ||
 * * [[file:Empire State of Mind Lyrics.docx]]
 * [|"Empire State of Mind" Literary Elements Hunt], New York Times
 * [|"Empire State of Mind" Reflection on Edmodo] || * [|One in 8 Million - New York Times]
 * "Where I'm From" Poem
 * [[file:Where I'm From Digital Story Rubric.docx]]
 * [|WeVideo]
 * Microphones/Recording Devices
 * Digital Cameras or Phones
 * YouTube ||

Instructions

 * 1) ===Step 1: Literary Devices===
 * 2) Download and review the lyrics for "Empire State of Mind"
 * 3) Mark up the lyrics with notes, questions, and connections
 * 4) View the accompanying music video. Make notes about the music video on the lyrics.
 * 5) Download the [|"Empire State of Mind" Literary Elements Hunt] from The New York Times website. Define and then find examples of each of the literary elements in "Empire State of Mind". How many elements can you find?
 * 6) Complete the reflection assignment and turn in [|on Edmodo]
 * 7) ===Step 2: One in 2200 (or so)===
 * 8) Jay Z says of the city that there are "eight million stories out there and they're naked." The One in 8 Million project from The New York Times covers some of those stories.
 * 9) Go to the project page and choose one or two of the stories to watch.
 * 10) Consider the way that the narratives and the pictures interact to transform a story. How would these stories be different written? What does the voice of the person speaking add? What do the pictures add to the project?
 * 11) There are 2200 stories at Leesville Road High School, and most of them are naked. In this step, you are going to cover yours by creating and narrating a representative slideshow.
 * 12) Go back to the poem that you wrote for the last assignment (click on the link for a reminder).
 * 13) Consider the things that you discussed in that poem. Use a camera (a digital camera or the camera on an iPhone or Android smart phone will work) to capture images that best represent where you're from.
 * 14) Though you may choose to use a different video editor, I recommend uploading pictures to [|WeVideo] . Once you have the pictures in the order that you'd like, use your poem as the script for the narration.
 * 15) When the video is the way you like it, publish it to the the site that you prefer. You can publish it to WeVideo, YouTube, Google Docs, or even Vimeo. Once it has been published, share it with the class by [|turning in the link to Edmodo].

What Next?
Really, Really, Looooonnnnng Poems.