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Today you're going to be researching some Internet sites containing
information about transatlantic crossings (which means "across the
Atlantic") in the 1800s. Then you are going to use some of the new
information you have learned, and some of your ideas based on your
previous reading and experience to write the first draft of a poem.
Please follow the directions below carefully!
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Poem Example:
Sea Fever
I MUST down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
By John Masefield (1878-1967).
| 1. Leave Internet Explorer open and Open a blank
Microsoft Word document. Please type your name, date and period number
on the top of the new document. You can click back and forth between
Word and Internet Explorer on the work tray at the bottom of the screen
to do your research, note taking, and drafting of your poem.
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| 2. On Internet Explorer, read the article at the site
listed here, “Sailing the Ocean Blue,” "Across the Great Divide." http://www.plimsoll.org/OnTheLine/TransatlanticTravel/SailingTheOceanBlue/default.asp
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| 3. Number and
list six facts from the article
“Sailing the Ocean Blue” on your MSWord document. 3A. Save this
document to your network drive, file name “Transatlantic Crossing
Your Last Name.” Make sure you label your notes; use the title of each article at the top of each section of facts.
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| 4. On Internet Explorer, the same page as
above #2, read another article from the top of the page, "There and
Back Again."
Type the title on your document.
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| 5. Number and
list six facts from that article on your word document. Save again to ensure you don’t
lose any information.
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| 6. Go to Google.com
http://www.google.com , click on “Images” then type in the search
box, “tall ships.” View some of the four and five-masted ships pictured
here. Choose one to open all the way, and "save picture as" to
your network drive.
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| 7. Review the figurative use of “metaphor” at this
“About” site:
http://teenwriting.about.com/library/glossary/bldef-metaphor.htm
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| 8. Now type the FIRST DRAFT of a poem about crossing
the Atlantic on a tall masted ship (continue same document with research
notes). Use the background information you have learned from your
research today, and from your reading of the True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle or Lord Kirkle's Money. Please use at least one metaphor in your poem. Make sure you click save again, to save your work to your school network folder. Your poem should be at least 10 lines long, with a minimum of two stanzas (poetic paragraphs).
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| 9. Please print your document article notes and the rough draft of your poem when you are finished. |
08/29/2011
melissa.baker@lposd.org
