Handout Lio Dag maandag 26 maart 2012
Workshop: The Flipping Literature Class
Janneke Geursen, VU
Louise Taylor, ILS RU
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Two Scavengers in a Truck
Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes
At the stoplight waiting for the light
nine a.m. downtown San Francisco
a bright yellow garbage truck
with two garbagemen in red plastic blazers
standing on the back stoop
one on each side hanging on
and looking down into
an elegant open Mercedes
with an elegant couple in it
The man
In a hip three-piece linen suit
with shoulder-length blond hair & sunglasses
The young blond woman so casually coifed
with a short skirt and colored stockings
on the way to his architect’s office
And the two scavengers up since four a.m.
grungy from their route
on the way home
The older of the two with grey iron hair
and hunched back
looking down like some
Gargoyle Quasimodo
And the younger of the two
also with sunglasses & long hair
about the same age as the Mercedes driver
And both scavengers gazing down
As from a great distance
At the cool couple
as if they were watching some odourless TV ad
in which everything is always possible
And the very red light for an instant
holding all four close together
as if anything at all were possible
Between them
Across that small gulf
in the high seas
of this democracy
(Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
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Task 1 Reader Response Approach
Bleich, David. Subjective Criticism. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1978
1.
What is going on?
(paraphrase)
2.
What feeling does the poem evoke?
(affective response)
3.
What do you associate it with?
(associative response)
4.
On what element do you base your interpretation?
(active paragraph/key paragraph)
Task 2
Circle all words related to the garbage men
Underline all words used to describe the couple in the car.
Task 3
The difference between each pair is strong. The poet uses words that make the garbage
men seem similar to their truck and the couple seems similar to their car.
Use the following chart to make a list of these words.
Words connecting garbagemen to truck
Words connecting couple to car
Task 4
Find the quote that tells us that
- the man in the car is both formally smart and casual
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the life of the older garbage man has been tough
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the woman in the car has an expensive appearance or casualness
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there is a superficial similarity between the two young men
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Task 5
What would I ask my pupils to do after watching the taped discussion?
Would you ask them to do this at home or in class?
Could they have a similar discussion themselves? (at home or in class?)
Task 6
Instructions:
Choose one of the following assignments. When you have done, upload your work onto the
following website: http://flippingclass.edublogs.org/students-work/
1) Informative video = create an informative video to help your pupils with analysing
the poem (e.g. how can you tell it’s American, in which period was it written, what is
the literary context of the piece)
I. Go to www.brainshark.com and click on the button “try it for free”.
II. Log in and click on “upload content”.
III. Upload the poem (as a word document or powerpoint) and narrate your story.
2) Interview = record yourself interviewing one of the characters from the poem to
demonstrate your knowledge of the context of this poem.
I. Go to http://voicethread.com/
II. Register via the link in the top right hand corner
III. Click on “Create”
IV. Film yourself using the webcam interviewing one of the main characters in the
poem.
V. You can upload the link to your voicethread on the flipping class site and ask
participants to leave comments.
3) Pronunciation = demonstrate your skills in pronunciation and intonation using
soundcloud.
I. Go to http://soundcloud.com/ and sign up
II. Click on the “Upload and share” button at the top of the screen.
III. Click on the “record” button and record yourself reading the poem.
IV. When finished, click on “upload your recording”
V. You can then add images, text, tags, etc.
VI. Click on “save”
VII. You can then email, twitter or upload the link and ask participants to give you
feedback on your pronunciation. (here’s an example: http://soundcloud.com/louisetaylor-1/2-scavengers-louise)
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Literary analysis = demonstrate your skills of literary analysis using soundcloud.
Go to http://soundcloud.com/ and sign up
Click on the “Upload and share” button at the top of the screen.
Click on the “record” button and record your analysis of and questions on the poem.
When finished, click on “upload your recording”
You can then add images, text, tags, etc.
Click on “save”
You can then email, twitter or upload the link and ask participants to answer your
questions.
5) News flash = read the poem as if it were a news item or summarise the poem as if it
were a news item.
I. Go to http://goanimate.com/ and sign up.
II. Click on the button in the top right hand corner “make a video”
III. Then click on “make a short video” – election 2012
IV. Click on “go”
V. Scroll right to the “news room” option
VI. Click on “next” and choose your candidates
VII. Then record yourself reading the poem as if it were a news item or providing your
audience with a summary. .
VIII. You can choose to read half the poem and have a second character read the second
half – if you type in the text. (for an example, see here:
http://goanimate.com/videos/0BOo6PLdfAxw?utm_source=linkshare)
IX. When finished, publish your film to go-animate and upload the link to the flipping
class site.
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