Wikispace+Creation+Assignment

Wiki Assignment Instructions

Goal Your assignment will be to create your own wikispace that explains poetic devices and showcases your original work.

Rationale You are creating a wikispace that will demonstrate an understanding of each of the following poetic devices: alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, imagery, irony, metaphor, mood, personification, and symbolism. Additionally, inclusion of your own poetry will show an application of what you have learned.

Common Core Standards W8.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

 W8.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

W8.5 With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.  W8.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

Procedure
 * 1) Log in to Wikispaces.com. I have already created a username and password for you to join my wikispace. These will be issued in class. Your username is your first name followed by the letters ‘hus’ (standing for Hartford University School). Your password was randomly generated. Keep it somewhere safe. You will need to be responsible for remembering it.
 * 2) Take a close look at your dashboard. You should see that you are already a member of the Writer’s Colony. You should also notice a Create a New Wiki button. Click it.
 * 3) Give your wiki a name. It should be your first name with the word poetry (for example: Billypoetry), no spaces. Then, click the protected button – this is extremely important for our web safety. In the drop-down menu, select K-12 Education, and finally, click Create.
 * 4) Next, you will create a link to your wiki from the Student Portfolio page on the Writer’s Colony wiki. In this way, we are all connected and can view each other’s process and progress. We will do this in class with my guidance to help eliminate mistakes.
 * 5) Once your link is created, we will go over the assignment expectations and rubric in class.
 * 6) Finally, experiment with your wiki so that you are comfortable creating a space that illustrates the expectations of the assignment. Clicking Edit at the top right corner of a page will bring up the text editor. This allows you to customize the content. Don't forget to click Save after any changes you make!