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 * 1st Period**

Sophie Grabiec  “When I Heard the Leanr’d Astronomer” written by Walt Whitman in 1865 was published as a part of //Leaves of Grass//. This particular poem shows the gradual switch of Whitman’s poetry topics from the civil war on to other subject matters. The poem is a free verse, but does have some patterns that Whitman incorporated. The underlying theme of the poem is that one does not need to know the scientific entirety of a subject in order to appreciate it. The storyline of the poem includes a narrator sitting in a lecture hall and quickly getting bored with the graphs and facts about the stars that the professor is lecturing about. Not long after becoming tired and sick, the narrator leaves the lecture in order to wander by himself, and there, he truly appreciates the stars for their beauty rather than for the knowledge and facts.

Hunter Langel  I did my animation project on Robert Frost's "The Telephone." This poem is essentially about a boy who is trying to find the person who called him. When a person first reads this poem, they may be slightly confused on what the meaning of the poem is. I took the words literally and did my animation on what the poem was saying. However, beneath this poem, the boy is receiving a call from God. This poem is a story about his spiritual relationship. I personally chose this poem, because I sang this a few years ago at District Chorus. While it appears happy and sounds light, a deeper and more profound meaning lies beneath the oddity of the flower and the bee. I interpreted the poem in an easy way to incorporate the animation.

Patrick O'Toole  Nothing Gold Can Stay was written by Robert Frost. It is a poem about how good things can’t stay forever. The word gold in this poem represents “good things”. It talks about how the gold things can’t stay gold forever in life. It mentions how gold things, or “good things” give way to different color leafs. These new leafs are not gold and it saddens people.

Jaden Brajkovich  Acquainted with the night by Robert Frost.I selected the poem I did because I thought fourteen line sonnet would be perfect for the presentation. It was easy to make the dark backgrounds to blend with the words of the poem as well.The poem is about being sad after a rough day and being able to be acquitted with the night and the darkness around you. I like the poem because it expresses how understanding a city in the dark requires one to have a rough day. The only way to be acquainted with the night is too have had a bad day, then you can understand the darkness of the city present around you.

Aaron Filip  In Robert Frost’s poem "The Road Not Taken", he is referring to the pathways in life. You can take the more commonly traveled road, or the harder less traveled road. After pondering his options for a while he chose the path that was grassy and wanted wear. He later reflects on that decision and wants to see where the other will lead to but knows that path leads on to path and doubts if he will ever come back. It is like life in that your choices make your future, there is no time for going back to redo something. You just have to stick with it and find another way out. Overall he is happy with the road he chose through the last couple lines of the poem. He believes it is that choice that has made all the difference. I completed the project using a literal standpoint with some symbolism throughout the video as represented at the end with the family.

Jessica Tayman  sinc feeling is first by E. E. Cummings. I chose this poem because to me the poem seemed to have a lot of emotion behind it. I was able to pick certain graphics that helped to convey what I thought the poem was giving out emotionally. And the music in the presentation also helps to feel those emotions that the E. E. Cummings is trying to convey. The poem is about lost, love and death between a two people. I liked this poem because it gave off raw emotion and I was drawn to it.

Thaddeus Rhinehart  "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is the poem I chose. I chose it because of it's deep symbolism and strong representation of the struggle to conform and adhere to society's strict 'norms.' I took a rather simple and general approach in animating the poem, using the poem's content as examples, props, and animations, and not using the metaphorical and symbolical connotations that the poem carries. I found the poem easy to connect and portray using PowToon, but found myself getting over invested and restarting with attempts to simplify. Due to the deep symbolism of the poem, there were many ways to represent the poem in the animation/presentation.

Melissa Jones  In 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' by William Wordsworth used wild daffodils to symbolize any form of happiness the speaker may have despite his solemn mood. The daffodils, that are "fluttering and dancing in the breeze", are personified as people dancing despite most of his time alone. Both the daffodils and any form of dancing are symbols of happiness because the speaker includes how the waves dance -- yet the daffodils out-do them -- and in the end how his heart dances. When I created my PowToon, I used more of a literal approach but it had a deeper meaner while reading it.

Hailey Weller  “A Dream Pang”, written by Robert Frost, shows the human inability to accept assistance in time of great need. An emotional person is attempting to find his way and he expresses the short amount of time of opportunity given to people. This man suffers great pain from not answering the lovers call, and notes that lovers will not wait around forever. There is only a limited amount of time allotted to prove to someone that you love them before it disappears. Additionally, this poem had elements of being in a dream, and this look into the narrator’s subconscious reveals the fear of losing a lover. I chose this poem because Robert Frost is very well-known and this particular poem stuck out to me.

Michaela Hockenberry

 "Path we Persue," by Mark Vander Poppen, discusses the uncertainty and difficulty of life, along with the human spirit of perseverance and hard work. Poppen emphasizes the need for people to have faith in themselves and to press forward, disregarding all negativity. Symbolism in this poem exists in that life is portrayed metaphorically as a journey, a path, a dream, etc. The "sun" also represents good times, a breakthrough, or victory. My powtoon focuses on the vivid imagery in the poem and the inspirational messages within that imagery.

Misty VanHorn

 "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar illustrates the act of hiding ones emotions from those around them, more specifically the slaves to their owners to not give slave owners the pleasure of seeing their slaves defeated, or hurt. This poem in today's society is also more personal in a sense that people today still feel as if they need to put on a certain front for people, which reasons why I chose this poem. I decorated my powtoon in a more literal sense, and tried to give it an eerie vibe because I felt as if the poem itself was more dark and personal. Masks were scattered throughout my powtoon, much like the line " We wear the mask" was scattered throughout the poem, so the powtoon and poem lined up in a sense with repetition. The mask itself is a symbol of the entire poem, and represents the front that people put on daily in order to keep to themselves, and hide how they really feel.

Cody Lebo  “The Reader” is about a person who is reading a book. The book has boring pages and is hard to read. However the reader cannot see anything on the pages, only the stars of the heavens above. Alivia Burris

 "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost is a poem that talks about the end of the world. However, fire and ice are not the literal reasons that he says will destroy the world. The fire and ice are used as symbols to signify human desire and hatred and the dangers of these two aspects of everyday life.

Tristan Kemble  I picked "I am the Mob," since it was a simple poem with a deeper meaning. It represent the potential and flaws of people when they are united, as if it causes us to all be one. It acknowledges our shames and accomplishments similarly, with some use of symbolism. It claims all human race as the entire cause of both, giving credit to the good and calling out the bad.


 * 6th Period**

 The poem Dark House by Sylvia Plath is about her pregnancy. I used this poem because it had a lot of different symbolism that was pretty easy to pick out and animate. Also, Plath is known for very dark and deep meaning poems, and I enjoy reading her poems so I decided to use one that I had read one time before. She refers to the fetus and her womb, and how she reacts to the symptoms of her pregnancy -- her physical feelings from the fetus, her size, the food cravings, etc. This poem is part of her "Poem for a Birthday" series which also include another poem, "Who", that is also about her pregnancy. The character is experiencing motherhood, but is obsessed with the darkness and wants to keep on building the house and make it bigger (or bring death closer).
 * Caitlyn Barnes**

<iframe width="480" height="311" src="http://www.powtoon.com/embed/fRZIhs980TX/" frameborder="0"> The poem To Jennie by Mark Twain is about heartbreak and heartbreak is one of the easiest things to animate. The poem starts out by saying goodbye and then it goes into what one of the characters is thinking. The character thinks about how the other person is always going to be in their heart and they will never forget the memories that they have created together. It then ends with the words Good Bye S. L. C., i really do not understand the meaning of the S. L. C. but it must be important or else Twain would not have put it their. The animations are few but they really show what is happening to the characters and the animations slowly build into more complex animations.
 * Katie Geyer**

me width="480" height="311" src="http://www.powtoon.com/embed/eyPO9E34siY/" frameborder="0"></iframe I used this poem because it caught my attention and seemed like it would be easy to animate. This poem is about dawn. George Hitchcock describes how it looks and seems as they wait for dawn and how the town is. I chose the animations so they would help people to imagine how Hitchcock was describing the town at this time. For example in the beginning he says that the clouds were rising so I had clouds pop up in the video. I would read the poem and then i would add what I thought the poem was describing.
 * Dena Fickes**

<iframe width="480" height="311" src="http://www.powtoon.com/embed/dPOgbI0f0xf/" frameborder="0"> media type="custom" key="27300392" A dream within a dream is about a man who parts from his lover and agrees that his life has been a dream. He says that everything is "but a dream within a dream." In the second stanza, the setting is on a beach and he is holding sand, but cannot stop it from flowing out of his hand. The sand symbolizes a hourglass which represents the passage of time. "All that we see or seem" is combination of both aspects of reality, external (see) and internal (seem). The narrator has no perception what's reality and what's not by following up with, "A Dream Within A Dream."
 * Jacob Bartels**

<iframe width="480" height="311" src="http://www.powtoon.com/embed/g2fG5eo34ZS/" frameborder="0"> I chose to use this poem for my pow toon because drugs can influence your life in many ways and most of the time it is a bad influence. This villanelle is written by two very famous poets that go by the names Noah Schaeffer and Adam Flanders and I think it is their best work. The animations I chose to use are mainly what can happen, for example I used a gravestone and a ghost because people can die if they abuse drugs.
 * Noah Schaeffer**

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 * Adam Flanders**: Stopping by Woods On A Snowy Evening, By Robert Frost. - In this poem, the narrator is on a long journey home. He stops to admire the woods filling up with snow as dusk settles. He loves how the woods are dark, deep, and mysterious. Later, he reminds himself that he has other responsibilities and returns on his journey home. I chose this because I too love the outdoors and the snow, and I rarely have time to really enjoy them, like the narrator.

Trevan Dorman <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This limerick poem is basically describing his brand new Michael Jordan shoes. He is saying the shoes are the best shoes he has ever had. By him saying “I was never the best on the team” He could not make a jump shot or any kind of shot. All he could do is attack the rim. He could not jump so high with anything but those shoes. I love talking about shoes and basketball so that is why I like my shoes. <iframe width="640" height="401" src="http://www.powtoon.com/embed/f5OEKSXfSjK/" frameborder="0">

<iframe width="480" height="311" src="http://www.powtoon.com/embed/fy6vCeft5gi/" frameborder="0"> I chose to do my own poem, Toast for many different reasons. The main reason, is because there is a song by Weird Al, cause Toast as well, and all of field hockey season, that was our motto. When we got a goal or before we went out on the field we would yell “yeah toast”. I know that my poem is mainly about eating toast, but to me there is more of a meaning behind the word toast. Finally, toast may me one thing to some, but it means something completely different to me
 * Jadyn Temple**

This limerick is about high school football and just what some players want to accomplish. Also for the love of the game to them about winning a state championship and how it is strictly business when playing football. I picked this limerick because i love the game of football and it is my dream to win a state championship for Newport. But football is like my life and i want to continue to play it no matter what. <iframe width="480" height="311" src="http://www.powtoon.com/embed/bQlk8FGwRMs/" frameborder="0">
 * Dalton Klinger**

This poem is about the speaker being to busy for death and "Death" shows civility to the speaker in taking his time so the speaker can enjoy the ride. When passing the school and the fields the speaker is reminded on what is going to be left behind. When the speaker talks about the house, the speaker is talking about the final resting place, the grave. Then the last stanza is bout how the speaker gets to see eternity. https://www.powtoon.com/show/g8ejTbXubUS/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death/#/
 * Heather Cox**

. I chose alone by Edgar Allan Poe. I chose this poem because it reminds me of myself and it is really easy to relate to. Its about Poe's life and how he grew up with children who he didn't connect with because they didn't have the same experiences as him and he was sad and alone and didn't know why. <iframe width="480" height="311" src="http://www.powtoon.com/embed/brRHu7dNsEf/" frameborder="0">
 * katelyn soder**

I chose the poem "Nature is what we see" by Emily Dickinson because ever since I was a child, I have always been fascinated by nature. Like Emily Dickinson, I too feel that there is so much more to nature than what it really is. Everyone has their own interpretations of what nature is symbolized as, and the impacts that it has on peoples' lives. <iframe width="480" height="311" src="http://www.powtoon.com/embed/ds0bU6Y6P9I/" frameborder="0">
 * Julia Dudley**