In honor of this month you will find a poem that you like and illustrate it using Inkscape.
1) Spend the first 10-15 minutes of the class period surfing the following poetry sites and reading some of the poems. Try finding a few poems that you like.
- Funny poems written by students:
http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/funny/funny-children-poems.asp
- Poems by Langston Hughes:
http://www.poemhunter.com/langston-hughes/poems/
- Top 500 poets:
http://www.poemhunter.com/p/t/l.asp?a=0&l=Top500&p=1
- Chilrdren's Poetry Archive
http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/poemsHome.do
2) Select one of the poems that you found. Copy and paste your poem and its author to a new Inkscape document or Word document and save it to your Y drive.
3) Illustrate the poem using Inkscape. Be sure to select a different font and use the tools that we learned about this quarter to illustrate your poem.
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