The definition of onomatopoeia is the naming of a thing or action by a vocal
imitation of the sound associated with it (as in buzz, hiss, etc). © 2012 MerriamWebster, Incorporated
Two of the most familiar onomatopoeia poems are Langston Hughes’ “The
Weary Blues” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Below are shorter poems that
were created by students. You will select any TWO of the poems on the following
pages, and using Onomatopeia words, illustrate the story of those two poems.
You will Storyboard the poems and then create two flipbook animations going
along with your storyboards. The number of frames and scenes will depend
upon the poem chosen, so read through them all before deciding. I have also
Storyboard Requirements:
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Your name and class period at the top of each storyboard
The name of the poem being drawn
Animation Requirements:
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You will create two files, filenames will be:
o classper_lastname_firstinit_flippoem1.pptx
o classper_lastname_firstinit_flippoem2.pptx
Characters and Backgrounds for these animations will vary depending
upon which poems were chosen. They can be drawn in Fireworks or
downloaded from the Internet – this will depend on what is needed and
your artistic abilities.
Any downloaded pics for these animations will be downloaded from
http://schools.clipart.com/ (instructions below the poems)
Bibliography for pics used in the animation (instructions below the poems)
(save the bibliography with the filename:
4_lastname_firstinit_poembib.docx)
You should change the “Advance Slide” options so that the slides
automatically change
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The last slide in the animation should be blank – except for your name,
class period, and date.
Mom & Dad Are Home
Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Mom and Dad are home!!
The Game
Clap! Clap!
Stomp! Stomp!
Swish! Swish!
This is the way we get through
Our games.
The crowd shouts,
”Yahoo!”
The ball soars through the air.
Then, bounce, bounce, bounce.
The audience holds its breath.
SWISH!
The ball goes in;
We win!
Camping
Crack! Crack!
The fire crackles under the stars.
Sizzle! Sizzle!
The water sizzles above the fire.
Crunch! Crunch!
The campers crunching on potato chips.
Click! Clack! Click! Clack!
The tent poles clicking and clacking together.
Rustle! Rustle!
As we prepare our sleeping bags to go to sleep.
Chirp! Chirp!
The crickets say, “good-night”.
To Grandma’s We Go
Rumble! Rumble!
The thunder roars.
Drip! Drip!
The rain comes down.
Boom! Boom!
The thunder shakes the window panes.
Run to the car! Run to the car!
Splash! Splash!
To Grandma’s we go
For hot cocoa.
Zoom! Zoom!
Pool Party
Squeal!
Kids are running everywhere.
Running and Splash –
Falling in the pool.
The music plays –
Stomp! Stomp!
The children dance.
Finally, the food is off the grillMunch, munch, munch!
Breakfast
Crack an Egg
Crack an egg.
Stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.
Stoke the heat.
Hear it sizzle.
Shake the salt,
just a drizzle.
Flip it over,
just like that.
Press it down.
Squeeze it flat.
Pop the toast.
Spread jam thin.
Say the word.
Breakfast's in .
to be used in creating your animation
o You will download pics from Clip Art School Edition -http://schools.clipart.com/.
§ Make sure that you click on the pic you want so that you get
to the full size pic and not just the thumbnail.
§ Right-click on image, Save Image As – change the name to
something you will recognize (remember to leave the
.jpg/gif/whatever it says at the end of the filename)
§ Save the pics into your Pics folder
§ You will need to download:
• Minimum of two backgrounds – make sure they are
something that works together as you will move from
scene to scene.
• Characters – I will leave this up to you – you can have
one or two main characters and if you need them,
some background characters, but I would not get too
many – you will need to have movement and if you
have LOTs of characters requiring movement,
o Bibliography – create as you download pics
§ Record the following in a Word document
• Description of picture
• Filename of picture
• Date picture downloaded
• URL of web page picture resides upon (the ENTIRE URL)
• Save the file as
classper_lastname_firstinit_flipbook_bib.doc
We are going to open the character pics in Adobe Fireworks and take out the
backgrounds so that we have just the character itself.
1. Open the pic(s) into Adobe Fireworks
2. Use the Magic Wand (4th tool down in the left column of the toolbox) to
select the background.
3. When you delete the background, a checkerboard pattern is what you
should see – the checkerboard is the absence of all color in a specific
area of the image.
4. On the Optimize Panel, (top right panel) – change the Export File Format
to GIF and the Type of Transparency to Index Transparency:
5. Go to File > Export – save the file into your pics folder – do not change the
name, it will automatically change the ending to .gif – this is what you will
use in your PowerPoint FlipBook Animation.