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"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
--Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)
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Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. The contest (hereafter referred to as the BLFC) was the brainchild (or Rosemary's baby) of Professor Scott Rice, whose graduate school excavations unearthed the source of the line "It was a dark and stormy night."
Mrs. Zoppa's Language Arts wrote sentences to submit for this contest......she utilized students knowledge of grammar and writing. Students started with a simple sentence. They copied and pasted that sentence to the next line and she would give directions as to which part of speech to add. Each line, the sentence expanded until it became one long run on sentence. We took these sentences, recorded them onto Audacity and added sound effects. We illustrated these sentences in Paint or Tuxpaint, and created a video file using Photostory 3 for Windows.
6th Grade Projects
Computer Lab Rules
Comic Strips
Art....Paint.....Name
Collage
MS Word
Formal letter to parents with 6 Hyperlinks.
Audacity
Record their Language Arts sentence, add sound effects
MS Powerpoint
Create Powerpoint with collages
Science Textbook
www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
Vocabulary Textbook
www.vocabularyworkshop.com
Religion Textbook
www.faithfirst.com
Free sound effects
http://www.soundjay.com/
http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/index.html
http://www.soundsnap.com/
http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/
http://www.ilovewavs.com/
http://www.ilovewavs.com/Effects/Music/Music.htm
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