Poetry Remake Competition Important Information

Poetry Remake Competition
  Important Information

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Objectives
The Competition is organised to:
• enhance students’ awareness of and interest in
  English poetry by poets in Hong Kong
• encourage artistic and creative response and
  expression through producing visual
  representations of the poems
• provide opportunities for cross-curricular
  collaboration in the promotion of reading

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Competition Rules & Regulations
 Two divisions: Junior Secondary (S1-3)
                 Senior Secondary (S4-6)

 Entries should be submitted:
    through schools
    on individual basis

 Maximum 20 entries from each school (i.e. 10 for each
  division)

 Each entry accompanied with an Artist Statement in
  English to explain the ideas and message of the artwork
  and the artistic choices made

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Competition Rules & Regulations

Choose a poem from the list on Slide 5 and present
it in a two dimensional artwork (e.g. drawing,
painting, printmaking, photography, computer
graphics), up to a maximum of A2 size.

 any media, such as poster colour, water colour,
  crayon, oil pastel and ink, can be used.

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Poetry Remake Competition
                         Selected Poems:
 Junior Secondary Division (S1-3)          Senior Secondary Division (S4-6)

 “His t-shirts” by Tammy Ho                “Hero Tree” by Kit Fan

 “Lamma Island Tofu-fa” by Kate Rogers     “City” by Louise Ho

 “Thinking of Work” by James Shea          “Mama” by Akin Jeje

 “fence” by Eddie Tay                      “Vanilla in the Stars” by Agnes Lam

 “Shanghai Street” by Jennifer Wong        “The Calligrapher” by Mary Jean Chan

The relevant Circular Memorandum and forms as well as the learning and teaching
resources (with both student and teacher versions) are available for downloading
from www.edb.gov.hk/poetryremake.
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Important Dates (Revised & Extended)
Dates                          Important Events
  11 December 2020             Return of the School Submission
                               Plan

 25-26 February 2021           Submission of entries by hand with
                               the Artist Statements and the original
                               copy of the Entry Submission Form

   End of May 2021             Announcement of results by letters to
                               schools and emails to the teacher(s)
                               in charge
  The above forms can be found in the Circular Memorandum on
  www.edb.gov.hk/poetryremake.
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Adjudication
Assessed by poets and officers from the ELE and AE Sections
of the EDB based on the following criteria:

 Understanding of the chosen poem and a clear connection
  between the poem and the multimodal representation
 Effectiveness in the use of the chosen mode/medium to
  present the message and ideas in the chosen poem
 Originality and creative response to the chosen poem
 Effectiveness of the artist statement in explaining the ideas
  of the work and the choices made in the multimodal
  representation

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Prizes
       Award                                    Prizes
Outstanding Award      Awardees will receive:     Outstanding and
[About 10 entries in   -   a certificate          Commendable Awards
each division]                                    entries will be displayed in
                       -   book coupons worth
                           HK$1000 for each       “Poetry Dai Pai Dong: A
                           winning entry          Collection of English
                                                  Language Poetry from Hong
                                                  Kong” (online anthology in
Commendable            Awardees will receive:     the process of development)
Award                  -   a certificate
[About 20 entries in   -   book coupons worth     Outstanding Awards entries
each division]                                    will also be displayed in the
                           HK$500 for each
                           winning entry          Exhibition of Student Visual
                                                  Arts Work 20/21 in July
                                                  2021.

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Cross-curricular Collaboration
            and
Learning and Teaching Strategies

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Collaboration of ELE & AE Teachers
Teachers of the two KLAs could:
• select a few poems that are appropriate to students’ interests and
  levels for discussion in class and encourage them to read more on
  their own to promote self-directed learning

• integrate the selected poems into their respective curricula and
  provide opportunities for analysing, appreciating and re-presenting
  the poems in a creative way

• select and submit outstanding student works as entries for the
  competition

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Learning and Teaching Strategies for English Language
and Literature in English Teachers

  Teachers could
 • discuss with students the themes of the chosen poems and how the
    use of language and literary devices (e.g. metaphors, imagery)
    facilitates thematic conveyance with the support of the web
    resources suggested on Slide 13
 • help students connect the poems to their experiences and daily life
   to develop personal and creative responses
 • guide students to see the connection between words, images and
   music with the use of the ETV programme “Between the Lines –
   Hong Kong Poetry in English” on Slide 14 (particularly 4:50-6:20)
 • guide students to generate and express ideas, as well as edit the
   Artist Statement

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Learning and Teaching Strategies for AE Teachers
Visual Arts teachers could help students:

• use appropriate visual language of the selected 2D
  artwork form (e.g. drawing, painting, printmaking,
  photography, computer graphics)
• develop ideas and images for expressing the selected
  poem such as through appreciating relevant artwork
• apply relevant skills and techniques for creating artwork

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Web Resources on the Selected Poems

                      www.edb.gov.hk/poetryremake

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ETV Programme:
Between the Lines – Hong Kong Poetry in English

https://www.hkedcity.net/etv/resource/4823567799
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