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Summertime
Education Resource
Supported by
the Department for Education and
the Department for Innovation and Skills
Summertime
Education Resource
Teacher Advice,
Synopsis & Themes
Curriculum links and activities
Before the movie
Visual and screen literacy
Sparking creativity
Telling the story
A local story
Content Information,
Exploring ideas for poetry
Synopsis & Themes
Poems that tell a story
Advice for teachers 15+
Free-verse poetry
The film includes:
• Strong language
The next steps • Adult themes (death, grief, mental health, parental conflict)
After the movie
Synopsis
Getting ready to write a review Summertime chronicles the intersecting stories of 26 young spoken word poets over
a hot summer day in Los Angeles. The idea was born of the director’s interaction with a
Guide to writing a review workshop where performers from across the City of Angels recited fearlessly personal text,
the project was structured so that their voices could individually shine as well as coalesce
Red Carpet Premiere in the context of a larger, unified and moving narrative experiment – part urban musical and
sociological project.
Meet the creative team
A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a
Meet the cast limo-driver – they all weave in and out of each other’s stories expressing themselves and
their relationship to the city. Through free verse poetry they express life, love, heartache,
Additional resources family, home and fear. One of them just wants to find a place that still serves good
cheeseburgers. By the time they all end up together in a tricked-out mega-limo overlooking
the city, we believe in what their crazy, creative togetherness represents: hope. As the limo
driver says, “Y’all got a pocket full of dreams, so don’t let me down.”
Themes
A unifying theme in Summertime is “home”.
Characters reminisce about it, pine for it, search for it.
Genre: Cinematography:
Drama/Musical John Schmidt
Country +Year: Editor:
United States, 2020 Jonathan Melin
Runtime: Music:
95 mins John W. Snyder
Languages: Producers:
English Kimberly Stuckwisch, Jeffrey Soros,
Alisa Tager, Simon Horsman,
Director:
Carlos López Estrada, Diane Luby Lane
Carlos López Estrada
Screenplay:
Cast:
Paolina Acuña-González, Jason Alvarez,
Tyris Winter, Marquesha Babers,
Dave Harris
Maia Mayor, Austin Antoine
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The Australian Curriculum
Summertime and links with activities
Education Resource
This education resource has been developed with links to the Australian Curriculum.
Activities have been created to reflect each of the achievement standards, depending on
the year level, including content descriptions within each learning area and the general
capabilities. The resource aims to provide teachers with information to help prepare students
before attending the movie, as well as structured learning activities for the classroom after
viewing the movie.
Teacher Advice,
Synopsis & Themes General Capabilities – specific learning activities are linked with the following icons:
Curriculum links and activities Ethical Understanding
Literacy
Before the movie
Critical and Creative Thinking Personal and Social Capability
Visual and screen literacy
Numeracy
Sparking creativity
Telling the story English Achievement Standard
Year 10 Level Description By the end of Year 10, students evaluate
A local story Band Description how text structures can be used in
Students engage with a variety of texts for innovative ways by different authors. They
Exploring ideas for poetry
enjoyment. They interpret, create, evaluate, explain how the choice of language features,
Poems that tell a story discuss and perform a wide range of literary images and vocabulary contributes to the
texts in which the primary purpose is development of individual style.
Free-verse poetry aesthetic, as well as texts designed to inform
Productive
and persuade. These include various types
The next steps Students show how the selection of
of media texts, including newspapers, film
language features can achieve precision
and digital texts, fiction, non-fiction, poetry,
After the movie and stylistic effect. They explain different
dramatic performances and multimodal
viewpoints, attitudes and perspectives
Getting ready to write a review
texts, with themes and issues involving levels
through the development of cohesive and
of abstraction, higher order reasoning and
logical arguments. They develop their own
Guide to writing a review intertextual references. Students develop
style by experimenting with language
critical understanding of the contemporary
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features, stylistic devices, text structures
media and the differences between media
and images.
texts.
Meet the creative team Literary texts that support and extend
students in year 10 as independent readers Information (from credible/verifiable
Meet the cast are drawn from a range of genres and involve sources) about a wide range of specialised
complex, challenging and unpredictable plot topics. Text structures are more complex and
Additional resources
sequences and hybrid structures that may include chapters, headings and subheadings,
serve multiple purposes. These texts explore tables of contents, indexes and glossaries.
themes of human experience and cultural Language features include successive
significance, interpersonal relationships, and complex sentences with embedded clauses,
ethical and global dilemmas within real- a high proportion of unfamiliar and technical
world and fictional settings and represent vocabulary, figurative and rhetorical
a variety of perspectives. Informative texts language, and dense information supported
represent a synthesis of technical and by various types of graphics and images.
abstract
Content Description
Analyse and explain how text structures,
language features and visual features
of texts and the context in which texts
are experienced may influence audience
response ACELT1641
Compare and evaluate how ‘voice’ as
a literary device can be used in a range
of different types of texts such as poetry
to evoke particular emotional responses
ACELT1643
Create literary texts with a sustained
‘voice’, selecting and adapting appropriate
text structures, literary devices, language,
auditory and visual structures and features
for a specific purpose and intended audience
ACELT1815
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The Australian Curriculum
Summertime and links with activities
Education Resource
SACE Stage 1 English Analysis
Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts An1 Analysis of the relationship between
In this assessment type, students analyse purpose, audience, and context, and how
the interrelationship of author, text, and they shape meaning.
audience, with an emphasis on how Application
Teacher Advice,
language and stylistic features shape ideas Ap1 Precision, fluency, and coherence of
Synopsis & Themes
and make meaning in a range of contexts. writing and speaking.
Curriculum links and activities Students responded to a range of text types, Ap2 Use of appropriate language features,
such as: novels, short stories, films, poetry, stylistic features, and conventions for a
Before the movie and plays. range of audiences and purposes.
Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts
Visual and screen literacy In this assessment type, students create SACE - Stage 2 Politics, Power, and
imaginative, interpretive, and/or persuasive People
Sparking creativity texts for different purposes, audiences, and Students develop an understanding of
contexts, in written, oral, and/or multimodal expressions of power and politics, and
Telling the story
forms. the effect of these on individuals, families,
A local story Assessment Type 3: Intertextual Study schools, workplaces, communities,
In this assessment type, students reflect governments, and institutions in law, media,
Exploring ideas for poetry on their understanding of intertextuality by and the commercial world.
analysing the relationships between texts, Students develop a broad understanding
Poems that tell a story or by demonstrating how their knowledge of political events and their impact through
of other texts has influenced the creation the integration of historical, legal, cultural,
Free-verse poetry
of their own texts. philosophical, geographical, and economic
The next steps Knowledge and Understanding perspectives. Insights into these factors
KU1 Knowledge and understanding of ideas allow students to develop an understanding
After the movie and perspectives explored in texts. of how power is constructed in different
KU 2 Knowledge and understanding of contexts.
Getting ready to write a review language features, stylistic features, and
conventions to make meaning.
Guide to writing a review
KU 3 Knowledge and understanding of ways
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in which texts are created for a range of
purposes and audiences.
Meet the creative team
SACE – Stage 1 Media Studies SACE – Stage 2 Media Studies
Meet the cast
Knowledge and Understanding Knowledge and Understanding
Additional resources KU2 Knowledge and understanding of how KU3 Understanding of facts, opinions, and
audiences influence and are influenced by bias in media texts or products.
forms and content of media texts. Research and Analysis
Research and Analysis RA2 Research into and analysis of the
RA2 Research into and analysis of the ways in which groups and individuals are
ways in which groups and individuals are represented in media.
represented in media. Producing
Producing P1 Design and planning of media products
P1 Design and planning of media texts. for selected audiences.
P2 Use of appropriate production techniques Use of appropriate production techniques
and technologies. and technologies, and media conventions.
Communication Communication
C1 Reproduction of the forms and features C1 Reproduction of the structural and
of media texts, to convey meaning. conventional features of different media
C2 Fluency of expression and use of texts, to convey meaning.
appropriate media terminology. C2 Fluency of expression and use of
appropriate media terminology.
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Before
Summertime the Movie
Education Resource
Visual/Screen Literacy Film Technique Questions
Students today are more connected to - Do you notice a movement from longer to
Teacher Advice, media than any previous generation and the closer shot distances?
Synopsis & Themes screen has become a new kind of page for - When are the various shot distances used,
them to read and make meaning from. Visual is it during a conversation between two
Curriculum links and activities or screen literacy are the skills, knowledge characters or in the opening of a scene?
and understanding students can build to What other examples are there? What
Before the movie support them ‘read’ images. By engaging does this convey to the audience?
in discussions different interpretations of - How does the use of lighting shape our
Visual and screen literacy
the film may emerge. These discussions perception of character, space or mood?
Sparking creativity can form the basis for students to have - How do the camera angles shape our view
alternative interpretations. of the characters or spaces?
Telling the story Being literate in reading films requires
students to be able to: Film Design Questions
A local story • watch a film and analyse its content, - What do the costumes and make-up tell us
cinematography, and technical aspects about the historical setting of the story?
Exploring ideas for poetry • use the language of creative moving image - How do the costumes and make-up
productions convey character?
Poems that tell a story
• understand the content of the film. - What is the purpose of the music in the
Free-verse poetry film?
You can build visual/screen literacy
- How do the settings and sets help the
knowledge, skills and understanding by
The next steps viewer to understand the story?
asking students to:
After the movie • explain their response to a film by providing
evidence to justify their reason/s
Getting ready to write a review • observe what techniques the director uses
to tell the story
Guide to writing a review • think about the reasons the film was made
• identify how colour used for costumes, sets
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and lighting affects how the story is told.
Meet the creative team
Film Content Questions
Meet the cast - How does it make you feel and why?
- What do you think the director is wanting
Additional resources the viewer to think about or question?
- What is it about?
- Who is it for?
- What do you think the purpose of the
film is?
- What does it make you wonder?
- Have you seen anything like it before?
(Make connections)
- Would you add anything else to the
story?
- Why is the story presented in this genre?
Martin Scorsese talking about the
importance of visual literacy:
youtube.com/watch?v=I90ZluYvHic
Martin Scorsese’s message to teachers
“You’re training the eye and the heart of
the student to look at a film in a different
way by asking questions and pointing to
different ideas, different concepts, and
suggestions. You’re training them to think
about a story that is told to them in visual
terms in a different way and to take it
seriously.”
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Sparking
Summertime Creativity
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Summertime includes the stories of 25 Carlos Lopez Estrada
young people and their relationship to the “About 6 months ago, I had the privilege
city of Los Angeles on one hot summers day. of sitting through a spoken word poetry
Through free verse poetry they express life, workshop featuring 25 young performers
love, heartache, family, home and fear. from Los Angeles. I left the event feeling
Teacher Advice, invigorated after seeing a group of diverse
Synopsis & Themes The stories bring the city of Angels to young artists expressing so eloquently
Curriculum links and activities life – by the end of the film you feel like many of the issues that had been spinning,
you know it a little bit. Each free verse unanswered, in my mind. Their voice
Before the movie poem expresses the feeling of each of the felt vibrant and necessary. This was an
characters with each character different experience I will never forget. I met the
Visual and screen literacy from the next – different races, shapes, sizes, director of the organisation they perform
sexualities and genders – criss-crossing under and presented the idea to collaborate
Sparking creativity and intersecting with each other at different with all 25 of them in a narrative film project.
points in the story. Many of the voices are The concept was to allow these poets to
Telling the story
from marginalised groups – so hearing each develop and workshop their poetry into
A local story of them feels important – they’re finally being an interconnected narrative that explore
heard by the masses. their relationship to their city. Each poet
Exploring ideas for poetry would write and perform their own scene
The following statement from the director of and we would all work together piecing
Poems that tell a story Summertime Carlos Lopez Estrada shares this urban mosaic over the next 5 months.
the moment where the journey of the This became an extraordinary exercise in
Free-verse poetry
creation of the film began. collaborative storytelling..”
The next steps
After the movie The young poets in Summertime come
from across Los Angeles at Get Lit —
Getting ready to write a review Words Ignite, a non-profit in Koreatown
founded by Diane Luby Lane to promote
Guide to writing a review literacy through self-expression.
Red Carpet Premiere Get Lit: https://www.getlit.org/
Meet the creative team
Videos from Summertime poets -
https://www.getlit.org/summertime
Meet the cast
Additional resources
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Telling the
Summertime story
Education Resource
Just like in the movie Summertime students Excerpt from spoken ode to Los Angeles
will explore telling the story of the place they at the start of Summertime
live in and their connections to that place.
This morning the sewer water smells like
Students write poetry and then work in
groups to weave the poems together into a butterscotch and I found a beetle flattened
story to perform and film. into the concrete of Koreatown.
Teacher Advice,
Synopsis & Themes Scooter versus scarab, squashed skidmarks
Storytelling has always been an important
shattering emerald green
Curriculum links and activities part of society and relationships. First Nation
people’s stories have passed stories from And on the escalator leading down to the
Before the movie one generation to the next over thousands 7th St., Metro pigeons paint the handrails
of years. Sharing stories is a way to connect splattering off-white. Flocks lost, in the
Visual and screen literacy with people underground ecosystem of delayed train
Sparking creativity Some stories have the ability to make us traffic and disappearances.
stop for a moment and think about our place But my sure step says, “Not me, not today”
Telling the story and the connections – between people, And my sure step says, “Sure you could ask
places, nature, culture, and history. me for directions.”
A local story
It’s true, I do know my way around this
Exploring ideas for poetry angel angst town, with all its ins and outs
Poems that tell a story and In-N-Outs, all the creatures hidden in
crevices gone off track.
Free-verse poetry
The next steps
After the movie
Getting ready to write a review
Guide to writing a review
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Meet the creative team
Meet the cast
Additional resources
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A local
Summertime story
Education Resource
In 2020 students from two schools in
Nancy Bates
Adelaide, Craigmore High School and
Nancy is considered one of the best singer
Playford International College worked
Teacher Advice, / songwriters in Australia today by national
collaboratively alongside of Nancy Bates,
Synopsis & Themes treasure Archie Roach.
a proud and strong Barkindji Woman and
nancybates.com/
Artist Mentor. With the guidance of Nancy,
Curriculum links and activities
students came together to establish or
Before the movie re-establish a connection, an appreciation,
and a respect for the places we live and
Visual and screen literacy visit by personally engaging with the stories
that arise from history and its present-day
Sparking creativity communities.
Telling the story
Work with a partner: NAIDOC School collaboration video
A local story • Students listen to the recording and read Craigmore High School and Playford
the lyrics of a song written and created by International College.
Exploring ideas for poetry students for NAIDOC week 2020 – Always
youtube.com/watch?v=Qg_THcT9WXQ
was Always will be. (Lyrics on next page).
Poems that tell a story
• While listening to the recording and
Songlines with Playford International
Free-verse poetry
College and Craigmore High School
reading the lyrics students note down:
Mentored by Nancy Bates
The next steps - What story do the lyrics tell you?
Mixed by Ryan Martin John
- How do the words reflect on issues of
After the movie Recorded at Northern Sound System
power, access and equity?
- What was different about reading the lyrics A NAIDOC Week 2020 collaboration from
Getting ready to write a review
to listening to the recording? Adelaide Festival Centre. Supported by
Guide to writing a review Adelaide Festival Centre’s centrED and
Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation with
Red Carpet Premiere thanks to James & Diana Ramsay Foundation
and Department for Education South Australia.
Meet the creative team
Meet the cast
Additional resources
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Songlines
Summertime Playford International College [Abuse of indigenous kids man that was not
and Craigmore High School. right]
Education Resource Mentored by Nancy Bates [So lets drop the abuse and all the assault]
[The government took it and it was their
We are the longest living culture, fault]
That has stood the test of time. [So please forgive us, and let it be done]
Our legacies continue throughout, [So the whole of Australia can come
This great big land of ours. together as one]
Teacher Advice, We shall not forget [Yeah let it be done]
Synopsis & Themes And we show our respect [So the whole of Australia can come
Recognise our history together as one]
Curriculum links and activities Won’t remain a mystery Always was,
We are brothers and sisters Always will be
Before the movie Mothers and misters [Always will, yeah]
We share the same home [I pay my respect to the first Australians.]
Visual and screen literacy Always was,
Walk together not alone
Always was, [and it’s right]
Sparking creativity
Always will be Always will be
Telling the story An ancient sacred land of the first
Australians, [Always will, yeah]
A local story Of the first Australians [I pay my respect to the first Australians.]
Always was,
Exploring ideas for poetry
Always will be Always was,
Poems that tell a story I pay my respect to the first Australians.
They’ve lived here for so long, stories shared [Always was]
Free-verse poetry Gems of untold value, but we did not care,
But time has shown us forward, from a Always will be
The next steps generation lost
[Always will be, yeah]
A culture that existed that we carelessly
After the movie tossed [Go. Sing it]
The time is here, for what lies ahead
Getting ready to write a review
The future is coming, we must be prepared [I pay my respect to the first Australians.]
Guide to writing a review To make a change, to make all smile,
Working together, we must reconcile [Sing it now]
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Always will be
Always will beI pay my respect to the first
Meet the creative team Australians. [Always will, always will be]
[RAP: I’m Australian]
Meet the cast [That’s the way that we are] I pay my respect to the first Australians.
[Got to respect the land]
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[Yeah we’ve all come far]
[But things are bad]
[They were the stolen generation]
[Some never understood their situation]
[Time to learn, to have good relations]
[Everybody do your part for reconciliation]
[Some never understood their pain]
[It’s a new era now so let’s save the day.]
[But it’s got to change]
[can’t remain the same]
[We gotta make sure it never ever happens
again.]
[Aboriginal Australians let’s go take a stand]
[and stay strong together right to the end]
[But, we will not forget the stolen
generation]
[Who suffer degradation]
[what humiliation]
[Learned from the past]
[so let’s unify a nation]
[People are equal, from different countries
and dimensions]
[Things that convicts did to you made me
not wanna be white]
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Exploring ideas
Summertime for poetry
Education Resource
Poetry is a medium that provides students
with a way to explore hard-to-describe What makes a poem…a poem?
aspects of their lives. Students begin their Poets themselves have struggled with
exploration by writing their own individual
this question. Watch this short TED-Ed
Teacher Advice, poems using one or more of the following
Synopsis & Themes ideas. However, not everyone loves poetry. animation that explores the question.
Its significance is varied some love it and
Curriculum links and activities others consider it of lesser importance or youtube.com/watch?v=JwhouCNq-Fc
boring. The following ideas and activities
Before the movie have been designed to make writing poetry
fun and engaging.
Visual and screen literacy
Sparking creativity Idea 1 Idea 2
Anaphora - such a great word Poetry meets visual art
Telling the story
A local story • Collect striking images that communicate
the word or phrase used in the poem they
Exploring ideas for poetry • Think of a word or a phrase that you often have created using anaphora.
use with your friends. • On a piece of A3 card create a collage using
Poems that tell a story For example: basic, salty, seriously, mate, the images from:
bruh/bro, go off, really, shady, flex. - books, magazines, online images,
Free-verse poetry • Using that word write a poem using newspapers, their own drawings’ different
that one word as many times as possible, font styles and size.
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repositioning it, and playing with its uses. • Create a gallery of the collages when
After the movie - What is it about the meaning of the word? students have completed their collages
- The rhythm of the word? • Students complete a gallery walk of the
Getting ready to write a review creations and respond to each other’s
• Anaphora in music – students identify collages:
Guide to writing a review songs that use anaphora. Explore reading - What feelings, sensations or emotions does
the lyrics to the song rather than singing the collage evoke in you?
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them. - What title would you give the collage?
Meet the creative team - Does it change the rhythm? - What connections did you make to the
- Does it change the meaning? collage?
Meet the cast
Anaphora
Additional resources
The repetition of a word or sequence of
words at the beginning of successive
clauses, phrases, or sentences. It is one of
many rhetorical devices used by writers
to emphasise their message or make their
words memorable.
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Summertime for poetry
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Idea 3
Blackout poetry - the hidden
poem
Teacher Advice, Blackout poetry will teach students to look
Synopsis & Themes closely at words and play with language
while being creative and having fun.
Curriculum links and activities
Some pages just don’t work – if you can’t
Before the movie
find a word that jumps out try another
Visual and screen literacy page.
Sparking creativity
Telling the story
A local story
by Austin Kleon
Exploring ideas for poetry
Poems that tell a story
Free-verse poetry
The next steps
After the movie
Getting ready to write a review
Guide to writing a review
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Meet the creative team
Meet the cast
Additional resources by Giulia Forsythe
Step 1 Step 4
Students find a piece of text to use – Adding images to the poem can help to add
this could be a page from a newspaper, meaning.
magazine or books from a library that have
been cancelled or even a photocopied page Students curate an exhibition of the blackout
from a book. poetry pieces created. Mounting the finished
images will invite the viewer to see the piece
Step 2 more as an object and a substantial artwork.
DO NOT read the page chosen. Students
scan the page and look for an “anchor” word
– a word that jumps out at them. This word
will guide the direction and meaning of the
poem.
Step 3
Now that “the” word has been found
students read the complete text and locate
connecting words.
TIP
Make sure the convention of reading words
read from left to right is used. This helps the
reader make meaning of the blackout poem.
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Summertime for poetry
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Idea 4
Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpses is a game that the French
Teacher Advice, surrealists artists of the 1930’s introduced.
Synopsis & Themes It included drawn and written games. The
drawn images used a piece of paper divided
Curriculum links and activities into three with one person drawing the head,
another the torso and the last the legs. Each
Before the movie preceding artist can only see a line as a guide
to where they need to start drawing their
Visual and screen literacy part of the figure.
Sparking creativity Exquisite Corpse poetry
Telling the story Exquisite corpse poems requires each
author to write a line of poetry before
A local story passing it on to the next person in the group.
Exploring ideas for poetry Before starting students need to agree
on a sentence structure. An example of a
Poems that tell a story sentence structure could be – adjective,
noun, verb, adjective, noun.
Free-verse poetry
The only other hard and fast rule of the game
The next steps is that each writer starts writing without
From the French seeing what has been written before.
After the movie
Exquisite – extreme
Getting ready to write a review Corpse – body
Guide to writing a review
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Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Meet the creative team Fold A4 paper into equal Each student has piece Students fold over what
sections based on number of paper – start timer for they have written so next
Meet the cast of people in the group. 15 seconds start writing. person can’t see what is
Stop when timer sounds. written. Now write ONE
Additional resources word relating to what has
been written.
Step 5 Step 4
Repeat process until each Students pass paper
student has written on on to next student and
each section. receive their next piece –
Students MUST NOT look
at what has been written.
Idea 5
Daydream believer
Students look around and observe their Freewrite poetry
surroundings, including out of the window Writing poetry freely without stopping or
and make a list of ten images they can see. thinking.
From that list of ten they choose three they
find most interesting or compelling and
freewrite about them. Explore any memories
or associations they have with the words.
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Summertime a story about a
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place
Individually students write their own free
Different people perceive the same city or verse poem considering:
the neighbourhood they live in, in different - How to describe the place they call home –
ways. their city?
Teacher Advice, The streets, communities, public places and - What does it make you think of?
Synopsis & Themes the value we place on these things and how - What does this place mean to you?
the places are described and how people - What does this place enable you to do?
Curriculum links and activities
interact with them influences us. Our sense - Do they tell the story of place from
Before the movie of place also reflects our historical and someone else’s perspective – a
experiential knowledge of a place. grandparent, a friend, a person from
Visual and screen literacy another time (past or future)?
What is the ideal place? - How do our relationships with the places
Sparking creativity Working in small groups students discuss we live impact our lives, the lives of others,
and record their response to the following the strength of our communities, and the
Telling the story questions. fate of our world?
• What would the perfect place be like?
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• What is special about your perfect place?
Exploring ideas for poetry • How does it include everyone? (Different
ages, cultural backgrounds groups; Birth to
Poems that tell a story 5, 6–12 years, 13–22 years, 23–50 years
and 60+ and different cultures. Interesting Facts about Summertime
Free-verse poetry • What song would you choose to represent
your ideal place? • 25 young spoken word poets make up
The next steps
the cast of Summertime
After the movie • The film was the debut for the majority of
The senses are building blocks of life and the cast
Getting ready to write a review connect us to the world around us. • All of the poems/stories in the films are
Individually students think about and based on or inspired by things in the
Guide to writing a review record their responses to: poets’ lives
Touch – what connections do they have • The majority of the writers are at high
Red Carpet Premiere school/ college. They have never written
with others in their place/city
Sound – what soundwalk would they have a movie before.
Meet the creative team
for their place/city • The movie was filmed over 17 days.
Taste – how would they describe the city • The movie features original documentary
Meet the cast
through taste/food – this could come from a footage that was filmed over the summer
Additional resources variety of cultures by a documentary crew.
Sight – what does it look like – the art • The movie was shot mostly with available
(sculptures, street art, graffiti, signs), the light.
buildings, the people, the clothes • The film features an original song,
Smell – does the city have a smell that HOLLYWOOD, written by 2 of the poets
reminds them of something, is there a and produced by Jean Baptiste Kouame
special smell from their childhood. (Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Kid Cudi,
Madonna)
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Summertime poetry
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Free verse poetry provides an open and Working in small creative teams:
engaging opportunity for students to • watch the first Help! & How To’s - How to
express themselves. write a group poem
youtube.com/watch?v=UjE7Q3i5A9c
As a whole class: • creative teams decide what the story or
Teacher Advice, • Each student has a copy of an excerpt from theme of their poems will be. Is the story
Synopsis & Themes spoken ode to Los Angeles from the start of of their place – local, or about the city or the
Curriculum links and activities Summertime whole country? Or is it about home?
• Read through the excerpt together • review what they have already written
Before the movie • What characteristics of free verse can • teams discuss how they will weave their
students identify poems together to tell their story
Visual and screen literacy - repetition (often with variation) • watch any of the following Help! + How To’s
- patterns of stressed and unstressed to refine their poems
Sparking creativity syllables
- alliteration - How to use Alliteration
Telling the story
- occasional internal rhyme (rhyme occurring youtube.com/watch?v=VA6x4soEekk
A local story inside a line)
- occasional rhyme at the ends of lines (often - Metaphors, Similes, & Hyperboles
Exploring ideas for poetry imperfect rhymes such as half-rhymes and youtube.com/watch?v=yewEOE0nMvI
pararhymes )
Poems that tell a story - patterns of assonance (syllables in which - How to be Specific
the vowel sounds are the same) youtube.com/watch?v=eD9JUYSClDc
Free-verse poetry
- imagery.
The next steps - How to use Imagery in poetry
Get Lit - Help! & How To’s youtube.com/watch?v=6slUpfv19NU
After the movie The following Help! & How To’s from Get Lit
help writers to get started on writing their - How to Make Revisions
Getting ready to write a review poems. The videos are short, from 2 – 3 youtube.com/watch?v=7trwJc6xO94
minutes long and use free verse poetry to
Guide to writing a review explain the help and how to’s. The videos - How to Memorise a poem
range from how to write a group poem, how youtube.com/watch?v=VdFFWeyfLTg
Red Carpet Premiere
to incorporate the characteristics of free
Meet the creative team verse poetry into the poem right through to - How to Project
how to make the poem come alive through youtube.com/watch?v=NW9GgurR7n0
Meet the cast performance.
- How to Use Body Language in Performance
Additional resources youtube.com/watch?v=xt_96dFd6_U
- How to Make Performances more Dynamic
youtube.com/watch?v=N5gUbStGSug
Excerpt from spoken ode to Los Angeles NOTE: The How to Make Revisions discusses
at the start of Summertime engaging peers in the process of refining the
poem.
This morning the sewer water smells like
butterscotch and I found a beetle flattened
into the concrete of Koreatown.
Scooter versus scarab, squashed skidmarks
shattering emerald green
And on the escalator leading down to the
7th St., Metro pigeons paint the handrails
splattering off-white. Flocks lost, in the
underground ecosystem of delayed train
traffic and disappearances.
But my sure step says, “Not me, not today”
And my sure step says, “Sure you could ask
me for directions.”
It’s true, I do know my way around this
angel angst town, with all its ins and outs
and In-N-Outs, all the creatures hidden in
crevices gone off track.
14 AFFYouth.orgThe next steps
Summertime
Education Resource The following checklists are for students How to Make a Film
to use before they start to film their
poems. Checkout the AFF resource for tips to
support students with the filming of their
Each creative team have worked on:
stories of place.
- creating their individual poems
Teacher Advice, adelaidefilmfestival.org/aff-youth/
- weaving the poems together as a story
Synopsis & Themes workshops
of their place
Curriculum links and activities - the poems have been rehearsed
- selected any props they need for
Before the movie filming and identified a location for
filming.
Visual and screen literacy
Creative Teams perform for each other and
Sparking creativity
provide feedback with a focus on:
Telling the story
- The connections they made with the
A local story story
- Clarifying questions, i.e. something
Exploring ideas for poetry they didn’t understand
- A suggestion.
Poems that tell a story
Free-verse poetry
The next steps
After the movie
Getting ready to write a review
Guide to writing a review
Red Carpet Premiere
Meet the creative team
Meet the cast
Additional resources
15 AFFYouth.orgAfter the
Summertime movie
Education Resource
Getting ready to write the review
Individually students write their response to
the movie. This could include responses to
Teacher Advice,
the following provocations:
Synopsis & Themes
Curriculum links and activities
- What do you know now that you didn’t
Before the movie know about Los Angeles before?
- How does Summertime provide a voice for
Visual and screen literacy
young, marginalised youth?
Sparking creativity - What did Summertime make you wonder?
Telling the story - What were the issues being faced by
young people in the film?
A local story
- Are the issues the same or different for
Exploring ideas for poetry youth in Australia – what, how and why are
Poems that tell a story those issues different?
Free-verse poetry
Writing the review
The next steps
The information students have written in
After the movie response to viewing the movie and the
template – Guide for writing a film review
Getting ready to write a review
– will assist them to write a review of the
Guide to writing a review movie and to rate the movie.
Red Carpet Premiere
Meet the creative team
Meet the cast
Additional resources
16 AFFYouth.orgSummertime Guide to writing a film review
Education Resource
Movie details: Features of a review:
Title: • approximately 600-1200 words
Running time: • usually written in past tense, in third person voice
Genre: • uses technical and descriptive language
Teacher Advice, Director: • provides an objective analysis of the film’s formal
Synopsis & Themes Cast: techniques and thematic content
Curriculum links and activities • provides information about interesting elements of
the film:
Before the movie
- formal techniques
Visual and screen literacy - thematic content
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• uses the full name or last name when referring to the
director or cast.
Telling the story
A local story
Paragraph 1 Headline - only limited by your imagination.
Exploring ideas for poetry
Introduction Here is an example:
Poems that tell a story Spider-Man
Free-verse poetry Actual Headline: Spinning An Amazing Web
Provide a few details that give the reader insight into the
The next steps
type of movie you are reviewing.
After the movie
Getting ready to write a review
Paragraph 2 • Where and when does the movie take place?
Guide to writing a review Summary of movie • Who are the most important characters?
Red Carpet Premiere • What is the movie telling the audience? Be careful
to not provide any spoilers for your reader.
Meet the creative team
Meet the cast
Additional resources
Paragraph 3 • Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the movie:
Opinion/Analysis - provide specific details and scenes.
Paragraph 4 • Who would you recommend the movie to, including:
Conclusion - - relate this to the rating of the movie
evaluation and - how many stars would you give the movie?
recommendation
17 AFFYouth.orgRed Carpet
Summertime Premiere
Education Resource
Once the creative teams have finalised
their media product students complete
Final refinement before screening a producer’s statement reflecting on the
Prior to seeing Summertime students elements of the production, including the:
worked in creative teams to create their own
Teacher Advice, scene. By comparing and contrasting with - central idea of the production
Synopsis & Themes what they have seen they are now able to
- use of different production techniques
make decisions that will refine and improve
Curriculum links and activities their scenes. - suitability of the final media product for its
intended audience
Before the movie
Working in original creative teams’
- ways in which the media product uses or
Visual and screen literacy students:
challenges the conventions of the selected
• review what they have created for their film text.
Sparking creativity
AND
Telling the story • contrast it with the story created in
Summertime.
A local story
Exploring ideas for poetry Creative teams:
Poems that tell a story • discuss and make any changes as if
they were the Production Designer for
Free-verse poetry Summertime.
The next steps • complete in final filming and editing.
After the movie
Don’t forget to include a title name and
Getting ready to write a review credits to movie.
Guide to writing a review
Red Carpet Premiere
Meet the creative team
Production Designer
In charge of making sure each shooting
Meet the cast
location is perfect, prepared, and on point
Additional resources with the vision of the film. The locations, sets,
costumes, lights, etc all work together to
create a world on screen.
18 AFFYouth.orgMeet the
Summertime creative team
Education Resource
Jeffrey Soros
Producer
In 2008, Jeffrey founded Considered
Entertainment. There he produced the
Teacher Advice, Emmy-nominated, Humanitas Prize-
Synopsis & Themes winning documentary A Small Act. Jeffrey
also produced Rules Don’t Apply, written
Curriculum links and activities and directed by Warren Beatty, and
Before the movie Basmati Blues with Brie Larson. Since 2014,
Jeffrey has been Co-CEO of Los Angeles
Visual and screen literacy Media Fund (LAMF), which is active in film,
TV, music and sports.
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Telling the story Carlos Lopez Estrada
Director, Producer, Co-Writer
A local story Carlo’s debut film, BLINDSPOTTING,
premiered opening night at Sundance 2018
Exploring ideas for poetry
and subsequently sold to Lionsgate for a
Poems that tell a story theatrical release. Carlos was nominated for
Outstanding Directorial A
Free-verse poetry
chievement of a First-Time Feature Film.
The next steps Summertime, premiered opening night
of Sundance 2020. He began his career
After the movie directing music videos for musicians like
Billie Eilish, Father John Misty, Thundercat
Getting ready to write a review and Flying Lots, Carly Rae Jepsen, Clipping
and Passion Pit. In 2012, he won a Latin
Guide to writing a review Grammy for an animated music video he
directed for artists Jess & Joy. He recently
Red Carpet Premiere
joined Walt Disney Studios to direct an
Meet the creative team original animated feature as well as the live-
action adaptation of Disney’s Robin Hood.
Meet the cast
Kimberly Stuckwisch
Additional resources Producer
Stuckswisch is an award-winning
film, commercial, music video, and
theatre producer/director. Her works
have showcased at Sundance, SXSW,
the Hammer Museum, MTV, Cannes,
Camerimage, The Public Theatre, and the
Festival Circuit. Kimberly has built a career as
a vocal supporter of bold creative ideas, with
her work often bringing awareness to timely
social issues and breaking conventional
expectations. She met the founder of Get
Lit five years ago and vowed to help bring
their stories to light. Since then, she has
partnered with the Get Lit poets on several
productions, including Lin-Manuel Miranda’s
Hamilton Mixtape. Recently, Kimberly joined
forces with long-time collaborator, Director
Carlos Lopez Estrada, and founded their own
production company Little Ugly, with only
one mission in mind: to offer a stimulating
home for creators to create. Summertime is
Kimberly’s first narrative feature.
19 AFFYouth.orgMeet the
Summertime cast
Education Resource
TYRIS WINTER West Los Angeles Community College.
Born to be an artist, aspires to be a legend. He has had the privilege of touching the
Tyris expresses himself through poetry, final stage at the Get Lit Classic Slam
drawing and painting. From freshman year twice. Bryce is a firm believer that race is
to Senior year, Tyris held a continuous first not defined by birthplace nor dialect. He
Teacher Advice, place streak at the AV Art Fair. Tyris is the speaks on his long battle with insecurities
Synopsis & Themes winner of the international Why I Rise poetry and how he overcame them. An active
competition (of over 300 entries) and his member of his community, Bryce has
Curriculum links and activities work has been featured online and in major worked closely with local YMCA for the
publications. His team took first place in the past 4 years and was chose by Mayor
Before the movie 2019 Classic Slam poetry competition and Garcetti as a Youth Ambassador to do
Tyris has worked as host for several news humanitarian work in Australia. In 2018 he
Visual and screen literacy
outlets interviewing celebrities such as performed for world leaders at the United
Sparking creativity Miranda July and Dr Melina Abdullah from Nations as a Peace Day Ambassador.
Black Lives Matter. As a sentient being Tyris’ LEE (AMAYA) BLANKENSHIP
Telling the story passion is to inspire others to be vulnerable Lee Blankenship is currently a sophomore
with themselves. For in vulnerability there at Santa Monica College. She was the
A local story lies honesty, the seeds to create poetry for highest scoring poet in the 2017 Get Lit
healing. He works as a graphic designer and Classic Slam and she has been featured in
Exploring ideas for poetry
social media coordinator for Get Lit. three Get Lit Now episodes. She has been
Poems that tell a story MARQUESHA BABERS featured on KCET’s Literary Riot series
After growing up homeless and channelling with her LACES high school classmates,
Free-verse poetry her pain into power, Marquesha became and she recently had a reading at Skylight
a mentor for Get Lit and an ambassador Books. During the March for Our Lives on
The next steps for the film Girl Rising, which stresses Washington, a short video featuring Amaya
the importance of education for girls in speaking out against gun violence followed
After the movie developing countries. With Get Lit, she has a performance of Miley Cyrus on the main
Getting ready to write a review
performed at the MUSE Conference in stage.
Oregon, at the Women in the World Summit BENE’T BENTON
Guide to writing a review at Lincoln Centre (alongside Angelina Bene’t Benton has performed at Dodger
Jolie and Hillary Clinton) at Cadogan Hall Stadium, Pantages Theatre, The Women
Red Carpet Premiere in London, and at colleges and universities of UTA, March for Our Lives LA, and public
throughout the US. She has also appeared schools all over Los Angeles. She currently
Meet the creative team on the series Verses and Flow and worked as attends UC Santa Cruz where she studies
a blogger for ONE.org. theatre. In 2019, she was featured in
Meet the cast MAIA MAYOR Pamela Adion’s Better Things on FX.
For the past years, Maia has worked at Get GORDON IP
Additional resources
Lit as a writer, performer, and teacher. Her Gordon Ip is an Asian-American actor,
poems are viral sensations online, and her poet, and artist. He prioritises the uplifting
chapter in the award winning Get Lit Rising of Asian-American voices in all of his
is the most requested for interviews and live work, in an unapologetic, explicit fashion.
performances. She has lectured at the ALAN He also speaks on issues of immigration,
Convention and was chosen as a panellist/ experiences in being undocumented,
perfomer at the NCTE Conference where and LGBTQ+ issues. He has performed
she spoke and performed for over 1 000 at The Actors’ Gang theatre owned by
English teachers across the country. Maia Tim Robbins, at UCLA, and at the Wallis
has been featured on the TK Jakes show, Annenberg Centre for the Performing Arts,
Huffington Post, TEDxYouth and more. had has been featured twice in the Los
AUSTIN ANTOINE Angeles Times for his personal stories on
Austin Antoine is a multifaceted being a DACA recipient.
performance artist that blends the lines JASON ALVAREZ
between music, poetry, and theatrics. Austin Jason is a poet who simply loves using his
commits to mixing all of his passions with voice to tell stories. Whether it be about
abilities that span from singing soulful solos home, the hood, his friends, Mac’n cheese,
to conquering an opposing rapper in a or even the daily life of a Latino. Jason
contest of improvised wit. After graduating has touched the final stage of Th Get Lit
California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Classic Slam on his first year competing.
acting, Austin has sustained artistic success He has also performed for Jane Fonda,
through touring performances, rap battles, and for students in classrooms across
musical collaborations, and hosting creative California.
workshops.
BRYCE BANKS
Bryce Banks recently graduated from the
Academy of Music and Performing Arts at
Hamilton High School, and currently attends
20 AFFYouth.orgAdditional
Summertime Resources
Education Resource
Review – Variety - by Peter Debruge 23
January 2020 – La La Land Meets La Ronde
https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/
summertime-review-1203474272/
Teacher Advice, Review – Los Angeles Times – by Carlos
Synopsis & Themes Aguilar 9 July 2021 – How Summertime’s
young L.A poets transformed ‘Raya’s’ Carlos
Curriculum links and activities Lopez Estrada.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-
Before the movie arts/movies/story/2021-07-09/
summertime-carlos-lopez-estrada-kelly-
Visual and screen literacy
marie-tran
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Review - The News-Herald - by Mark
Telling the story Meszoros 13 July 2021 – Spoken-word
poetry power the interesting, intermittently
A local story inspirational Summertime.
https://www.news-herald.com/
Exploring ideas for poetry
things-to-do/spoken-word-poetry-
Poems that tell a story powers-the-interesting-intermittently-
inspiriratonal-summertime-movie-review/
Free-verse poetry article_07b13d36-e344-11eb-8cc9-
d7694447ac61.html
The next steps
Writing 101: What is Anaphotra? Learn about
After the movie the Thetorical Device with Examples from
Getting ready to write a review
Literature and Famous Speeches
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/
Guide to writing a review writing-101-what-is-anaphora-learn-
about-the-rhetorical-device-with-
Red Carpet Premiere examples-from-literature-and-famous-
speeches#what-is-the-function-of-
Meet the creative team anaphora
Meet the cast Ten Examples of visual poetry
https://www.michaelandsarachaney.com/
Additional resources
blog/2018/11/21/ten-great-examples-of-
visual-poetry
.
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