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Hear it Here

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One day I was sure I wanted to go to the shore. I mean who doesn’t want to see the sea? I hopped in the car with two of my friends to go to the ocean. We were determined to go there whether the weather was good or not. Once we got there, my friends got their towels out to sit on the beach. The sand was so coarse that of course we had to keep our shoes on. There was this pesky seagull wanting some of our food so we shooed it away with a shoe. While we were sitting, we ate eight popsicles and saw a couple of nuns walking but none of them had bathing suits on. We walked along and saw a whole plank of wood washed up on the shore and I just thought, “Who would do that?” I really hated to desert the beach, but me and my friends really needed some dessert from dairy queen!

Hear it Here

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I Guessed I Was A Guest

For my final assignment of the week, I tried something a bit new. Seeing as this is a “digital storytelling” class, I decided to write a little story with the caveat being it had to contain a plethora of homophones. The assignment was only worth one star, but I’d already completed nine, so this would round me off for the week.

My process consisted of opening up Notepad, searching for a list of homophones (I ended up using the list at the bottom of this page), and creating a little short story. Micro story may be a better name.

I had a lot of fun writing this up! Although, my Notepad was a garbled mess when I was creating it. I kept having to re-format it and was rather undecided about whether or not I would make it more of a poem with some rhyming. So, if you hear a bit of rhythm in my voice, that’s that idea shining through. I really wanted to use the feint/faint pairing, because I think they play off of one another pretty well.

Also,

May or may not have converted the little one's pop-up Thomas the Tank Engine playhouse into a makeshift recording booth… #noir106

— Spencer Scott (@spencer_cscott) February 22, 2015

I covered the Tank Engine with thin blankets and hung out in my cave while trying to complete an assignment or two.

The Traveling Serf

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Another audio assignment i chose was Hear it Here. This assignment included thinking of a bunch of homophones and writing either a poem or short story that includes them. I chose it because it seemed interesting and a little difficult to write something with a Lot of homophones in it. A lot of homophones are hard to get to work together. My title phoning home is also supposed to be a play on “homophone.” In order to do this assignment I just listed a bunch of homophones on a piece of paper, and then I set to writing a poem. After that, I recorded it to sound-cloud and posted that here.

Out went the serf
to see the surf
you see
this male
did mail himself
to be
instead of watching bees
and watching dear
my dear
the surf couldn’t bear
to only be able to read
or hear
he longed to be amongst the reids
not wood
oh would you leave
the place of leaves
to see
would you rather know
or no? a new place like
the sea?

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Am I A Player? (Audio Poetry)

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The second audio assignment I chose was Here It Here (worth 1 star). The goal was to write a poem/story, using homophones (words that sound the same with different meanings). This was another opportunity for me to get creative and practice poetry.

It took me some time to decide on which homophones to use for my story. I really had no set idea, it sort of just came naturally and developed into a short poem about an unfaithful man. This topic is common nowadays because it seems as if no one is really faithful anymore. To make it clear, this poem does not reflect around me. It could be any man. Deep down he knows what he is doing is wrong, but he questions whether he should be labeled a “player”, or just flat out unfaithful. Again, it’s kind of crazy how this poem developed, but I’m sure others will get the gist of it.

Assignments like these get the created juices flowing, and I appreciate that. This was another fun exercise and attempt to tell a story through a poem that contains homophones. I had never heard of the word “homophone” until today. So I can honestly say that I’ve learned something new and had fun in the process. Here is the poem in audio format.

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Homowhat?

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To be completely honest, when I read this assignment, I had completely forgotten what homophones were. It’s been a long time since the 2nd grade, okay?

Anyway, even though I did remember after a few minutes, I still couldn’t think of more than three or four of them off the top of my head, so I found this list online of homophones in the English language. So many of them were animals! Well, maybe not ‘so many,’ but definitely more than a few and they’re the ones who caught my attention.

I originally chose the assignment because it sounded pretty simple. While it wasn’t the most difficult task, it was a little harder than I thought it would be. And I did incorporate the animal theme.

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Hear It Here

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Submitted by: Maura Monahan

This is an audio assignment where you will need to use homophones – words that sound the same with different meanings (hear/here, bee/be, dear/deer, etc.). Using as many homophones as you can, write and record a brief story or poem.