CssPoem

April is national Poetry month.

Use Cascading Style Sheets to display a poem on the screen. You can use a poem or song lyrics. Make the poem appear on the page in a multilayered design.

Style Sheet

Use an EmbeddedStyleSheet

Use the following in your style sheet:

• Positioning - http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_positioning.asp
• size and shape - http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_dimension.asp
• Opacity - http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_image_transparency.asp
• z positioning - http://www.w3schools.com/Css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_zindex2
• font - http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_text.asp
• background - http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_background.asp
• margin - http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_margin.asp
• padding - http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_padding.asp

HTML

Use the following in your html (and control them with your css):

• body
• p
• div
• h1, h2
• you can use more than this list indicates.

What to hand in

Post the page on your wiki. Make a link to it.

Hand in the code of the page by the end of the period.

National Poetry Month

Teen Ink - http://www.teenink.com/Poetry/AZindex.html

Poetrypoems - http://www.poetrypoems.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=4

Poets.org - http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41

wikipedia entry on national poetry month - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Poetry_Month

Library of congress - http://www.loc.gov/poetry/