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Cross-Curricular Found Poem. What is it?. A found poem uses language from non-poetic contexts and turns it into poetry.
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What is it? • A found poem uses language from non-poetic contexts and turns it into poetry. • Writing this type of poetry is a kind of treasure hunt. Search for interesting scraps of language, then put them together in different ways and see what comes out. Putting seemingly unrelated things together can create a new understanding of the material.
Student Directions • As we read this text, you will need to identify important words or phrases, and highlight. • www.wordle.net • www.tagcrowd.com • Type out the phrases, one on each line. • Based on the highlighted words, you will need to create a purpose or topic of these words. • You will use this as a title. • Rearrange the words to maintain a flow. • Here are some tips: • Read aloud as you arrange the words. • Test the possible line breaks by pausing slightly. • If it sounds good, it’s probably right. • Arrange the words so that they make a rhythm you like. • You can also put key words on lines by themselves. • You can shape the entire poem so that it’s wide or tall or shaped like an object. • Emphasize words by playing with boldface and italics, different sizes of letters, and so forth.
Examples: • Science Example: • An example is the scientific "found poem" in William Whewell's "An Elementary Treatise On Mechanics":"Hence no forceHowever greatCan stretch a cordHowever fineInto a horizontal lineWhich is accurately straight." • Fiction Example: • Found Poem From Page 127 of Holes by Louis Sachar Found Poem: There was a change For the worse. The air became humid Beads of moisture ran down The handle of his shovel It was almost as if The air itself was sweating Thunder echoed across the empty lake A storm beyond the mountains. Thirty seconds between the flash And the thunder Sound travels a great distance Across a barren wasteland
Check This Out: • Read the text. • Highlight the important words & phrases. • Read what you have highlighted several times. • Try to organize the words into paragraphs, chronological order, some rhyme, or according to topic. • What topic do the highlighted words cover? • Write this down, and hang onto it as your title! • Start to put them in your order.
