Found the Big Idea Learning through Found Poetry
“Found” the Big Idea! Learning through Found Poetry
Let’s start through the excerpt from Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand � Read � dea i g i b a e t Wri sage s a p e h t from it! on a post BIG IDEA: An important concept you find in the text
Step # 2 �Highlight words that show your idea (evidence) WAR NING !! Don Pick ’t over-h only the B ighlight! ! EST w ords …
Step # 3 �Cut out the highlighted words
FOUND POEM !? � Try a new way to show what you know! � Play with the words you “found” � Rearrange � THE to create your own poem TRICK! = SHOW YOUR IDEA
Step # 5 �Copy over your poem!! �Use PENCIL �Don’t forget a title! �Think about where to end your lines… �Do you need punctuation?
Sharing! �Share your creation with a partner �Can be the whole poem, or a “golden line”
Discussion �What was your experience like creating this poem?
Found Poetry = Engaging! “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. ” ~ W. B. Yeats “A well-crafted phrase or two in a poem can help us see an experience in an entirely new way. We can gain insight that had evaded us many times, that gives us new understanding and strength. ” ~ Elena Agluilar, Edutopia
My Writers Valley Central Middle School �Community �Students’ needs �Why did I try it?
My Writer Meet Ms. M !
Peruse the Poems �What do you see in her work? �Did the strategy work? �How do you know?
The Big Question How does this strategy of writing found poetry help support students’ engagement with text?
Resources Find Poetry: Using Found Poems in School and Public Libraries to Enhance Student Creativity and Writing by Janet Hilbun, The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults. Facing History and Ourselves Teaching Strategies: Found Poetry https: //www. facinghistory. org/resource-library/teachingstrategies/found-poems Found Poetry: A Tool for Supporting Novice Poets and Fostering Transactional Relationships Between Prospective Teachers and Young Adult Literature by Lisa Patrick, Ohio State University. Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources: Found Poetry. http: //www. loc. gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcese ts/poetry/pdf/teacher_guide. pdf
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