By Natalie Elschlager
Found Poetry is one of my favorite, go-to formats whenever the occasion strikes me. Like the time our school had a pep rally and the normal schedule was totally thrown off-- found poetry to the rescue! That afternoon, we printed two sets of lyrics from our favorite songs and created original pieces.
Found Poetry is one of my favorite, go-to formats whenever the occasion strikes me. Like the time our school had a pep rally and the normal schedule was totally thrown off-- found poetry to the rescue! That afternoon, we printed two sets of lyrics from our favorite songs and created original pieces.
Also, FP is extremely flexible. It can be done independently, with partners, in teams, etc. in any content area. In the past, I have had my students create found poetry from famous speeches, such as King's "I Have a Dream". We have designed found poems from pages in novels or scenes from plays. It's an excellent distributive summarizing tool, as well.
In this lesson, I wanted to challenge my Creative Writing students while also promoting 'writing to learn' in ALL content areas. The idea being students can further study/review a content-specific concept all while honing and increasing their writing practice. It can be done! We even managed to write a poem about Trig....TRIG! Yes, MATH! Insanity, right?;-) The lesson is detailed in the video below. Feel free to steal, tweek, and implement found poetry into your lessons ASAP.
Writing Skills
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Academics Skills
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Social Skills
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form; structure; design
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annotating;
marking the text |
collaboration
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language; word choice
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pulling; citing text
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peer review; feedback
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poetic techniques
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composition
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publication
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