Found Poem English I

Objectives  We will discover how authors use specific words and images to capture the essence of their writing and information they would like to convey to their readers.  We will use the author’s words to create our own new text.

Homework  Write a found poem (due Thursday)  Write a one page paper discussing your scene’s relationship to the overall message in the story you chose (due Thursday).  Finish any writing activities or assignments on your class google doc. We will turn those in Wednesday.  Make up tests are due Wednesday. (Jumping Frog, Yellow Wallpaper, and Desiree’s Baby are the only quizzes you cannot retake).

Free-write  Now that we have read “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “Desiree’s Baby,” “The Open Window,” “Story of an Hour,” “Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”… in your opinion, what is the most powerful and significant scene we have read and discussed? How does the scene relate to the story’s overall message?

Found Poem  What in the world is a found poem?

Found Poem  Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems.

Process to writing found poems  1. Circle or list the strongest words from your scene. Pay special attention to powerful verbs, significant nouns, and well chosen adjectives. Do not include any words that are repetitive or unnecessary.

Found Poems  2. Start the poem with a strong word or phrase. As much as possible, honor the author’s original order of words. Think about which phrases require emphasis, and consider line breaks accordingly. Strong words and phrases should stand alone.

Found Poems  3. If you add words to maintain grammatical sense, keep them to a minimum. The point is to use the author’s words to create your own new text while understanding what the author is conveying in the story.

Found Poems  4. Title the poem and write a final draft.

 I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move--and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard. And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern--it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads. They get through, and then the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white! If those heads were covered or taken off it would not be half so bad. I think that woman gets out in the daytime!

Process to writing found poems  1. Circle or list the strongest words in your most significant scene. Pay special attention to powerful verbs, significant nouns, and well chosen adjectives. Do not include any words that are repetitive or unnecessary.

 I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move--and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard. And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern--it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads. They get through, and then the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white! If those heads were covered or taken off it would not be half so bad. I think that woman gets out in the daytime!

 Wallpaper  Patterns moving  Discovered  watching so much at night  Crawls around fast  Front pattern/Patterns  The woman behind shakes it!  Many Women  Keeping still  takes hold of the bars  Upside down  They get through  that woman gets out

Found Poems  2. Start the poem with a strong word or phrase. As much as possible, honor the author’s original order of words. Think about which phrases require emphasis, and consider line breaks accordingly. Strong words and phrases should stand alone.

 Discovery!

Found Poems  3. If you add words to maintain grammatical sense, keep them to a minimum. The point is to use the author’s words to create your own new text while understanding what the author is conveying in the story.

Found Poems  4. Title the poem and write a final draft.

“Breaking Free”

Discovery! Wallpaper - Patterns Patterns moving She watched at night How fast the women crawled! How fast the woman behind shakes the bars! They get out, they get out, they get out. There are many women Women upside down! She tries to keep still As she sees the women take hold of the bars They get out, they get out, they get out.

 1. Write Found Poem.  2. Create a beautiful display of your found poem on construction paper with colors, pictures, and anything else to make it pretty.  3. Write a one page paper about your found poem, the scene you chose, and the scene’s relationship to the overall message in the short story. In other words, why did you choose the scene? What made you select the words and phrases you chose? How does this relate to the short story’s theme/s and overall message?  4. Retake any quizzes you need to.  5. If completely finished with tasks 1-4, get out the library book you checked out Friday and read quietly.

 1. Write Found Poem.  2. Create a beautiful display of your found poem on construction paper with colors, pictures, and anything else to make it pretty.  3. Write a one page paper about your found poem, the scene you chose, and the scene’s relationship to the overall message in the short story. In other words, why did you choose the scene? What made you select the words and phrases you chose? How does this relate to the short story’s theme/s and overall message?  4. Retake any quizzes you need to.  5. If completely finished with tasks 1-4, get out the library book you checked out Friday and read quietly.