2. Record at least descriptive words/phrases from chapter 17. GOAL: at LEAST 15 Example: “glinting with Mica” p.87

3.  What do you notice? What is a found poem?

4.  Today  using descriptive passages to create a found poem.  WHAT IS A FOUND POEM?!  A poem created using words and phrases from another text.

5. Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.

6.  Review your descriptive words/phrases from chap. 1 7.  Go back and search for additional words that are particularly powerful, moving, or interesting.  Look over your lists and cut out everything that is unnecessary (that is not about setting). Working with the shortened list, rearrange the words and make minor changes in punctuation, capitalization, etc. It’s okay to change the forms of the words.  Now you may add up to seven words of your own—but no more than seven additional words.  Choose a title and check for spelling errors. Minimum: 3 lines per stanza

7. Stanza Capitalize each new stanza. End each stanza with a period

8. Monday…we will slice your poem into a thousand pieces!

9.  Review your descriptive words/phrases from chapter 1 7.  At this stage, keep the words and phrases in the order found and skip lines so that material can be added.  Go back and search for additional words that are particularly powerful, moving, or interesting.  Look over your lists and cut out everything that is unnecessary (that is not about setting). Try to cut the original list in half.  Working with the shortened list, rearrange the words and make minor changes in punctuation, capitalization, etc. It’s okay to change the forms of the words.  Now you may add up to seven words of your own—but no more than seven.  Choose a title and check for spelling errors.

10. House of Bones (from chapter 7 of Stargirl) Jawbones, hipbones, femurs in every room— bedroom, closet, back porch. Skulls, fossil faces, carpus and metacarpus on the roof, in the bathroom, in the kitchen cabinet. Another species, a rare bird— one of us, someone you know.

11. River Among the reeds, behind the rocks, and in the rushing water. Through the dark and tangled forests where everything began. Along the muddy cattle tracks and in the long thatch grass. Down the rocky cliffs and into dark crevices. The river roared, the river snaked like a long thin ribbon through the golden grasslands, through the dark and tangled forests, through the veld.