1. Part 1 Found Poetry Due Thursday
To Kill A Mockingbird
Part 1
Found Poetry
Due Thursday

2. Step 1: The luck of the draw!
You will be assigned a character.

3. Step 2: Using Post-it-Notes
Go through Chapters 1-11 and find
Descriptions of the character
Words spoken by the character
Words or passages spoken ABOUT the character
Must have at LEAST ten different “passages.”

4. Step 3: Put it on paper
Take each passage and write it out on a piece of paper.
Number each passage.
Put spaces between the words and skip lines between (double space)

5. Example: 1. 2. Miss Caroline was no more than
Twenty-one She had auburn hair pink
Cheeks and wore crimson fingernail polish 2.
If you tell Miss Caroline we read every
Night she’ll get after me

6. Step 4: Cut it up! Take your written passages and cut out the words.
If you really like certain phrases and think that they should stay together – you can keep those together.
Read
Auburn hair
Miss Caroline
had

7. Step 5: Put it back together!
Take the pieces of paper and arrange them into a “poem” about your character. YOU MUST ONLY USE THE WORDS YOU CUT OUT!
You may use the character’s name only as the title.
You must have at least 10 lines and 2 rhymes
The poem MUST be about your character!
When you have created your poem – glue the words onto a sheet of colored paper.

8. Example Miss Caroline Pink cheeks Auburn hair Teacher of First Grade
With a
Example
ruler
Patted
Jean Louise Finch ‘s
hand
Reading
“cat”
“rat”
“man”
From
Winston County
teaching
The
Decimal
System of
Dewey