2.  Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions.

3.  The resulting poem can be defined as either: treated: changed in a thoughtful and systematic manner or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original.

4.  Listen to a found poem by Naomi Shihab Nye.

5.  Now it’s time to create your own found poem!  Your table group will go to an assigned location on campus.  Sit and listen for 20 mins and try to write down everything you hear other people say (Be sure to introduce yourself to the teacher and tell him/her why you’re there if you’re in a classroom!).  After time is up come back to the classroom.

6.  Share what you’ve written with your group.  Highlight the best five lines you heard and share again.  As a group, decide how to organize your highlighted lines into a found poem. It can be treated or untreated.  Write your final draft on large paper to share with the class.