2. 1. Turn in Reading Journal 2. Compose Found Poems 3. Share poems 4. Quick discussion of your HOT questions. 5. Continue and finish Act One. 6. If time, work on parallel reading journals. Standards - The AP Literature student will accomplish the following… 1. …use of creative writing assignments to understand writing as a craft. 2. … careful observations of textual detail.

3. Hamlet

4.  According to the website Ask Jeeves.com, it is “a composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem.”

5.  A found poem is when you take little parts of a piece of reading  Select the author’s words that you really like centered around an idea (DICTION)  Combine them to make something new

6.  They don’t need to be complete sentences, so don’t waste your time with boring words.  THEY DON’T NEED TO RHYME! Seriously. They really don’t.  Rules of grammar don’t apply. Image © 2007 http://www.sunysb.edu/writrhet/utilities/utilities.html

7.  1. Consider Hamlet’s words thus far in Act One.  2. Pick a focus. You can focus Hamlet’s despair, his uncle’s duplicity, his mother’s moral ambiguity, the Ghost’s purpose. Etc/  3. Scan the text again. As you scan it, underline details, examples and phrases (no longer than ten words) that you think are really powerful and support your focus.  4. Write these down on a separate sheet of paper.

8. 5. Look over your words and phrases. Get rid of boring lines, words or descriptions that you think don’t fit so well anymore. 6. Now it’s time to play with these words! You can….  Mix up the order of the words and phrases  Get rid of words you don’t need  Change the way the lines are spaced out or broken up– it’s okay to squish words together or just leave one word on a line. You have full poetic license with this composition.

9. 7. Read your poem to yourself (not out loud) and fix any awkward areas. 8. Present the final product to the class.

10. Remember me. Revenge through flesh and blood The father that thou didst love. With swift wings, sweep to my revenge! Remember me. My commandment alone shall live. Murder the serpent that did sting thy father’s life. Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres. Remember me.