Creating a Found Poem Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sentences from other sources and reframing them in a creative and original way, thus imparting new meaning.
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Procedure: Text used: "The Five Orange Pips" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, retold by Clare West. It can be done with any short story or novel. 1. Each student has to take three strips of paper. 2. They must collect three words, short phrases or sentences from the text that has something to do with 'symbol' or could be applied to the idea of 'symbol'. Allow them 20/30 minutes to do this. 3. All the students stand up, make a circle and stay close to each other. They must bring their own three sentences to the group circle. 4. Start by putting your three sentences on the floor. 5. The students must make only one move in turn, by adding, rearranging, or taking away the words, phrases or sentences. 6. The purpose of the poem is to think about the idea of the theme, 'symbol'. 7. At the second time, the students must pass, rearrange or take away the words, phrases, sentences (they cannot add anything anymore). 8. Read it with pauses, punctuation (oral interpretation). 9. Take a picture, send a copy to each student, and ask them to write their own poem. Acknowledgement: I borrowed and developed this idea from a lesson by Sarah Brown Wessling - Johnson Senior High School, Johnson, IA / USA.
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