Creating a Found Poem 2 Your Favourite Song 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: 1. If you have a group of up to 10 or 12 students, ask each one individually to name their favourite song / songs. If it is a bigger class, put students together to have up to 10 or 12 groups. 2. Listen to the song before the next class to make sure they are appropriate, and select one for each student / group. 3. In the next class, give students strips of paper with the fifth line of each song written on them. As they listen to the songs, they have to identify the lines. You can play each song up to the fifth line twice. 4. Make students compare their answers. Each student or group must have the sentences for each song. For instance, if you have a group of 10 students, and you played 10 songs, each student must have 10 slips of paper with the sentences from the songs written on them. 5. When all the sentences are identified, ask them to arrange them in any order they wish to make a poem. Help them to add linkers, if necessary, so that the poem makes sense. 6. Ask them to read each of the poems out loud, and discuss their meaning in their own view. 7. Take a picture of all poems, post them on an online blog or a poster in the classroom. Example: Open your eyes, Life's what happens to you when you're busy making other plans Whenever I'm alone with you I go to the other side of Paradise It will be just a perfect day And if thou should ask my love I'll love you more with every breath And build a ladder to the stars Do you dream to touch me and smile down deep inside? Oh, God help the beast in me! I knew, I knew, I'd lose you You've got to learn although it's very hard Songs: Take me to the other side, Arisha Beautiful Boy, John Lennon Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen Lovesong, The Cure Just a perfect day, Lou Reed Truly, Madly Deeply, Savage Garden Thorn in my pride, Black Crowes The Beast in me, Johnny Cash No need to argue, The Cranberries You’ve got to learn, Charles Aznavour Forever young, Bob Dylan Jamie come to me, Robert Burns (poem) Participants: Vassiliki Mandalou Teresa Gomes de Carvalho Monica Freire Aleksandra Popovski Jeffrey Doonan Julia Aliverti Mariana Manolova Eva Buyuksimkesyan Priscila Mateini JoAnn Salvisberg-Smith Malu Sciamarelli
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