1. you don’t have to suffer to be a poet. adolescents is enough suffering for anyone. -john ciardi...
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You don’t have to suffer to be a poet.
Adolescents is enough suffering for anyone.
-John Ciardi
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Theory and Research
• Free Verse
• Emotions, Adolescents, and Poetry
• Playing With Language
• Found Poetry
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Rationale
• Free verse vs. formulaic poems
• Controversy
• Adaptable
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Types of Found Poetry
• Taken from environmental print
• Taken from original writing
• Taken from existing pieces of literature
• Taken from several nonfiction or mixed genre texts
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Found Poem-2000The voices in my head:
princess
be happy
girls rule
drama queen
hooter’s chicks
Told me
Losers never quit
Aren’t you glad I’m
not
your
Kid?6
Take about 2 minutes and
free-write in your journal.
You can write about whatever you are feeling, something going on this weekend, or visit one of your writing territories. The only requirement is that you write the entire 2 minutes.
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• Go through your journal entry and underline 3-7 words or phrases that you like.
• Arrange them in poem format.
• Share
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Stations
• Novels
• Newspaper
• Multigenre texts
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Alternative Ways of Using Found Poetry
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The shivering dumpster
Nailed—KURPLUNK– the trash can
Thong,
Water,
Pizza pieces,
Awesome.
Pepsi…
Alaska commercialism.
Eternity.
Violet media.
Satiated myself.
University.
Heavy depression prepackage.
Clinking, table and television
Pulsing blizzard advertisement
Solitude.13
The enduring quality of found poetry lies
in its ability to forever change students’ attitudes, values, and sensibilities.
Because it challenges them to find poetry in all the ‘wrong’ places,
it continues to thrill them with
those rare and elusive encounters
-Nancy Gorrell
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