For our 9th graders, we expose them to these forms of poetry to expand their creativity both artistically and as a type of free practice in the classroom for the student. So in class, we first worked on making poetry a little different than most would expect. The students made their own college out of magazines and then proceeded to try and describe in their own terms the definition of poetry out of cut up magazine letters, old books, and more. The results are always amazing with this one; just getting to see the student's ideas and creativity flow out on to a blank sheet of paper, it's truly amazing!
Our second version of found poetry was from simple pages of a book. They took these and made them their own by blocking out as many or as little words and or letters that they needed. The results with this one were quite stunning as well! To see what these children can come up with out of already spoken words that are printed down on the page and to make them their own is incredible!
We are very excited to see their creativity in the English room prosper!
