After reading, return to the text to identify words and phrases that are appealing, important, or meaningful. Arrange these words and phrases to form a poem. Try several arrangements until you find the one that satisfies you.
Here is a sample of a found poem, based on The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke.
How Different Dreams Can Be
A stolen childhood...
Where I had to work like an adult
Although I was small and weak.
Nobody cared about that.
A joyless childhood...
I'm going to find that merry-go-round
So nobody can treat me
Like a stupid pet animal ever again.
The failings, the pains of age...
You wouldn't understand.
Children don't feel the chill.
They skip around in the puddles
and don't even get a cold.
The boredoms of age...
What do adults do all day?
Work,
Eat,
Shop,
Pay bills,
Use the phone,
Read newspapers,
Drink coffee,
Sleep.
Not really very exciting.
The boredoms of youth...
This is just how I wanted it.
I got back
What had been stolen from me
All those years ago.
And now
I find playing with all this
Quite boring.
Strange, isn't it?
He wished that out there,
On that island,
There really was something
That could turn the small and weak
Into the big and strong.
How different dreams can be.
Please compose a found poem based on The Thief Lord, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, or your Caldecott book.
Please post your poem by 8:00 pm on Friday, September 18. You need to label your post with two labels: Assignment.3, your name. The two labels should be separated by a comma. Please comment on two of your classmates' poems by 8:00 pm on Sunday, September 20. I hope you enjoy this assignment.
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