Verbs and Nouns Game, Found Poem

In keeping with our essential question of "How do poets create interest in their work?" we played a word game.  Pick any two letters of the alphabet and think of words that begin with those letters; however, the first word needs to be a verb or some kind of descriptive word and the second word needs to be a noun. For example: you have the letters T and U.  What combinations can you come up with?  How about Tickling Underwear (verb and noun), Tacky Unicorns (adjective and noun).  Don't worry about making meaning; sometimes the best ideas come out of nonsense.  So, in your notebook, under the title Verbs and Nouns, pick two random letters and write what comes to mind.  Do this 3 times.

The other thing we did in class was to create a Found Poem.  Last Tuesday, I gave as homework the assignment to to photocopy a page from your Independent Reading Book. Today you created a Found Poem using that photocopy.  For examples, click on this link and this link.  The idea is to take an existing text and refashion it, reorder it.  Think of it as the literary equivalent of a collage.  You want to create new meaning, or an action, or a feeling, or a mood.  Notice that you also want to surround the words you isolate with shapes or colors that help to convey your idea.  Turn your Found Poem in to me as soon as you complete it.