ACTIVITY: Ten by 10 by X by

Start at a book in the library. Turn to the tenth page. Count down to the tenth line and copy down the line and the source. Repeat the process ten times.

When finished, use the words as your "word bank" and collage something together.

Nancy Celina turn faces to the window

The ten bocks

Nancy Celina turn faces to the window
Poly never spoke
Of the grotesque talents he toke pride in
If he lightly needed
Solace rushed in the somewhere

10 books

The devil pass through. Thick was all she could see out from the window in the morning. She wishes he were a lawyer. She will wear what everybody wears in the universe. 

resources:

1687

telling was a White European other story

falling into college

working to protect his colleagues
poor women and children of labouring classes
presented the great black circle route besides which war effort

therefore their test scores were collected, published, aired on television
part business temple

among magnificent faces

being taken from Turks

fishing in battle

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Sources
The Freud Reader - edited by Peter Gay; Am I OK? - Carol C. Nadelson; Stereotypes and Prejudice - edited by Charles Stengor; The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen Jay Gould; Critical Thinking: Building the Basics - Timothy L. Walter, Glenn M Knudsuig, Donald E.P. Smith; Modern Historiography - Michael Bentley; With Courage and Common Sense - edited by Susan Wittig Albert and Dayna Finet.

this morning

A picture on p. 10 in The Phantom TollBooth by Norton Juster

staggered dropped

in my tub

stars swooped

one said “he went for long,

if asked against…”

before saying never

I think back

where might winter man be

pleased his snow head ran

to New York,

but when?

huge shop

Claudia’s dad never comes early

sometimes Caroline

cracked exploded

breaking ballot record

nasty and me

two rooks

jaw at the

to is of I’d a

What a cute surprise left in this book by a previous reader!

“lady! wake up”!

“thank you Tariq!”

Sources:

p. 10 line 10 of the following 10 books:

- Coverup by Jay Bennett.

- Pictures of Hollis Wood by Patricia Reilly Giff.

- Flour Babies by Anne Fine.

- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.

- The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette Princes of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky.

- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse.

- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

- Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques.

- The Phantom TollBooth by Norton Juster.

- Caleb's Story by Patricia MacLachlan.

ACTIVITY: Write a Tritina

A tritina is a derivative form of a sestina. The tritina is a ten-line form that consists of three tercets and a concluding line. Like in a sestina, the last word of each line repeats, but in a different order. The final line includes all three of the words. For example:

1
2
3

3
1
2

2
3
1

123 or
321

The numbers represent the words that should be repeated at the end of each line. The final line should include all three words in one of the two suggested orders. Our variations may be slightly different, but this is the basic idea.

The nights are gone

The nights are gone
The thunder is let off darkness took over
The doors were shut

The fear can't take over
Hope can't be shut
The rope strangling us is gone

The voice held inside can't be shut
Beauty in the eyes of grown up
yet innocent children will never be gone
They are still here yet they are gone 

Time Goes Fast

Time goes fast
I couldn't finish
It was staring

Why is it staring
am I fast
I couldn't even finish

I will finish
It will stop staring
when I am fast

Finish, Staring, Fast.

While I click on the keyboard

While I click on the keyboard
Sally sleeps across the ocean
Ritaj's baby wakes up and cries.

I can hear the snores and the cries
Smile while clicking on the keyboard
My heart an ocean.

The dreams beyond the ocean
Beyond the tears and cries
Beyond the clicks on the keyboard.

Keyboard ocean cries. 

The aliens look down on us from outer space,

The aliens look down on us from outer space,
But they don't understand the plan.
They can't see a pattern

Or something obscures the pattern.
Perhaps, there are too many clouds or there is too much space
Between them and us. The plan

They think, is not a plan,
But a distraction. Shadows or something. A pattern
Of black and white words and space

And nonsense. A pattern in the grand plan of empty space.

ACTIVITY: Write an Epistrophe Poem.

Write a poem or a series of lines in which each line ends the same way.

My mom smiled in that winter

My mom smiled in that winter
It was as worm as love in winter
I took my first sip in life in winter
I discovered tears in that winter

I Turn the Page

Dance with butterflies. I turn the page.
A magician comes. I turn the page.
I carry a corpse. I turn the page.
With horns made of gold. I turn the page.
Enchanted darkness. I turn the page.
Camel and the mirage. I turn the page.
Above me. I turn the page.
The moon hides and I turn the page.
You are far away from me. I turn the page.




Note: The process used for writing this poem is: randomly turn a page, count three lines and use words from the fourth line. Add "I turn the page"
Book used: Love, Death and Exile: Poems Translated from Arabic by Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati. Translated by: Bassam K. Frangieh.

Who is looking at the moon?

Is that you or the moon?
Do you feel cold when you look out the window at the moon?
Do you want to cover up the moon?
Are you pointing that thing at the moon?
Did you go to a party on the moon?
Will it end late or soon at the moon?
Who will be at the moon?
Will the sun come to the moon?
Do you want to live on the moon?

Write a List Poem

Creative Writing Club members wandered around the LAS Building and made a list of words that they encountered on signs around the building.

Eyman's List

attitude

like; there
in all the pirate's loot
you can be good
that many times

i love you
sat - thurs
don't make excuses
go see Miss Sarah