ACTIVITY: Spaghetti Strip Found Poems

Magazine articles were cut into word strips. Club members took handfuls of word strips and arranged them into spaghetti strip found poems. See there results below...

Words were taken from National Geographic magazine articles from October 2016 through June 2016.

World Keeps Telling

The Book offered few clues

In the beginning there was no sound

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.