Sunday, October 16, 2005

FOUND POEM

Well, a new strategy to be used in teaching is the Found Poem. It is an interesting concept... you take significant words or phrases from any text and arrange them to give them a new meaning. Why? Well it allows students to think abou the words or phrases, it allows them to manipulate text, meaning, and hopefully increase understanding while having fun with words.

The one listed in Wikippedia as many people attributed the speeches of Donal Rumsfeld as found poetry - this is worth noting: :)

The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld, Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
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Guy Jean said...

Hi, Jorge, returning the favour...
There's a great book full of great writing ideas, and more than that, it's a book about communicating and many different styles and means of written communication. It's not a textbook. It's called Families Writing

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