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Finding a Poem Anywhere
• To identify narrative elements in a
text
• To negotiate meaning and construct
a “found” poem
Gary Soto
“Poetry keeps alive the small moments which
add up to a large moment: life itself.”
Respond to this quote in regards to Soto’s poem
“Oranges.”
Quickwrite about a memorable experience
of your seventh-grade year so far.
“Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto
Predict what this narrative will be about based
on the title.
We will chunk this text as:
Chunk 1: page 330
Chunk 2: pages 331-33
Chunk 3: page 334
As we read…
Underline or highlight words, lines, and phrases
that are powerful or interesting, or that suggest
mental images and show the significance of the
“Seventh Grade” event.
Relative Clauses
Example: He had read a GQ magazine that his older brother had
borrowed form the Book Mobile. (the relative clause modifies
magazine)
Relative (adjective) clauses are a type of
subordinate clause.
Insert an adjective clause in these simple
sentences:
Victor had a crush on Teresa.
Victor and Teresa are together in one class.
Small Groups
Each group will look at a different “chunk” of the
story.
You will agree on words, lines, or phrases that
capture the essence of your chunk.
Found Poem
A found poem is one that is created from words
and phrases from another text.
The ideas is to remain true to the meaning of
the original text by using its words exactly as
written but transforming them into a new
format as a poem by manipulating, or even
repeating, the words and phrases.
Groups
• On each strip of paper, your group needs to
write the words and phrases you agreed upon
as important in your chunk of the story.
Whole Class
• Let’s look at the strips from each group.
• We will arrange the strips into a found poem –
playing with line lengths, stanza size and
shape, line breaks, order, and repetition.
• Once we are finished: Title?