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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?