Found Poem USING NIGHT BY ELIE WIESEL

Found Poem USING NIGHT BY ELIE WIESEL

What is a Found Poem? A found poem is composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem. Newspaper articles Novels Short stories Advertisements

Night by Elie Wiesel Memoir Autobiographical novel that focuses on a personal experience- rather than a whole life. Night details Elie and his experience with his father in a concentration camp in 1944-45. He was 15.

Night Vocabulary antechamber (34) smaller room or entry room into a larger room. SS Officers (35) -The Schutzstaffel, better known as the infamous SS, were established by Hitler, to act as protection force at Hitler s mass meetings in public. Many of these meetings were violent and ugly, during the Nazis early quest for power. Sonderkommando (35) prisoners assigned by the Nazis who worked in the crematoria. harangued (38) intense verbal attack. Kapo (38-39) a prisoner assigned by the Nazi guards to supervise the barracks and work of other prisoners. convalescent (38) - a place for a person who is recovering after an illness or operation. crematoria (39) - A building in the camps that contained the ovens, where the bodies of victims were burned. gypsies (40) - a member of a nomadic (traveling) people traditionally living by itinerant trade and fortune telling.

How It Works Read something that has words in it. Look for words, phrases or short passages that you find powerful, moving, or interesting. Note especially examples that evoke strong feelings about your subject matter (Holocaust). You must include a personification and metaphor in your Found Poem. You can find a personification/metaphor within the reading or you can create one from the words you found. When you come across a word, phrase or passage that catches your attention, highlight it. Suggestion: Color Coding your highlighting. (Title, Figurative Lang., important ideas vs. possible ideas)

How It Works continued.. Look at your highlighted words/phrases and choose approximately 25-30 different words/phrases that together create the mood, tone, idea that you want for your poem and write each one on a post-it note. **Make sure to include the page number you found it on.** Play with your words. Move your post-it notes around and look at the words in a different order. You could possibly look for patterns or a story. Go through your words and eliminate everything that is dull, or unnecessary, or that just doesn t seem to fit for a poem about the Holocaust. On a piece of paper, lay out all of your post-it notes in the order that you like the best. Think about the overall feeling (tone) of your final list.

How It Works continued.. Make any minor changes necessary to create your poem. You can change punctuation and make little changes to the words to make them fit together (such as change the tenses, possessives, plurals, and capitalizations). If you absolutely need to add a word or two to make the poem flow more smoothly, to make sense, or to make a point, you may add a few words. Most words chosen are articles (a, an, the) or prepositions to help with flow or rhythm. (99% should be from the text) Find an appropriate title.

Typed Final Copy (Print 2 Copies!) Space or arrange the words so that they re poem-like. Pay attention to line breaks, layout, and other elements that will emphasize important words or significant ideas in the poem. Read aloud as you arrange the words! Test the possible line breaks by pausing slightly. If it sounds good, it s probably right. Arrange the words so that they make a rhythm you like. You can space words out so that they are all alone or all run together. You can also put key words on lines by themselves. Do not forget to include the metaphor and personification within the poem. REMEMBER! A poem is NOT SENTENCES. It is carefully composed of powerful words and phrases that reveal an overall meaning or story. Additional figurative language or imagery are powerful tools in creating meaningful poems. DUE TUESDAY 1/29 (2 typed copies) - Follow the scoring rubric.

Scoring Rubric: You must turn in 2 TYPED COPIES of your poem on Tuesday along with the rough draft (full of sticky notes).