We could launch into a discussion after viewing the video regarding authorship and purpose when using found texts. This video is attention grabbing, and I think it would be a good way to start a lesson. My purpose for using this text would be to spark interest and provide some background knowledge on found poetry. Some difficult words/phrases from the video include: Michelangelo, wit, resurrect, owlish eyes, eliminate, Rembrandt, and highbrow. I would argue that for my purposes, the quotes are less important than the visuals of the found poems since I am not teaching the actual book. Although despite their brevity, those quotes range from grade levels 10-12 on average.
There are, however, a few quotes featured in the video and they are all fairly short. Since this text features no spoken language, there are few quantitative measures to analyze. The video also doesn’t demand the viewer actually read the texts on screen, it is simply to show the process of the author. It requires basic background knowledge of the layout of newspaper articles, but since it doesn’t focus on any particular article, students need little to no background info. The book uses erasure style to create new poems or texts from existing newspaper articles. My first text is a short video that is actually a book trailer for Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon. As a reader, I hope this blog post helps you gain a greater understanding of found poetry and its use in the classroom. My text set aims to help acquaint students with poetry without specifically teaching poetic elements. I think this could serve as a formal or informal assessment, depending on how complex of a poem you require. Since found poems can help explore elements like characters and theme, I would want to teach this lesson as a cumulative activity after finishing a text. While I may not always use all of these texts with one class, I wanted the order to mimic the way I would teach a lesson. The sequence helps first build knowledge of found poetry, moves on to explore more complex poems, and finally wraps up with a reinforcement of the lesson. Welcome to my text set! I have curated texts that are going to build students’ interest and knowledge in Found Poetry. I tried to format this post in a sequence that would emulate how I would introduce them to a class.
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