8th Grade Language Arts

Unit: Bringing Poetic Stories to Life

Daily Lesson Plan: Day 3 (Mini Lesson)
Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be introduced to a new poetry form
and will be able identify a found poem.
Daily Formative Assessment:
Pick out an old book or magazine and begin working on Found Poem
Materials Needed:
Pen/pencil
Journal
PowerPoint
Vocabulary list
Old Books or magazines for the students to use for their Found Poem
Pens, tape, markers, paper, and other supplies for the students.
Rubric
Activities:
1. Open PowerPoint and discuss found poetry. Give them time to write
down definition.
5 minutes
2. Show them examples of found poetry (slides 15-18) and explain why
they are considered found poetry on the first two slides (four examples
total). For the last two slides (four examples) have different students
explain why the examples are of found poems or not. (All of them are
except for the last one. The last one could possibly be one but the
students have to show the teacher before they cut the text from the
book or magazine in order to make sure it is in the same order).
10 minutes
3. Pass out rubric for Found Poem and go over it with them.
5 minutes.
4. They will then have the rest of the time to go to the pile of old books
and magazine and carefully cut out a page or two they want to use to
make the found poem. They can also get started if there is time left.
They will leave the Found Poem in the classroom and finish it tomorrow.
At least 15 minutes
Accommodations:
Student A Make sure she has enough time to write down vocabulary.
Other than this, Student A and B should be fine with this activity.