Illustrating a Found Poem
1. Arrange the quotes you have collected in order to create a found poem which reinforces one or more of the significant themes of the work. Design your project so that meaning and visual are integrated. They should be part of one another.
a. Choose one of the themes that you tracked.
b. This poem should be about 20 lines in length.
c. It is to be poetically sound. Include the page numbers.
c. Illustrate the poem to enhance meaning and aesthetic value. See the classroom exemplars.
2. If necessary, you may use the quotes out of sequence
3. Make minor editorial changes in the quotes to improve the clarity and artistry of your poem;remove/re-sequence a quote, omit a word, add a word, change word endings for tense or number, add/change articles, etc.
4. Consider your choices related to punctuation, capitalization, line breaks, stanza breaks, indentation or spacing to increase effectiveness
5. Do not make any editorial changes which would change meaning. Your goal is to be true to the themes of the book.
6. Under the poem, or on the back, write a detailed scholarly discussion, in critical voice, of Hosseini's
purpose in using this motif to enhance his message. The following question should be answered.
In what way(s) does this repeated imagery build the significant themes/idea of the work? What do
these images say about human nature?
Your purpose is to explain the principle behind the motif and show us the examples of this principle in action
with the quotes...help us understand how your motif works.
a. Choose one of the themes that you tracked.
b. This poem should be about 20 lines in length.
c. It is to be poetically sound. Include the page numbers.
c. Illustrate the poem to enhance meaning and aesthetic value. See the classroom exemplars.
2. If necessary, you may use the quotes out of sequence
3. Make minor editorial changes in the quotes to improve the clarity and artistry of your poem;remove/re-sequence a quote, omit a word, add a word, change word endings for tense or number, add/change articles, etc.
4. Consider your choices related to punctuation, capitalization, line breaks, stanza breaks, indentation or spacing to increase effectiveness
5. Do not make any editorial changes which would change meaning. Your goal is to be true to the themes of the book.
6. Under the poem, or on the back, write a detailed scholarly discussion, in critical voice, of Hosseini's
purpose in using this motif to enhance his message. The following question should be answered.
In what way(s) does this repeated imagery build the significant themes/idea of the work? What do
these images say about human nature?
Your purpose is to explain the principle behind the motif and show us the examples of this principle in action
with the quotes...help us understand how your motif works.