Found Poetry 9RTd

This week we made some 'found poetry'- this is where you create your own poem out of existing text.

Notes that we made on the board

We used pages from the script of the film we are studying- Pay It Forward. Check out what we made!

Cheyanne's poem

Cheyanne's process

CHANGE THE WORLD <3
Something is going to happen
The world is shit
It's like all against me
You're grading me for my effort
But you should really look at the result
What is it worth
It too complicated for me now
I already blew out my candles
For everyone to pay it forward
It's like your big chance to fix something that ain't yours
All I wanted was to see if we could really change the world
THE END 

Waka's poem

I want us to get along
Do you want money for the bus
You can't have a friend like that
Let a homeless man into my house
He's my friend
He's very exigent which I like
I have know idea
Bull shit
I've been waiting all day for you
You think you can do whatever you want just because your face is messed up

Dion's Poem

Dion's process- he chose randomn lines to reorder

We're going to kill you
Pay it forward!
I paid it forward
Your the greatest
You don't respect
Its just taking forever
Right on time
You ever gotten to know somebody
Who are you?
I started swinging one by one
I RESPECT
YOU

Jennyfer's poem

Speak Up....

I had a chance to talk,
because we're going to love words,
One day you'll be free,
Look around you,
The world is,
Just a big disappointment,
Unless you take the things you don't like about the world,
flip them upside down right,
And you can start today,
It's possible,
Each of you can do it,
Surprise us.

Henry's poem

Some people are used to things the way they are even if they're bad.
I guess they kinda give up and when they do, everybody loses.
Relax.
Be yourself.
Be proud of yourself.
The worlds not exactly..... shit.
These moments stay trapped in forever.

Edward's poem

Sorry
thanks
no, I didn't mean you
oh god, that's horrible
get out of here
what happened to your face
well it was a slip up
i'm sorry
what's the matter
just a tummy ache
then why did you come
i'm used to this
sorry.

Attribution to come (not sure who this belonged too!)

Malulu's poem

Trevor a boy whos nice
Why cant all boys be like that
Naughty Rude and disrespectful
Most of them fat like you
Pay it forward
i already did
You need to pay it now
or else they will kill
Make sure you pay
help others in need
make them happy
and take them to the cafe.

Presentations about the poems

After 9RTd read the poems and looked at them more closely, we worked on some presentations to explain what we found out.

Here are a selection...

Poetry about racism

The mighty 9RTd have been thinking about racism as part of our current unit. We chose to study The Freedom Writers, and out of that flowed discussion around the theme of racism.

As part of this, we looked at some poems about racism, mostly by Harlem Renaissance poets and Maya Angelou. Here's some visible learning (how to process poetry for understanding) from annotating the poems in pairs.

Still I rise by Maya Angelou

Equality by Maya Angelou

Racsim has a human heart by John Nelson

Racism is around us everywhere by John Duggan

I, too by Langston Hughes

A Place To Stand- Karlo Mila

Today the students were working hard analysing a poem called A place to stand by Karlo Mila. This is from her book A Well Written Body. Tomorrow we'll be working on a paragraph about it. Here are some pics of the students working hard.

Coopa and Cheyanne hard at work.

Latisha busy as.

Henry, Langa working cooperatively.

Dion, Langa, Henry on the job.

Nathaniel, Edward and Teariki focussed and on task.

Fast Talking PI poems

We looked at Selina Marsh's poem Fast Talking PI and recorded our own. Here are some below by 9RTd. I was so excited that the students were motivated and expressing themselves! Proud of you 9RTd.





 

Just because... portrait poems

9RTd did some portrait poems- here's one from Henry. Thanks Henry!


Just because I’m brown

Doesn’t mean you’ll have my crown

Doesn’t mean I like being put down

Doesn’t make me your clown

Just because I’m brown

Doesn’t mean I was found

Yous tied my hands and beat me down

Just because I’m brown

I’m not just a voice in your head

To me it all matters about what you said

Doesn’t mean you really cared

Cause all along you thought I was always in the air

Just because I’m brown

Am I just an outsider ?

Do I really matter ?

Can you like me for who I can be ?

Colour doesn’t define who I am.