Selected Poems of Joy Harjo - Music Center

INQUIRE
Can you find another – maybe better way – to explain the Beginning, Middle and End? Structure? Sequence?
CREATE & PERFORM – Becoming an Expert: The Found Poem
Task: Create a Found Poem from “Remember” and other poems by Native American poets.
Criteria
The Found Poem must have:
Selections from “Remember” and other Native American poems.
A Beginning that starts with an idea or image.
A Middle that adds another idea or image that is different from the first idea or image.
An Ending that blends the two ideas or images together or has one idea/image that is stronger than the other.
Teacher takes video or photographs to document the first creative task, then labels with task or outcomes that the students are performing.
REFLECT - Making Connections
What did you learn about connecting several different ideas to make a new idea? (a new thought?)
ASSESS
In their journals:
Students will:
Describe how their team worked together in order to create their Found Poem.
Write how their team created the beginning, middle and end in their Found Poem.
Enduring Understanding
“Beginning, Middle and End” is found in many forms in our lives and worlds. List three to five.
Teacher:
Documents Found Poetry (in a collection/portfolio).
Labels documentation examples with appropriate student task and/or outcomes.
Notes how the class has progressed in their teamwork efforts from Model Lesson One.
Uses video to document the creative task.
Labels documentation with appropriate student task or outcomes.
VOCABULARY scenario, Found Poem, phrase, poetry, sequence, beginning-middle-end, interpret, meaning
Music Center Anchor Work Model Curriculum Unit: Selected Poems of Joy Harjo.
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