This reminds me of "Found Poem's" that were in the Baron Wormser's Teaching Poetry Day by Day. Excellent idea and a great way to introduce and practice phrasing, word choice and poetic form.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Bill IVEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > In trying to come up with a lesson based on a scene in "Chasing Vermeer" > on sounds and poetry, I decided to try some "chance writing" based on John > Cage's ideas. I took a middle grades novel, and cast dice to choose a > number of sentences utterly randomly and form a paragraph. I then recast > dice, choosing words from the paragraph in random order, and then > punctuated my new paragraph. Here's what I, or rather the dice, came up > with (try reading the second one aloud... it's really quite amazing!): > > Not a word came to her mind. No blood was shed. Atik had been raised in > Anchorage and knew very little about hunting, for his father had been a > mechanic. She had never done so before, but now she was ready. "Grizzly!" > she gasped and stopped stone-still as the huge animal rushed onto the ice. > Julie pointed her boots toward Kapugen. The smoke curled up from Miyax's > fire, and caribou strips shrank and died. As she tied the first piece of > cloth to a bend sedge, she looked down on a small pile of droppings. > Presently, the pain in her breast grew lighter and she knew the wolf was > with her. > > Blood, Anchorage been never she, and ice pointed Kapugen. Miyax's caribou > died, cloth on of the was to shed knew. Little had ready as the boots fire > of to down, and her was had his a gasped toward smoke; the piece looked in > wolf a. And for now, the huge shrank a droppings lighter. She mind hunting > done was stone-still, her strips small came father. She "Grizzly!" and > sedge not been so the she presently her raised rushed from first the very > up and bend pain word. Had she a Atik in Julie mechanic, she grew no as > before, tied with breast stopped her animal pile about curled onto, but > knew. > > I'm also thinking of bringing in one of those magnetic poetry sets, and > having them create their own random class poem. It'll be interesting to > see what they think of all this - and how they relate it to their "What is > beauty?" theme question. > > By the way, you do recognize the novel, don't you?! ;-) > > Take care, > Bill Ivey > Stoneleigh-Burnham School > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- Tena _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
