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Found Poem: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

A found poem is a method of creating poetry that takes material from one text and, without changing the format, or content, creates a new original text. Your poem does not have to rhyme. Use only words and phrases that you find in the original text.

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Subject: English

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Grade Levels: 9-12

Found Poetry
	Excellent/Exceeds Expectations 100 pts	Good 75 pts	Fair 50 pts	Poor/Unacceptable 25 pts
Focus Focus on a theme from novel	Excellent/Exceeds Expectations The entire poem is related to a theme identified in the novel. The ideas captured in the poem are focused and insightful.	Good Most of the poem is related to a theme identified in the novel. The poem wanders off topic at one point or loses its focus and is too general.	Fair Some of the poem is related to a theme identified in the novel, but the majority of the poem is general or veers off topic.	Poor/Unacceptable Little or no attempt has been made to relate the poem to any of the ideas or themes identified in the novel.
Use of Details	Excellent/Exceeds Expectations The poem uses effective, thoughtful, and insightful details from the original prose passage (novel) that go beyond the obvious or predictable.	Good The poem uses effective details from the original text or prose passage (novel).	Fair The poem uses obvious or predictable details from the original text. Very little effort has been put to reread and understand the text and the ideas conveyed by it.	Poor/Unacceptable The poem does not use details from the original text.
Logical Progression or Sequence	Excellent/Exceeds Expectations The words and phrases from the original text are presented in the correct sequence in which they occur.	Good The words and phrases from the original text are presented in the correct sequence, but 1-2 items are out of order.	Fair The words and phrases from the original text are presented in the correct sequence, but 3-4 items are out of order.	Poor/Unacceptable The words and phrases from the original text are presented out of sequence or with an unclear order.
Organization & Effort	Excellent/Exceeds Expectations Student created 10-15 lines of poetry well constructed text; completed all required materials in a clear, neat fashion.	Good Student created fewer than ten well constructed lines of poetry text, completed all required materials in a clear, neat fashion.	Fair Student created lines of poetry text that lack evidence of proof reading, completed most required materials but lines seems either stretched or redundant.	Poor/Unacceptable Student created lines of poetry text that are unorganized and do not fulfill requirements.
Spelling /Grammar	Excellent/Exceeds Expectations Shows evidence of proof- reading with no grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors.	Good Shows evidence of some proof-reading with only one to two grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors.	Fair Lacks evidence of proof- reading with three or more grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors.	Poor/Unacceptable Lack of proof-reading interferes with ability to understand material.

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found poetry

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