Found Poem ATC swap

After a long semester, I actually learned something! In my Literacy for Secondary Education class, we learned about found poetry, and I thought it would be a cool idea for a swap. A found poem is where you take text that is not already a poem and create a poem from it-- Google "Found Poetry" or "Found Poem How to" and it will give you some good information on how to do it...

The image is of an ATC that I made with found poetry--I took a paragraph from a Stephen King book and cut out certain words to make a quirky, yet interesting little poem. I used rubber stamps and chalk ink for the background, and added (my signature!) stick-on rhinestones.

For this swap, you will make one ATC for each of 2 partners, for 2 ATCs total. Use an actual page from a book, newspaper or magazine article, a piece of junk mail---anything---and cut out the words to create your found poem. You can make it any length that will fit on your ATC, but try to make it at least 10 words. Make a nice background for it, and use embellishments if you want. You could even do something to the text page before you cut the words out: colored pencil, chalk, distress ink, rubber stamp, etc....

For this swap, you will need to have a rating of at least 4.5, with no unexplained 3's and no 1's.