Students from Mrs. Stephens' class listen to poetry.
Students from Mrs. Stephens' class listen to poetry.
Found poetry is a type of poetry that is created by finding poetic words within another text, then arranging them into a poem. Before writing the poems below, students read an article about polar bear cubs, circled the most interesting words, then arranged these words (sometimes adding their own words) to form lines. Students were asked to use the poetic device repetition (intentionally repeating words) when creating these found poems.
Snow Babies
Two little cubs play, tackling.
Cubs can smell a seal 20 miles away.
Cubs learn all the bear lessons they’ll need for their 30-year lifespan.
PS: It will be cool to smell food a long way away!
Born to Hunt
Born to hunt.
Babies need their mother’s thick fat-rich milk.
Born to hunt
by the time they learn to live by themselves
on their own.
Born to hunt.
By early April, when cubs leave
the den for the first time, they already
weigh 20 – 30 pounds.
Hunting Snow Babies
Tackling, tackling, tackling.
Play in the snow.
Mastering their communication.
Growing faster.
Lots of extensive learning.
Smelling as far as 20 miles.
Snatching seals left and right.
Two years before killing by itself.
Learning lessons from its mom.
Snow Babies
The cubs depend on their mom’s lessons.
Mom makes a snow den.
She protected them from the Arctic cold.
They have no teeth.
Eyes are closed.
They don’t have thick fur.
They are as big as a small dog.
They quickly grow by mother’s
fat-rich milk.
They are tackling each other,
learning hunting skills.
Snatch a seal from its breathing hole.
Two Cubs
Two little cubs.
One little cub is a newborn cub.
Weighs 20 – 30 pounds.
They need hunting skills.
Mom teaches cubs how to raid seal dens.
Hunting Experience
Smell a seal.
Mom teaches cubs.
Snatch a seal without being seen.
Raid seal dens.
Cubs have learned.
It’s two years.
Cubs have learned to kill
by theirselves.
Polar Bear Cubs
Baby polar bear cubs.
Eyes are closed.
Their fur is soft and white.
Cubs play together so they can use communication and dominance
and hunting skills.
Cubs need their mother’s protection
so they can stay safe
from wild animals.
Poetry at Summit Drive 