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The Red Umbrella Final Project: Found Poem

1. Choose a significant scene from The Red Umbrella that demonstrates the importance of tolerance.

2. Copy the text of the scene word for word in your Writer’s Notebook.

A touch of the hand and this burning would, on the instant, beautifully reverse itself. Eckels remembered the wording in the advertisements to the letter. Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap; roses sweeten the air, white hair turn Irish-black, wrinkles vanish; all, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh death, the seed death, the green death, to the time before the beginning. A touch of a hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand.

3. Reread what you have written and cross out unnecessary or uninteresting words. Start getting to the heart of the scene!

A touch of the hand and this burning would, on the instant, beautifully reverse itself. Eckels remembered the wording in the advertisements to the letter. Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap; roses sweeten the air, white hair turn Irish-black, wrinkles vanish; all, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh death, the seed death, the green death, to the time before the beginning. A touch of a hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand.

4. Carefully arrange the remaining words and phrases into poetic form...use line breaks and stanzas to create an effective rhythm, and practice reciting your poem until it’s perfect!

The Test of Time...Travel

A touch of the hand

burning

beautifully reversing itself

chars, ashes, and golden salamanders.

Roses sweeten the air

wrinkles vanish

and flee death.

Suns rise in western skies,

set in glorious easts,

moons eat themselves.

Returning to the fresh death

the time before the beginning.

From the merest touch

of a hand.

Found poem inspired by Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder”

5. Your final poem should include a title at the beginning and a credit to its inspiration at the end.

6. In the same document, include a detailed paragraph explaining WHY you chose the scene you did and HOW your poem communicates an important lesson about tolerance. Save your document in one of the following formats: .doc, .rtf, or .pdf.

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