A presentation of the Book Spine Poetry assignment for 7th grade language arts class

1. Book Spine Poetry

2. What is it?
• Type of found poetry
• Arranges titles of books to make a poem
• Poem can be serious or funny

3. Imagine these books are in front of
you…
• Green Eggs and Ham
• Goodnight Moon
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Oh, The Places You’ll Go
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Good Night, Gorilla
• Stone Soup
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

4. Make a book spine poem!
• Start by moving the books around into stacks
• Stack the spines together so the titles are like
the lines of a poem
• Keep moving the titles around
• Find the “lines” that go best together

5. For example
• Story:
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
• Oh, The Places You’ll Go
• Where the Wild Things are

6. For example
• Story:
• Green Eggs and Ham
• Stone Soup
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Could be a conversation:
• Good Night, Gorilla
• Goodnight Moon

7. What is the theme?

8. What is the theme?

9. What is the theme?