Found Poetry and Magnetic Printer Sheets

I have used this idea several times, with great success.  AT a LoC seminar held in San Jose I attended several years ago (Song of America tour)  I was presented with a great idea. - use primary sources as a foundation for found peotyry.  That seminar took some excerpts from Walt Whitman Civil War dairies, transcribed a few, and allowed attendees to cut words from entires and form found poetry.  I took this idea one step further, and prineted transcribed words on magnetic sheet.  I then cut words from sheet and allow students to form their own poetry on a magnetic bulletin board..  I also print a facsilile of the primary source for students to examine. Here are some of the primary sources I have used

1. 
   
   
   General Douglas MacArthurFarewell Address to Congress

 

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28mcc/034%29%29
transcription at http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/douglasmacarthurfarewelladdress.htm 

2.Letter, Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for his wife, 25 September 1780.

 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28mcc/054%29%29
transcription at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct02.html

3.Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking the physicist and his colleagues for their ongoing secret atomic research, 29 June 1943.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28mcc/083%29%29