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Word Art/Found Poetry Project:
This week, we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the inauguration of our new President, Barak Obama. Today, we will reflect on the momentous words of King, Obama, and President Abraham Lincoln by creating word art or found poetry from the text of these leaders' speeches.

Using only the words of King's "I Have a Dream Speech," Obama's victory speech in Chicago, IL, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as inscribed on the Lincoln Memorial, create a poster for this week's celebrations.

You may create any type of word art, word cloud (wordle), or found poem. A found poem is a poem created by taking words and phrases from an existing text and reworking, recombining, and reframing them into a new text with a new meaning.

Please create an artistic but clearly legible poster, as we will display them and then submit them to the 5th graders time capsule commemorating Obama's presidency.

Links:
[|King's "I Have a Dream Speech"] [|Obama's victory speech] [|The Gettysburg Address as inscribed on the Lincoln Memorial]

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