During our novel study of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 we made remix poems. One of the powerful elements of this activity for student writers is that they use language and syntax already available to them. Instead of having to think of a topic or language to explore a topic in a poem, students use the pre-existing texts in front of them to write. Re-mix poetry is a sort of literary collage.We cannot create a thing from nothing, and this activity is a clear example of how we overtly rely on pre-existing texts and ideas to develop our own creations.

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