3 Siblings Killed


I chose this article titled “Driver who hit and killed 3 siblings saw flashing lights, but didn’t realize it was a school bus picking up the children: Police” because the story made me mad and upset. The article is about how a woman driving a pickup truck hit and killed three children getting on their school bus in the morning. The driver claimed that she didn’t realize that the flashing lights were a school bus and that she needed to stop. The driver’s statements are inaccurate because she was obviously distracted by something and it was too late before she realized she had made a horrible mistake.

I chose to cross out the words from the title “didn’t realize” because this is a false statement that the driver used as an excuse for hitting the children. Also, I included short phrases from the article in order to make sure the poem resembled the entire article and to make the poem more intense through word choice. For example, I used “classmate and neighbor” to create an emotional connection in my poem. I also used the quote “died at the scene” to show how terrible the tragedy was. While creating my found poem I learned that found poems are a good way to express your own style of writing. You can take the words and arrange them however you want to create any type of message you want to display. My message was that the innocent children were killed because one driver wasn’t paying attention.

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  1. I read this article on facebook a few days ago and it also made me upset. I like how you crossed out the suspects statement of “didn’t realize” because you believe that isn’t true, which I also believe. By doing that you put into perspective how the initial article may have gave off what should be a false sense of empathy for the truck driver. Also, the phrases you chose summarize the event perfectly by giving the necessary details such as the time and ages of the siblings.

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