Last semester I had a excellent opportunity to work with Ms. Reed, an 8th grade teacher at Auburn Jr. High. During my observation there, she did a wonderful activity with poetry called blackout poems. Her inspiration for the lesson came from Austin Kleon who does Newspaper Blackout poetry on his blog. Ms. Reed explained to her class the process of selecting words from the newspaper articles and coloring in the ones they didn't want to include to form their personal poem. This also goes hand in hand with an activity my professor modeled with "found poetry." Similar idea where students bring in found materials such as labels, to-do lists, etc and change the spacing, line breaks, etc to create a poem.
These blackout poems worked wonderfully with the 8th graders and now I find myself scratching over articles from time to time. Also I want this shirt - I mean, how awesome would that be for casual Fridays?
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