It was Friday afternoon.
A June, Friday afternoon, with 10 schools days left before the start of summer break.
Add to that, it was Friday the 13th.
I was exhausted as I walked into 605.
Mrs. Lantagne was smiling. She handed me a page ripped out of a book to try “Blackout Poetry” with the class.
I was quickly overstimulated by a sea of happy students wanting to show me their poetry.
Yet, I managed to pull these words from the page.
It was fun! I like this poetry, to pull beautiful words from a page.
S,🌻
Awesome!
Thank you Valerie! You should give it a try! It’s so fun! 🌻🌻
Yes! As a former middle school English teacher, my kids LOVED blackout poetry!
It is SO fun. There are so many ways to be creative with it!
That’s a very creative way to bring poetry closer to students. 😊
Agreed. For some students, Blackout Poetry is a much easier form of poetry to grasp than, say Haiku. Autistic students, as do some of the more sports minded ones struggle with editing from “black and white” thinking to inferencing and visualization.