Guest Post: Blackout Poetry

Student creates an original blackout poem after reading selections from Kleon's Newspaper Blackout.  Photo credit: Jessica Fenster-Sparber

Student receives scaffolded support from Special Education teacher Ms. Nadel.  Photo credit: Jessica Fenster-Sparber

Student works alongside YC Ms. Sigourney and ELA teacher Mr. Villaronga to generate original blackout poetry.  Photo credit: Jessica Fenster-Sparber

On Thursday April 11 in celebration of National Poetry Month, the boys and girls of SCO high school class at Belmont participated in a Blackout Poetry activity. 

Beginning  with activating schema that got them thinking about how to make a remix, the students then watched a short video explaining the process of making blackout poems. 

Finally, using Scholastic Readers and markers,  the students created their own blackout poetry.  Then they pasted their blackout poems on construction paper and all are now displayed in their ELA classroom.--Erica Nadel