Blackout Poetry

Blackout Poetry

Blackout Poetry

  1. First, you need to watch the Prezion Blackout Poetry in the English 9 Poetry Blog tab
  2. Second, you need to download some pages of a PDF copy of a novel – for my example I chose The Hunger Games. You must choose a novel.
  3. Download the PDF to your desktop and print one or two pages to OneNote (preferably the desktop version). MAKE sure you chose Current Page or select the page numbers of a few of the pages of the PDF before you print; otherwise, you will send the whole novel to OneNote.
  4. In One Note you can use the tools from the Draw Tab to ‘blackout’ the words you do not want, and keep the words you want, which form the ‘lines’ of your poem. Choose the colour or colours you want, but make sure you choose an appropriate thickness to blackout the words.
  5. Play around with the words. The interesting aspect of ‘finding’ your poem in the existing text digitally is that you can change it up if you are not happy with what you’ve created. Experiment with imagery and patterns to create meaning.
  6. You will write two poems. They can be ‘found’ in different novels, or the same novel but different pages, or you could even try and ‘find’ your two poems from the same page. The first poem is to be inspired from the theme/s that your independent novel explores. The second poem is to be inspired from the themes in A Midsummer’s Night Dream(love, magic, imagination, dreams, the intangibles, parent’s expectations, not everything can be interpreted through logic and reason).
  7. Once you feel your poems are done, and you are happy with them, save them back to a PDF(watch Ms. Shong’s demo) to your desktop English folder; make sure each poem has a title. Take your favourite one and post it to your blog. On the post, write Blackout Poetry as a title. Then you will write a small introduction to the poem: My poem (title) is inspired by the (novel or play) and explores (theme); it was found on page ___ of the Hunger Games. When you upload it to your blog, choose ‘Add Document’ instead of ‘Add Media.’ Tag it Blackout Poetry.
  8. Have fun! Explore the power of words!
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