Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Altered Books / Blackout Poems

The assignment:
1. Obtain a newspaper article or a page from a book.
2. Find a poem by selecting and circling words in the text.
3. Black out the words that you do not use.
4. Title your work and show it to the world.

On the left is an example of an altered book from the web site Altered Books.
On the right is an example of a blackout newspaper poem from the blackout newspaper poetry website.

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Junius Wright is a language arts teacher at the Academic Magnet High School in Charleston, SC.