Uncovering Creativity: Blackout Poetry with Jane Eyre

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Blackout Poetry

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to create your own blackout poetry.

What do you already know about blackout poetry?

What is Blackout Poetry?

Blackout poetry is a form of poetry created by redacting or blacking out existing text to leave behind only the words that form a poem.

Examples of Blackout Poetry

Creating Blackout Poetry

Black out parts of the text to leave out the words you'd like to use to form a poem, poetry doesn't have to rhyme. 

Let's create some magic

Use pen or colours to create your own poem, you could use drawings as well. 

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.