Blackout Poem creation
Hello, blog this week I wanted to share my black out poem. It’s more of a colourful out poem because I didn’t use the color black at all. This was a very fun assignment. I liked how the words I circled really stood out in each of my drawings. I first started with reading through the article and circling in pencil which words really stood out to me. What I mean by stood out to me was main idea words. There was a lot of talk about trauma and need for support. I also tried to include my own words and drawings to represent what the rest of the text was talking about. I wrote words like support in red to make eat stand out and make it important. I used the word light and coloured it colours of the rainbow because the article talks about how others can feel excluded as well not just black people. I drew a picture of a hand because there should be a fight to stop this kind of teaching. I drew a sad face to show the down feeling of having trust in a teacher and they discriminate you. I printed a picture of a person with puzzle pieces as their brain to really show that each piece of information or things we are taught go together to create what we think and how we feel. All of these pictures added to what I took away from this article. I added color to each page instead of just black out because I think it showed interest and more of a pop to the words not covered.
Hello Hanna! I love your creative twist on the blackout poem assignment! The words you circled and the drawings you made really emphasized the message you were trying to portray. I completely agree with the statement you made about how the information we learn all goes hand in hand and it affects the way we feel and view things. The printout of the puzzle pieces creating the head demonstrate that perfectly! I’m still in awe of your creativity because I never thought of doing that in my own black out poem. I agree, as future educators we should create a safe space for ALL students in our classroom and avoid any sort of bias towards children. Reading the article, “Ending Curriculum Violence” by Stephanie P. Jones, really made me realize that these experiences really stay with children. It could even follow them into adulthood and that is so damaging. Practicing mindfulness is important especially for educators.
ReplyDeletehello Lizbeth, first I wanted to say thank you for commenting on my post. i appreciate how you said we need to create a safe space for our students and that's so true. our students will learn better and retain more information if they feel safe and included in the classroom. i like the article you had mentioned it says a lot about how us as educators can impact a child life forever. i appreciate you taking the time to see the creative work i put into this assignment.
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ReplyDeleteHello Hanna! You did a wonderful job creating a beautiful and powerful poem!! I enjoyed reading about the process of making your poem and seeing how your ideas came together. I love how you incorporated symbols into your blackout poem. These symbols and words help clarify and define the message of the poem and help make it much more meaningful! I was also inspired to incorporate symbols and color into my poem, so I pasted my blackout poem onto a Progress Pride flag that I created out of construction paper. I chose this flag because it represents inclusiveness and as educators we must ensure that we support all of our students. I loved comparing our poems and seeing how we both highlighted some of the same sections from the article. Overall, we both understood that we must do better as educators so we can better support our students.