{"id":1327,"date":"2015-10-20T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2015-10-20T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:23:05","slug":"blackout-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"Blackout Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week during 8th grade library visits, students created blackout poems. They are just kicking off their poetry units, and the awesome ELA teachers and I thought this would be a fun activity for them. One of the teachers suggested we try this as she&#8217;d seen some examples on Pinterest. I immediately knew what she was talking about and was excited to give it a try!<\/p>\n<p>I took\u00c2\u00a0some of our weeded\u00c2\u00a0books, cut out the pages, and gave students markers and pens for to create and design their poems. I created a looping slideshow to project on the screen with some examples to inspire them. Here are some of the favorites that were created this week:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/14F18IKWl4hbNYO7OiUZRTY4DwvqXFEY-b3t-ALgGaVg\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" width=\"480\" height=\"389\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to pull some of these together to create a fun display in the hall outside the library, but until then I wanted to share their awesome work here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week during 8th grade library visits, students created blackout poems. They are just kicking off their poetry units, and the awesome ELA teachers and I thought this would be a fun activity for them. One of the teachers suggested we try this as she&#8217;d seen some examples on Pinterest. I immediately knew what she<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1327\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-lessons","category-makerspace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}