{"id":198,"date":"2025-10-06T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whitenessp7\/?p=198"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:57:14","slug":"blackout-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whitenessp7\/2025\/10\/06\/blackout-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-198 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whitenessp7\/2025\/10\/06\/blackout-poetry\/win_20251001_09_17_36_pro\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whitenessp7\/uploads\/sites\/3634\/2025\/10\/02071416\/WIN_20251001_09_17_36_Pro-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whitenessp7\/2025\/10\/06\/blackout-poetry\/win_20251001_15_20_48_pro\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whitenessp7\/uploads\/sites\/3634\/2025\/10\/02071435\/WIN_20251001_15_20_48_Pro-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whitenessp7\/2025\/10\/06\/blackout-poetry\/win_20251001_15_21_25_pro\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whitenessp7\/uploads\/sites\/3634\/2025\/10\/02071437\/WIN_20251001_15_21_25_Pro-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whitenessp7\/2025\/10\/06\/blackout-poetry\/win_20251001_15_22_11_pro\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whitenessp7\/uploads\/sites\/3634\/2025\/10\/02071439\/WIN_20251001_15_22_11_Pro-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week we made blackout poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Blackout Poetry is when you take a (printed out) page from your favourite book (or a random book) and make a story from the words!\u00a0 We used WW2 novels to link with our topic.<\/p>\n<p>How you do this type of poetry is, go along the lines choosing the words that most stand out to you. Then you eliminate words slowly forming it into a creative poem (it could be about anything you like).<\/p>\n<p>This was a fun activity to help us create poems, help us use our imaginations and make us think very carefully about vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>We then decorated them anyway we wanted.\u00a0 We had a variety of artwork on the poems including: machines, planets, emojis and spiders!<\/p>\n<p>By Merryn Burgess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This week we made blackout poetry. Blackout Poetry is when you take a (printed out) page from your favourite book (or a random book) and make a story from the words!\u00a0 We used WW2 novels to link with our topic. 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