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Big Idea: Word Play!
Big Idea: Word Play!
Inquiry Question: How is student voice magnified through creative play between words and images?
Over the course of three weeks, incoming Freshmen created artworks using found language.
Over the course of three weeks, incoming Freshmen created artworks using found language.
vi·sion board
nouns
a collage of images and words representing a person's wishes or goals, intended to serve as inspiration or motivation.
"on her vision board she put a log cabin, a sailboat, a red car, and a man and woman dancing on a white carpet"2.
Blackout Poetry
"Blackout poetry is when you take a written piece of text from a book, newspaper, or magazine and redact words, in order to come up with your very own poetry "
The school library becomes an art studio as students create vision boards and Blackout Poetry as part of Freshman Connection!
The school library becomes an art studio as students create vision boards and Blackout Poetry as part of Freshman Connection!
The school counselor joins in as the students create!
The school counselor joins in as the students create!
Incoming Freshman student creates original artwork.
Incoming Freshman student creates original artwork.
Students create a Blackout Poem out of old book pages!
Keith S. Wilson, Visual Poet: " I’m interested in a sense of play. In many of the understandings of that. Play means wiggle room and I’m interested in that–in one’s placement space allowing for more than one understanding of something. And play implies a sense of freedom and even joy sometimes, which comes sometimes through movement through space. But play can also invoke discipline and intentionality as well, as when one plays an instrument."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist famous for studying 'flow' in sports, describes ‘flow’ as 'being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. [Then] The ego falls away.- Grant Faulkner, Pep Talks for Writers.
” Like critical thinking, blackout poetry is a process of revelation, an uncovering of meaning. Pedagogically, blackout poetry makes students active participants in the construction of knowledge and understanding, one of the core objectives of honors education. The honors classroom then becomes a model for ‘taking intellectual risks’ “-Engaging Honors Students Through Blackout Poetry, Melissa Ladenheim, University of Maine, 2014
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