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Visual Assignment: Newspaper Blackout Poetry

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Newspaper Blackout Poetry

Grab a marker and today’s morning edition and start blacking out sections to create a new story. It could be a poem, a picture, or a novella, all drawn from the words of the latest news.

This is a 3 star assignment.

Visual Assignment; Newspaper blackout part 1

Newpaper Blackout Part 2

Newspaper Blackout part 3

Newspaper blackout part 4

Instead of a national newspaper I decided to choose the UMW newspaper The Bullet.  I walked into the academic building Combs and grabbed the first edition of The Bullet that I saw.  It was from September 20, 2012, as shown in image above.  I saw this article on the front page called Study Abroad Provides Choices by Kim Humphries.  The word choices stuck out to me the most and that’s what I decided to base my shot mini poem about.  So I read through the article and found words that would go together that describe the work choices and the process of making choices.  I created this short poem from words in from the newspaper because it is really relating to what I have to do now in my life.  I have to make a lot of decisions (which I’m not very good about) about life and college.  For example I have to make a choice of what I want to major in as well as choosing what I want to do with the rest of my life after college.  I enjoyed doing this assignment because it was something I would not have thought to do.  It just came up when I clicked choose a random one in Visual Assignments.

Here below is a typed out version of my poem I blacked out from The Bullet newspaper:

Choices

Which began,

And ends.

Once in between,

Possibilities,

Encouraged,

Options,

Provide advice.

In the end it will be worth it.

 

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