During this project, one of the things we did was read the novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. While we were reading, we used sticky notes to mark where the lenses detailed on the previous page occurred. We used these notes a resource when we began writing our In Cold Blood essays; in which we had to argue that one of the lenses was present in the book.
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For the Imaginative Non-Fiction writing piece, we each got into pairs and interviewed each other. We then collected notes about our partners answers to a lists of questions. Then, in following the overall concept of perspective, we then proceeded to write a narrative, or a series of poems about a "nugget" we found in our notes. A "nugget" was any detail, emotion or concept (e.g. being vegan, choice, food, religion).
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For the blackout poetry element of this project, we read the poems, "Let America Be America Again" and "Harlem" by Langston Hughes. After analyzing what we thought the meaning was behind his poetry, we used blackout poetry to construct our own poems from his work. (Fair warning, some of the words in my blackout poem got cut off so I apologize for any difficulty you have reading it).
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