Affiliation:
1. Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Abstract
The chapter investigates the work of a group of ninth grade students during the Covid lockdown as they authored digital blackout poetry in response to reading the novel The Hate U Give in an ESL class in a Norwegian school. The study tells about a learning process dealing with the growth students exhibited working through a blackout poetry approach to make connections between themselves and the lives of black people in the United States. The students read parts of the novel and, as an idea to explore new literacies, were tasked with creating blackout poems. The data of the study consists of students' blackout poems and interviews showing students' choices when manipulating the language of the novel, expressing their own emotions and interpretations. The work creates a link between “the other” and the students, providing them with a forum for self-expression and agency.
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