Author: Kelsey Taormina

Statue of Liberty

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Statue of Liberty National Monument

In this activity, you will create a blackout poem using Emma Lazarus’s famous poem, “The New Colossus.” Consider what liberty means to you. Then, circle the words that stick out to you using the poem below. Finally, shade out the rest of the poem, leaving your circled words, and you will end up with your piece of blackout poetry!

The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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