+ Engaging Junior Secondary Students With Poetry
+ To warm up Blue sky Sky above Above my head Head over heels Heads up…
+ Engaging Junior Secondary Students With Poetry Strategies to support students: See relevance of poetry Understand the connection between words and rhythm Focus on quality writing Develop use of detail in writing Use similes and metaphors Respond to poetry
+ Engage: What is poetry? What does poetry look like? What does poetry sound like?
+ Engage: What is poetry? Sort these poems into poems and ‘non’ poems Sort these poems intro three different groups
+ Engage: How is poetry relevant? Write down 10 lyrics (lines) from at least three different songs. Why do you remember these lyrics best?
+ Airplanes
+ Robot Airplanes
+ Engage: We use poetry at important times in our lives Love Death Weddings Feelings
+ 10 Things I Hate About You
+ Invictus
+ Stop All The Clocks
+ Engage: Poetry Slam
+ Explore: Splatt Poetry
+ Explore: Put Together The Poem midnight forest: Something is alive page where my fingers Beside the clock’s loneliness I imagine else the moment’s And this blank move.
+ The Thought Fox – Ted Hughes I imagine the midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move.
+ Explore: Stupid Love Poem You must write a 4-6 line rhyming love poem that uses at least 4 of the following words: Moon Sun Star Love Forever Beautiful Rose
+ Explore: Riddle Poetry
+ What am I?
+ Explain: Poetic Techniques Similes Metaphors Alliteration Onomatopoeia Rhyme Scheme Syllables Line Break
+ Explain: Similes/Metaphors I am a car Zooming, racing Driving far Twisting, chasing
+ Explain: Onomatopoeia
+ What are all the sounds you hear at the canteen at lunchtime?
+ Elaborate: Metaphor Poetry Description: Action: Simile: Reminds me of: Makes me want to:
+ Elaborate: Found & Borrowed Word Poems Use the cut up words from the newspaper to create a poem The poem must have at least 6 lines Each line can have no more than 8 syllables
+ Elaborate: Mash Up Poetry
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+ Replace at least 10 words from the poem Use at least 3 of the below The poem must make sense: Vampire, werewolf, zombie, darkness, stake, fangs Bite, hunt, fly, growl, howl, eat brains, slay
+ Evaluate Folio of best 3 poems Record poems in powerpoint / photostory Write children’s book Identify and explain examples of poetic techniques in lyrics