1. Lesson Title: Storm on the Island
Entrance task: On scraps of paper add SINGLE WORDS you would associate with a storm. Challenge: use verbs and onomatopoeia.
Now, let’s blutack these to a window to create a concrete poem (concrete poem = a poem that is shaped like its topic.)
Preparing for Learning
At the beginning of any lesson teachers should:
Welcome students at the door
Engage students with an entrance activity and register using the BQM format
Establish a positive learning atmosphere and environment

2. Learning objective: Select quotations to support explanations

3. Starter- what does a storm sound like?
Option one: Watch this: – first 90 seconds.
Option two:
1- have students rub their hands together
2 – have students start clicking fingers, not in time
3 – have students start tapping the table
4 – have students start drumming the table and stamping feet.

4. Reading - comprehension
Choose quotations to support these ideas.
Challenge: Can you identify any language techniques being used here?
Fast finishers can add drawings to help illustrate the poem.

5. Reading - pairwork Challenge: Can you identify language techniques?
As a pair, read the poem again. Note down quotations that link to certain themes.
A:Power of humans
B:Power of nature
C:Threat and fear
Challenge: Can you identify language techniques?

6. Progress check
What have we done so far? What do we still need to do?

7. Comparisons
Of the poems we have studied so far, which would be easiest to compare to Storm on the Island?
Checking out me history

8. How does Heaney present the power of nature? Comparing themes…
Grade 4
In Storm on the Island, Heaney presents Nature as ____
_____________________________________________
However/similarly, in <<another poem>> Nature is presented as ________________________________
So Heaney sees Nature as ____________________ while <<the other poet>> views Nature as _________
Grade 5
Technique
Set skill
-Do not forget to include quotations.
A01: Understanding
AO2: Language, form, and structure
AO3: Context/Reader response/Poet’s intentions

9. Comparing techniques…
In Storm on the Island, Heaney uses ___________ in order to ________________________________
Likewise/On the other hand, in <<other poem>>, the poet uses _______________ to _______________
The most effective is _______ because __________
_________________________________________
Technique
Do not forget to include quotations.

10. Peer review – in blue Has your partner? Included the name of the poets
Give a WWW and EBI from this list.
Grade 4
Has your partner?
Included the name of the poets
Compared THEMES
Included at least two quotations
Punctuated these correctly
Explained the quotations
Used connectives like ‘however’ or ‘on the other hand’
Identified techniques used in both poems
Compared the effect of these
Said which is most effective
Grade 5

11. Why do you think Seamus Heaney chose to write this poem?
Plenary
Why do you think Seamus Heaney chose to write this poem?
Plenary/Progress Check
After the demonstration task(s) teachers should:
Review and share the learning that has taken place in the task (may include Peer/Self-Assessment)
Assess/monitor the progress learners have made against the success criteria and the Learning Objective(s)
Set targets for the next learning sequence
Record rewards and sanctions
Dismiss students according to the BQM
agree
challenge
build