1. + Engaging Junior Secondary Students With Poetry

2. + To warm up Blue sky Sky above Above my head Head over heels Heads up…

3. + 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

4. + Engage: What is poetry? What does poetry look like? What does poetry sound like?

5. + Engage: What is poetry? Sort these poems into poems and ‘non’ poems Sort these poems intro three different groups

6. + Engage: How is poetry relevant? Write down 10 lyrics (lines) from at least three different songs. Why do you remember these lyrics best?

7. + Airplanes

8. + Robot Airplanes

9. + Engage: We use poetry at important times in our lives Love Death Weddings Feelings

10. + 10 Things I Hate About You

11. + Invictus

12. + Stop All The Clocks

13. + Engage: Poetry Slam

14. + Explore: Splatt Poetry

15. + 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.

16. + 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.

17. + 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

18. + Explore: Riddle Poetry

19. + What am I?

20. + Explain: Poetic Techniques Similes Metaphors Alliteration Onomatopoeia Rhyme Scheme Syllables Line Break

21. + Explain: Similes/Metaphors I am a car Zooming, racing Driving far Twisting, chasing

22. + Explain: Onomatopoeia

23. + What are all the sounds you hear at the canteen at lunchtime?

24. + Elaborate: Metaphor Poetry Description: Action: Simile: Reminds me of: Makes me want to:

25. + 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

26. + Elaborate: Mash Up Poetry

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28. + 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

29. + Evaluate Folio of best 3 poems Record poems in powerpoint / photostory Write children’s book Identify and explain examples of poetic techniques in lyrics