Post on 16-Dec-2015
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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
+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
+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
+Elaborate: Mash Up Poetry
+Elaborate: Mash Up Poetry
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