class 4 english lesson plan date : monday 22nd june · have ever on such frugal pasture fed and...
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CLASS 4 ENGLISH LESSON PLAN
Date : Monday 22nd June Lesson # 7
Topic : Discovering poetry Time : 40 minutes over 2 days
Dragon-flies
Today I saw a dragonfly Come from the wells where he did lie. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings : like gauze they grew; Through crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
(Alfred Tennyson)
Exercise 1 Day 1. Read the two poems and then speak them out loud. Exercise 2. Day 2. 1)In the first poem about a dragonfly, can you find any words that rhyme? 2) If so, can you see any pattern? 3) What do these words mean : husk/mail/gauze/croft 4) Can you think of a similar creature ?
Horses on the Camargue
With white tails smoking free, Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they show Their kinship to their sisters of the sea - And forward hurl their thunderbolts of snow. Still out of hardship bred, Spirits of power and beauty and delight Have ever on such frugal pasture fed And loved to course with tempests through the night.
(extract of poem by Roy Campbell)
Exercise 3. Day 2. 1) In the second poem about
the horses, can you see any rhyming words?
2) Why does the poet compare the horses to the sea?
3) Do you know what frugal means?
4) Which poem did you prefer, and why?
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