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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