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Engaging Junior Secondary Students With Poetry

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

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Engaging Junior Secondary Students With Poetry

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  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 elsethe • 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. Explore: Riddle Poetry • 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. Explain: Onomatopoeia • 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

  27. Elaborate: Mash Up Poetry

  28. 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

  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

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