Lesson Objective

1. Lesson Objective • To read poetry by significant Welsh authors • To identify metaphors and similes in poetry • To identify personification • To write own poems using some of the above techniques

2. Winter Riddle Crocus strikes a match. Birds Print on the lawn their lines of words. Trees wear fur. Wire has learnt to knit. Sheep aren’t white. Grubby as clwt In need of bleach, they’re at the gate, Waiting for hay and grumbling that we’re late. Touch-down and lift-off, look, a crow’s Been making angels in the snow. My car has grown A woolly cover, yours a crown. The door-mat’s disappeared. The hedge has grown a beard. The bin’s a cornet. Laurel leaves Are spoonfuls. Along the eaves A row of glossy swords. Starlings on the wires strumming chords. GILLIAN CLARKE

3. Personification If an object is described as a person or an animal we call it personification. The object or thing is treated as a person e.g The pen crawled across the page Find examples in the poem and gather them below Winter Riddle

4. A Change of Snow The objects in the poem have all been transformed by a fall of snow. List the objects and put what happens to each one of them. Add a few more objects of your own.

5. A Change of Sun List objects associated with summer and complete the chart to see how the changes they might make

6. What have we learnt? • To read poems by Welsh authors • To examine personification in poetry • To write poetic couplets for our class poem