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Engaging Junior Secondary Students With Poetry

+To warm up

Blue sky Sky above Above my head Head over heels

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+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