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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