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1 © 2012 POETRY SOCIETY & THE AUTHOR/S DISTRIBUTION AUTHORISED FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY [email protected] KS1 KS2 KS3 KS4 KS5 Y7 Y9 • Art • iMAgEry • poEtry oF pLAcE • Quick EXErcisE • usiNg ADJEctiVEs kEy stAgE LEArNiNg oBJEctiVEs POETRYCLASS: FRESH IDEAS FOR POETRY LEARNING FROM THE POETRY SOCIETY www.poEtrysociEty.org.uk At A gLANcE AgE 5–7 7–11 11–14 14–16 16–18 DEscriBE AN oBJEct, pErsoN or sEttiNg iN A wAy tHAt DEscriBEs rELEVANt DEtAiLs AND is AccurAtE AND EVocAtiVE MAkE tELLiNg usE oF DEscriptiVE DEtAiL The poems resulting from this exercise will have the sort of title you might see in an art exhibition, like ‘Shed at the Bottom of a Garden’ or ‘Mr Johnson at Number 35 Hanging Out Washing’. The writer works a little like some painters do too, letting the details appear just because they’re there, and allowing them to speak for themselves, avoiding interpretative statements. getting started Give out copies of the accompanying activity sheet, which asks the students to imagine they are standing looking out of a window they know well. It might be their own bedroom or kitchen window, a window in school or at a friend’s house. using prompts Now ask the students to write one or two short lines in response to the prompts on the sheet, creating the poem as they go along. Allow 30–60 seconds thinking and writing time after each prompt. Developing the activity You can adapt these questions, or add to them, to make the activity suitable for the age and ability of the students. Establish different situations to vary the results. As an extension or homework activity, ask the students to try the exercise again at home, or in situ, actually looking out of the window. INTENSIVE WRITING By pEtEr sANsoM
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1© 2012 POETRY SOCIETY & THE AUTHOR/S
DISTRIBUTION AUTHORISED FOR EDUCATIONAL USE [email protected]
KS1KS2KS3KS4KS5
Y7
Y9
• Art• iMAgEry• poEtry oF pLAcE• Quick EXErcisE• usiNg ADJEctiVEs
kEy stAgE
LEArNiNg oBJEctiVEs
Poetryclass: fresh ideas for Poetry learning from the Poetry society
w w w . p o E t r y s o c i E t y . o r g . u k
At A gLANcEAgE5–77–1111–1414–1616–18
DEscriBE AN oBJEct, pErsoN or sEttiNg iN A wAy tHAt DEscriBEs rELEVANt DEtAiLs AND is AccurAtE AND EVocAtiVEMAkE tELLiNg usE oF DEscriptiVE DEtAiL
The poems resulting from this exercise will have the sort of title you might see in an art exhibition, like ‘Shed at the Bottom of a Garden’ or ‘Mr Johnson at Number 35 Hanging Out Washing’. The writer works a little like some painters do too, letting the details appear just because they’re there, and allowing them to speak for themselves, avoiding interpretative statements.
getting started
Give out copies of the accompanying activity sheet, which asks the students to imagine they are standing looking out of a window they know well. It might be their own bedroom or kitchen window, a window in school or at a friend’s house.
using prompts
Now ask the students to write one or two short lines in response to the prompts on the sheet, creating the poem as they go along. Allow 30–60 seconds thinking
and writing time after each prompt.
Developing the activity
You can adapt these questions, or add to them, to make the activity suitable for the age and ability of the students. Establish different situations to vary the results. As an extension or homework activity, ask the students to try the exercise again at home, or in situ, actually looking out of the window.
intensiVe writingBy pEtEr sANsoM
2© 2012 POETRY SOCIETY & THE AUTHOR/S
DISTRIBUTION AUTHORISED FOR EDUCATIONAL USE [email protected]
Imagine you are looking out of a window you know well. It might be your own bedroom or kitchen window, a window in school or at a friend’s house. Write your responses to the questions about the view from the window in short lines of poetry.
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w w w . p o E t r y s o c i E t y . o r g . u k
View from a window
what do you see straight ahead
of you?
write any line that follows on here, but
include the word ‘sometimes’ or the
word ‘always’.
what is on the left?
something is different today
– what is it? (it needn’t be of
great significance)
Include detail. What is the time of day or the time of year?
Poet’s tiP
Look harder. Note down two more details, one of them so far in the distance you can hardly see it, or maybe can’t see it at all…
Put your ideas together into a poem.
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what else can you see?
