POETRY:
An cried
strange tiger
unusual clown a man
upside down mountain disappointed
snowy
following jumped turquoise
above ended
tiny the in
In your
groups,
make up a
short poem
with 10 of
these
WHAT POEMS DO YOU REMEMBER
FROM WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG?
Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Pat it and prick it and mark it with a 'B', And put it in the oven for Baby and me.
Doctor Foster
Went to Gloucester In a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle Right up to his middle
And never went there again!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
POETRY
In today’s lesson we will look at different types of poetry
We will:
Understand how to answer the question ‘ What is a
haiku?’
•Learn some key words we need to know before we
study poetry
A Haiku is a poem from Japan. What makes
Haikus special is not that they rhyme, but that they have a special pattern of syllables.
Questions:
How many syllables are there in your full name?
How many syllables in this line?
HAIKU INVESTIGATION
What you have to do:
In pairs, use your example Haiku to decide whether the statements are true of false.
MORE HAIKUS…
You moths must leave now; I am turning out the light and going to sleep.
The leaves fell slowly
To the unforgiving ground Too soon-summer’s gone!
Going yesterday
Today, tonight…the wild geese Have all gone, honking.
Tonight the moon shines bright; and shows the owls
eating a meal in the field.
Bee’s buzz slowly on the roses they take the nectar
for their honey in their hive.
Ivy grows so fast
SO NOW WE KNOW…
A Haiku:
Is a 3 line poem
has 17 syllables , 5-7-5 usually does not rhyme
has one theme and is about a single moment within it.
EXTENSION: IMPROVE YOUR HAIKU
To really develop your skills:
1.Consider the vocabulary you are
using.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES REVISITED
Can you answer the following questions:
What is a Haiku?
What is a syllable?
How many syllables in a Haiku?
NARRATIVE POETRY: BALLADS
Robin Hood Cockerel
LESSON 2
BALLADS
What is a ballad?
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Ballads have always had a strong connection with music. They were composed not simply as poems to be read but as songs to be sung or danced to or even worked to.
Although there were professional ballad makers and singers, the
author of a ballad might be almost anyone - a farmer, an innkeeper,
a shepherd, a tinker, a travelling pedlar.
SCANDALOUS BALLADS
About 400 years ago a new kind of ballad
developed. Booksellers and printers realised that these poems were very popular and soon ballads were printed and sold by the thousand in both
town and country. Travelling pedlars and street ballad mongers, made their living by them and, to sell more copies, they concentrated on crime,
INTERESTING BALLADS
This ballad tells the scandalous story of
Robin Hood.
Another scandalous ballad is ‘the sad story
of Left and Ned’. See if you can arrange
LESSON 3: BALLADS
Lesson Objective: to learn the conventions of a ballad
We will read two ballads
We will understand their conventions
KEY FEATURES OF A BALLAD
Your task:
1) Read through your ballad.
2) Make notes on the key features of your ballad.
You may want to think about: - What happens?
- Any patterns you find?
SO….WHAT IS A BALLAD?
Tells a story
May end with a moral
May use repetition
A strong, regular Rhythm
Rhyme scheme
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT:
What happens in the ballad? Who are the main characters? What sort of narrative is it?
Is there a message in the ballad? What is the writer trying to teach us?
Are certain words, phrases or lines repeated? Pick out some examples. Is there a pattern to these repetitions? Try to describe the pattern.
Try to describe the pace of the ballad. Does the pace change at different points in the story? Why? What is the mood of the ballad?
Is there a pattern to the rhyming words? Try to describe this pattern and say where these rhyming words occur.
TASK 2
In pairs, finish your analysis of the ballad.
Join a pair that has the other ballad and compare. What are the similarities and differences?
In your groups, look at your homework ballads.
Choose one to analyse and look for the conventions of a ballad within it.
HOMEWORK:
Find information about highwaymen
LESSON 4: SIMILIES AND METAPHORS THE SEA
WHAT IS A SIMILE?
A comparison where you use as or like.
WHAT IS A METAPHOR?
A direct comparison where you say something is
something else.
Eg. The teacher is a witch
THE SEA
Read this poem and identify similes and metaphors:
The Sea is an awakening monster, Rousing from the depths of below.
He starts lashing his tail like a madman As the waves of the sea start to grow.
The sea is a frightening creature As fierce as a boxer in a fight, Waiting to knock you out
THE SEA
Watch the clips of the sea and make notes about how you could describe them.
What does it sound like?
What does it smell like?
PERSONIFICATION
CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THE POET IS PRETENDING SHE IS?
Tall and blue true and open
So open my arms have room for all the world
for sun and moon for birds and stars
Yet how I wish I had the chance to come drifting down to earth— a simple bed sheet
covering some little girl or boy just for a night
SKY
Tall and blue true and open
So open my arms have room for all the world
for sun and moon for birds and stars
Yet how I wish I had the chance to come drifting down to earth— a simple bed sheet
covering some little girl or boy just for a night
but I am Sky that’s why
NARRATIVE POETRY PERSONIFICATION
Silver
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in silver feathered sleep
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Walter de la Mare
Task:
Draw a picture of the silver moon which includes their human
YOUR TURN
Choose something large from nature: the sun, the moon, the ocean, a blue whale, a sunset, a bolt of lightning etc.
Close your eyes and imagine that you are that thing. Then think of four words that best describe yourself as
that thing.
Begin your poem with those four describing words.
WRITE YOUR OWN PERSONIFICATION POEM
Think of what they do best as that thing from
nature. For example, the moon might smile down at people or send silver light shining through a
child’s window.
Now, write about it. Do not say what you are until the very end of the poem.
The ending might be a simple statement revealing their identity:
RHYME
There are many different types of poetry.
We can tell what type of poem it is by looking at its ‘rhyme scheme’.
Common meter rhyme goes a-b-a-b
There once was a big brown cat. A
That liked to eat a lot of mice. B
He got all round and fat. A
