I work as a high school teacher and teach across four subject areas: English, English as an Additional Language, Humanities and Creative Writing. I have been teaching for six years and each year is getting easier, mostly because I have now taught across all year levels 7-10 and subject areas and have created resources to support my teaching.
In the first five years of teaching more than 50% of teachers leave the teaching profession. I came dangerously close to becoming a part of this statistic after numerous burn outs throughout my first four years. I want to do something to change this and so every Monday I will be a mentor by sharing my teaching resources and classroom tips.
Creating resources is where I get to put to use my creativity and my writing background and I want them to have a larger audience. Feel free to share, use and adapt my resources.
In the first five years of teaching more than 50% of teachers leave the teaching profession. I came dangerously close to becoming a part of this statistic after numerous burn outs throughout my first four years. I want to do something to change this and so every Monday I will be a mentor by sharing my teaching resources and classroom tips.
Creating resources is where I get to put to use my creativity and my writing background and I want them to have a larger audience. Feel free to share, use and adapt my resources.
Poetry Analysis
This unit takes students through the process of reviewing poetic techniques, learning about what a poetry analysis is, analysing three poems and includes scaffolds to help them write their analysis, and a modified scaffold for students who need extra support.
The three poems are:
Included are PowerPoints that take students through the background context and include information about the poets.
The three poems are:
- Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage
- No More Boomarang by Oodgerie Noonuccal’
- Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Included are PowerPoints that take students through the background context and include information about the poets.
Out of the Blue PowerPoint
| 4-out_of_the_blue_by_simon_armitage.pptx |
No More Boomerang PowerPoint
| 5-no_more_boomerang_by_oodgeroo_noonucal.pptx |
Charge of the Light Brigade PowerPoint
| 6_charge_of_the_light_brigade_by_alfred_tennyson.pptx |
Poetry Analysis Booklet
Learning Intentions:
- To establish our understanding of poetry
- To learn poetic techniques
- To understand what is poetry analysis
- To analyse and interpret an extract from Simon Armitage’s poem ‘Out of the ‘Blue’
- To write out an analysis of poem Out of the Blue Poetry using scaffold
- To write a poetry analysis of Out of the Blue poem using a modified scaffold
- To analyse and interpret Oodgerie Noonuccal’s poem ‘NO MORE BOOMERANG’
- LTo write out an analysis of the poem ‘No More Boomerang’ using scaffold
- To write out poetry analysis of poem No More Boomerang using a modified scaffold
- To analyse and interpret ALFRED LORD TENNYSON’S poem ‘CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE’
- To write out a poetry analysis of poem Charge of the Light Brigade using scaffold
- To write out a poetry analysis of poem Charge of the Light Brigade using a modified scaffold
| poetry_analysis_booklet.docx |
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