Mentor Monday #3: Poetry Analysis

15/6/2019

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.

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:

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
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No More Boomerang PowerPoint

5-no_more_boomerang_by_oodgeroo_noonucal.pptx
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Charge of the Light Brigade PowerPoint

6_charge_of_the_light_brigade_by_alfred_tennyson.pptx
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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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Credit

The sentence starter models are based on the book The Student Guide to Writing Better Sentences in the Classroom by Ticking Mind. This book is a incredible resource and I can't recommend it highly enough.

I have done a few professional learning workshops and bought units of work from Ticking Mind and they are brilliant resources.

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