PART 2

OUR EARTH OUR HOME

What is Poetry
AIM
Students are to examine the purposes of poetry.

DURATION
1 lesson

RESOURCES
this can be found at:
S:\TEACHERS\FACULTIES\ENGLISH\2012\7\Semester 1\Unit 3 Our Earth Our Home

LEARNING PROCESS

LESSON WHOLE-CLASS STUDENT FOCUSED ADJUSTED MODIFIED

BREAKDOWN COMPONENTS COMPONENTS COMPONENTS COMPONENTS
Engage Students discuss what
they know about
poetry. What is
Poetry?

Explore Students go through Students answer the

slides 2-3. questions:
1. What is poetry?
2. How can poetry
help us make
meaning in our
lives?
3. Is poetry stupid?
Why/why not?
4. Can a poem have
more than one
meaning? How?

Explain Go through slide 4

and students copy the
table into their books.
Go through the first
poem on slide 5 the
fog and students fill it
into the table.
Elaborate Students complete the Students get a blank
table for each of the copy of the table.
poems on slides 5 and 6.
Extension Not required.
Homework
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Poem Title What is it What do you A line or

about? like about it? phrase that
you like
Fog Fog on a harbour The description of ‘on silent haunches
fog as being alive and then moves
and moving. on’.

Poem Title What is it What do you A line or

about? like about it? phrase that
you like
Fog Fog on a harbour The description of ‘on silent haunches
fog as being alive and then moves
and moving. on’.

Poem Title What is it What do you A line or

about? like about it? phrase that
you like
Fog Fog on a harbour The description of ‘on silent haunches
fog as being alive and then moves
and moving. on’.