This lesson contains 40 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
Items in this lesson
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What is the definition of poetry??
Slide 2 - Open question
POETRY:
Anything that's not prose or drama
DRAMA: anything that's not prose or poetry
PROSE: anything that's not poetry or drama
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What elements make a poem a poem according to you? Simply give your opinion, there are no right or wrong answers here.
Slide 4 - Mind map
Making a class poem.......
*Pick a topic
*shout out some words
*make stanzas (=the paragraphs in poetry)
* and.... there you are!
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After having discussed what a poem can be or not be, write me a 2-4 line poem about school. Again: there is no right or wrong!
Slide 6 - Open question
What about poems that do use certain techniques? What techniques have you heard of so far?
Slide 7 - Open question
What 'techniques' can you see being used in this poem?
Slide 8 - Open question
Slide 9 - Slide
SOUND IN POETRY
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SOUND:
*alliteration
*assonance *consonance
*onomatopoeia
*rhyme
*rhythm
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Make an example with alliteration
Slide 12 - Open question
assonance
When a vowel sound (within a word, not as the starting letter!)is repeated within a line.
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Make an example with assonance
Slide 14 - Open question
consonance
When a consonant sound (within a word, not as the starting letter!)is repeated within a line.
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Make an example with consonance
Slide 16 - Open question
onomatopoeia
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RHYME
Usually at the END of a line = End rhyme
3 types of end-rhyme:
-FULL rhyme
-HALF rhyme -EYE rhyme
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FULL RHYME:
Mat-cat-sat
see-flee
run-gun
sit-lit-grit
etc...
now, over to you.....
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EYE rhyme
though
tough
plough
dough
Words that LOOK like they rhyme, but actually don't
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HALF RHYME
words that --almost!-- rhyme, but not exactly fully
Sock-dog
bag-snack
heart-hurt
To my Wife
by George Wolff
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POEM TIME!!! Write you own poem here using some of the things you've learned about sound in poetry. Save it, and also upload it through ELO (assignment . No more than 5 lines!
Slide 22 - Open question
Metaphor
Imagery (beeldspraak)
A comparison without using 'like' or 'as'
Does not literally mean what it states E.g.
Right before confronting her teacher she got cold feet.
She became afraid and did not want to do it anymore.
All the world is a stage (is a famous quote by Shakespeare)
Here the world is compared to a stage with actors on it, life is just a play
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'Metaphors'
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Slide 25 - Open question
more examples
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Simile
Comparison using 'like' or 'as.'
The dark clouds covered the city like a thick black blanket.
School is like hell.
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Slide 28 - Video
Try using a simile yourself and be original...!
Slide 29 - Open question
Personification
When something that's not human/inanimate is given human characteristics e.g.:
I love my thesaurus, which always helps me when I need to find a more academic word!
The sun tiptoed across the mountain top.
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Summing up: metaphors, similes and personification
metaphor: a comparison without using 'as' or 'like'
simile: a comparison using 'as' or 'like'
personification: when something that isn't human is given human characteristics
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Make a really original poem with a metaphor or a personification or a simile. Max. 3 lines! No other conventions...;-)
Slide 32 - Open question
STRUCTURE
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STRUCTURE IN POETRY:
* STANZA
*TYPES OF STANZAS
*DIFFERENT POETIC FORMS AND STRUCTURES
*REPETITION
*ENJAMBMENT
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STANZA
A 'paragraph' in a prose text is a 'stanza' in poetry
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stanza length
different sizes of stanza are called different names based on how many lines they have.
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Different poetry forms
*Sonnet *Haiku *limerick
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Repetition
*When words, phrases or complete sentences are repeated for effect.
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Enjambment
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Assignment:
*Read the story 'Rabbit in a Mixer Survives' again
*Read the poem that Roger McGough made of it afterwards
*With a partner grab a pen or pencil and start annotating the poem, referencing to techniques you've learned in class.
*Only after having done that: make a comparison between the poem and the newspaper article. List all the differences and similarities in two columns