1 h/v literature: poetry

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Literature

Poetry

Reading

Read the poem on page 137 of the Student Book.

Write down all the words you don't know the meaning of.

Choose the best title

Country life

My favourite day

The window

Where do you think the writer lives?

How do you think the old man feels? Why?
Example: He feels ... because ...

The word 'frame' rhymes with 'again'.
Find two more words in the poem that (nearly) rhyme with 'again'.

There are four lines in a verse.
How many verses are there in the poem?

Find two examples of repitition in the poem - where the writer repeats a word or a phrase.

Do you like reading poetry? Why / Why not?

Words that rhyme

Try to complete each of the following verses by finding a word that rhymes with the last word of the second line.

I dreamed I was riding a zebra

with curly pink hair on his head.

And when I woke up in the morning…

Words that rhyme

If I had a dollar

I know what I’d do.

I’d go the mall and…

Write your own poem

1) Choose a topic.

2) Write two verses of four lines.

3) Think of a title

4) Choose a rhyming scheme: AABB or ABAB

5) Hand in your poem in the Classroom