SEQUENCING lessons

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Week Lesson Focus and Activity Resources to be used CCP and GC

Lesson 1, 2, 3 - Introduction and forms of poetry Literacy

1 Lesson 1: Poetry slam Asha Christensen Critical and creative thinking
- Engage excitement about poetry try to work at breaking down pre-set Pick up the pencil Personal and social capability
negative feelings towards poetry. Use Ted Talk Poetry Slam video. https://www.youtube.com/watch Arts visual art
- Read aloud a poem introduce 3 step approach read once to read and ?v=rtnEnEqjk0E&list=PLJbHvzUQw
infer, read twice to think about whats happening, read third time to 216z8zMuLfRRTPwv6vCgYeSr
think about what I could do to extend or expand on idea
- Ask students to read the Pick up the pencil poem read 3 times and I am Poem template appendix
respond to each question.
- Introduce poet centre poems available for silent reading choices
Lesson 2: Wes Magees, How to Write
Poems
- Start exploring different forms of poetry start with I am Poem
construction (pre-assessment of current skills)
Wonder boxes filled with
- Model how to complete an I am Poem walk through line by line use
different interesting objects
self as example
- Students to complete own I am Poem keep example up on board to
Diamante poem template
help students who are unsure.
- When finished template check with teacher can begin writing good
copy in book when checked

Lesson 3:
- Wonder box introduction
- Form: Diamante poem for comparing two objects from wonder box
(template in appendix)

Lesson 4, 5, 6 Different forms of poems and word play Wes Magees, How to Write Literacy
2 Lesson 4: Poems Critical and creative thinking
- Introduce imaginative poetry as a form. Introduce In the Hall poem in Personal and social capability
How to Write Poems (p. 22). https://www.tes.com/teaching-
- To get students thinking imaginatively, students to find an everyday resource/examples-of-different-
 object in classroom and make a list of things it could be (a pencil as a types-of-poetry-6289798
rocket/prehistoric fossil plant).
- Students to write an imaginative poem make an imaginative tour of a
deserted mansion, turning up to school one day early from holidays or a
birthday party of a funny aunt. 3 verses (can be free verse or rhyme
chosen by student).

Lesson 5:
- Introduce Haiku poems. Introduce rules of poem, with certain amount
of syllables in each line
- Model how to write a haiku ask students to help choose 5 objects from
classroom. Use these 5 objects to make a haiku.
- Stress haiku poems do not rhyme.
- Students to write own haiku poems can use objects from
classroom/wonder box as inspiration, or use topic like pets or sport as
inspiration
- If completed, students to type Haiku poem onto computer and source
images suited to the poem.

Lesson 6:
- Change poet centre poet in focus Shel Silverstein
Using Jabberwocky students to identify language features they know
(rhyme, alliteration, assonance, neologisms, spoonerisms, nonsense
words) as pre-assessment of knowledge of language features. Students
will get a different poem and identify the language features they see. Use
pre-assessment to guide/modify future lessons depending on
knowledge
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Lesson 7, 8, 9 Word play Lewis Carrolls, Jabberwocky Literacy
3 Lesson 7: https://www.poetryfoundation. Critical and creative thinking
- Continue exploring word play focus on spoonerisms org/poems-and-
- Define spoonerisms the reversal of initial or other sounds of words poets/poems/detail/42916
(dictionary.com).
- As a class on the board, look at Runnys Jip Bump. Look for examples of Wes Magees, How to Write
 where initial or other sounds have been changed with other words. Poems
Example quimble and nick have been changed from nimble and quick.
- Students to write their name as a spoonerism (change sound of first
name and second name). Pair share the changes. Then complete page of Shel Silverstein, Runnys Jip
spoonerism words in short sentences. Bump
- Exit card- define spoonerism, give example. http://poetryshelsilverstein.wee
bly.com/runny-babbit.html
Lesson 8;
- Focus on spoonerisms Shel Silverstein, Runny and
- As a class, study Runny and Dankee by Shel Silverstein highlight words Dankee
that have had sounds switched with other words (modelling how to do http://poetryshelsilverstein.wee
this for students) bly.com/runny-babbit.html
- Students work in pairs on The Funny Bamily by Shel Silverstein and
highlight spoonerism words. Shel Silverstein, The Funny
- Students to answer questions; what is happening in the poem? How Bamily
does the poem make you feel? What effect do the spoonerism words http://poetryshelsilverstein.wee
have on the poem? How is the poem organised? bly.com/runny-babbit.html

Lesson 9: Wes Magees, How to Write

- Change poet centre: Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) Poems
- Introduce neologisms as a word play feature.
- Define neologisms a new word or meaning or use of word to make Dr Seuss books
new word (dictionary.com)
- As a class look at If I Ran the Zoo by Dr Seuss. Listen/watch video If I Ran the Zoo reading
of reading, and find examples of neologisms. Write examples on https://www.youtube.com/watc
board. h?v=S9FibHpCjRY
- Neologism hunt search Dr Seuss poems for neologisms. Sort Neologism Hunt template
neologism words as adjective, noun or verb, or unclear of use.
- Create own neologism word use word in speech, give definition, Neologism creation word
use in sentence, illustrate it template
- Exit card definition and example of neologism
 Lesson 10, 11, 12, 13 Word play and music as poetry Soma Mukherjee, How to write a Literacy
4 Lesson 10: nonsense poem Critical and creative thinking
- Focus on nonsense words as word play https://somkritya.wordpress.co Personal and social capability
- Look at Jabberwocky (used in lesson 4 as pre-assessment to word play) m/2012/07/30/how-to-write-a- Arts music and drama
- Look at first verse as class identify nonsense words. nonsense-poem/
- In pairs, look at entire poem and identify all nonsense words. Students
to answer questions; what is happening in the poem? How does the
poem make you feel? What effect do the nonsense words have on the
poem? How is the poem organised?
- Discuss with students The trick behind nonsense poetry, including
"Jabberwocky," is that the verse is composed largely of words from a
language totally made-up by the poet (Penandthepad, 2017).

Lesson 11:
- Change poet centre
- Introduce music as poetry concept. Use song Tale as old as time from Lyrics of Tale as old as time
movie Beauty and the Beast. Play for students. from Beauty and the Beast, Get
- Model presentation of lyrics as poetry. back up again from the movie
- Discuss similarities between poetry and lyrics. Trolls, Im still standing from
- Use lyrics to find poetic language features model on board the movie Sing, or How far Ill
- Students to choose one of three songs to work in pairs on Get back up go from the movie Moana.
again from the movie Trolls, Im still standing from the movie Sing, or
How far Ill go from the movie Moana. Music lyrics sourced by students

Lesson 12: Technology for recording

- Students to bring favourite song lyrics to class talk about presentations
appropriateness.
- Students share lyrics with pair as if they were reading poetry. Wes Magees, How to Write
- Students to use example from last lesson to find poetic language Poems
features in their lyrics
- If have time - video reading favourite lyrics to upload to class blog.

Lesson 14, 15, 16 - Individual construction Summative task in lesson 6 Literacy

5 - Plan, draft, edit and produce their I am Poem for collection in class Critical and creative thinking
 anthology. Personal and social capability
- To go over the three lessons from beginning of task to end.
Provide students with opportunities to perform poems/final products.