
Suitable for: Years 8-11 | Duration: 3 hours every day for 5 days; 15 hours total
Prerequisites: Poetry for Beginners OR Intermediate Poetry OR a Shakespearean drama course
About:
This course builds on the comprehension and analytical skills introduced in Poetry for Beginners and Shakespearean drama courses. In this course, students will focus on their analysis of poems and their essay writing. We’ll read poems by poets on the HSC syllabus, including Emily Dickinson, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Slessor, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes.
Student Writing Outcomes:
- Analytical paragraphs or partial essays about the poems studied
- Full essays about the poems studied
Student Learning Objectives:
- Understanding and applying an extensive list of techniques for poetry analysis;
- Critically evaluating a range of poems based on structure as well as meaning;
- Considering the link between a writer’s context and their work;
- Having the tools to analyse and write about poems in essays
Course Outline
- Lesson 1: Emily Dickinson
- Lesson 2: Seamus Heaney
- Lesson 3: Kenneth Slessor
- Lesson 4: Sylvia Plath
- Lesson 5: Ted Hughes