
Suitable for: Years 8-10 | Duration: 3 hours every day for 5 days; 15 hours total
Prerequisites: Poetry for Beginners OR Literary Techniques (one-day crash course)
About:
This course covers poetry analysis and comprehension for students who have already studied a bit of poetry. Students revise the vocabulary for analysing poetry and refine their skills by reading and analysing a range of poems from the 16th century to the present. Students will also practice their essay writing by responding to the poems studied in class.
Student Writing Outcomes:
- Opinion pieces about the poems studied in class; and
- Analytical paragraphs or partial 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;
- Studying poems by Shakespeare, MacNeice, Tennyson, Yeats, Houseman, Dickinson, and more; and
- Having the tools to analyse and write about poems in opinion pieces and essays
Course Outline
- Lesson 1: Techniques revision and Nature Part 1
- Lesson 2: Love and War
- Lesson 3: ‘Song of Myself’
- Lesson 4: Nature Part 2
- Lesson 5: Poetry mishmash