
Suitable for: Years 7-10
Duration: 3 hours every day for 5 days; 15 hours total
About:
This course covers poetry analysis and comprehension. Students learn the vocabulary for analysing poetry, and put these to use by studying and analysing a range of poems from the 16th century to now. There are 28 poems included for study in the course. At the end of the course, students are equipped to analyse a wide variety of poetry, including Shakespearean sonnets.
Student Writing Outcomes:
- Original poetry inspired by the poems studied in class;
- 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, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Donne, Whitman, Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser, Poe, Kipling, Angelou, Henley, and more; and
- Having the tools to analyse and write about poems in opinion pieces and essays
Course Outline
- Lesson 1: Introduction and the Language of Literature
- Lesson 2: ‘We Real Cool’
- Lesson 3: Life, Death, and Between
- Lesson 4: Sonnets
- Lesson 5: Sonnets and Nature