Week+Feb18-22

Students are working on a poetry unit based on an anthology of Pre-1914 poems. In this unit, students will be expected to come to an understanding of how poetry can challenge our views of the world. The students will analyse a variety of poems and identify and explain how poets use form, structure, and language to convey their ideas successfully. __**Week Feb18 - 22**__ **//Monday//** 18th – Period 7 Students work on Ben Jonson’s poem ‘On My First Sonne’, analysing vocabulary and language. Students will annotate the poem and reflect on poetic devices and themes. **//Tuesday//** 19th – Period 4 Students work on William Bulter Yeats’ poem ‘The Song of the Old Mother’, analysing vocabulary and technical features. Students will annotate the poem and reflect on poetic devices and themes. Homework: work on response journal preparing **//Wednesday//** 20th – Period 1 Students work on William Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Affliction of Margaret’. Students will annotate the poem and reflect upon poetic devices and themes. **//Thursday//** 21st – Period 6&7 Period 6: students work on William Blake’s poem ‘The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found’. Students annotate the poem and reflect upon poetic devices and themes. Period 7: Sustained Silent reading in the library. Homework: students research Blake ‘Songs of Innocence’ and ‘Songs of Experience’. **//Friday//** 22nd – Period 1 Students compare the two poems by Blake with one other poem from the Pre-1914 Poetry Bank, which also deals with fathers or mothers. Oral presentation to the group.
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