Grammar For Writing Schemes Of Work: Fiction, Argument And Poetry

Title of Scheme: Writing Poetry Duration: 4 weeks (12 hours) Opportunities to:  Explore how to generate effective vocabulary  Analyse how poets manipulate language and use patterns/structures for effect  Experiment with poetic techniques and structures  Shape, craft, edit and evaluate own poetry Assessed Outcomes: Assessment Foci: Teacher assessment: Write interesting, imaginative and thoughtful texts Students write three poems: a poem creating vivid images by using extended noun phrases; a Kenning Vary sentences for clarity, purpose and effect poem; and a Personification poem. Self assessment: Write with technical accuracy of syntax and Annotation and explanation of effects in one of own punctuation poems. Peer assessment: Select appropriate and effective vocabulary Evaluation of peers’ poems. Teaching Sequence: Activities and Resources Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Exploring word play in Exploring repetition, Exploring line length, Working with a partner to puns, jokes and riddles rhyme, rhythm and enjambement and redraft and shape own alliteration in Night Mail caesura poems Examining noun phrases in descriptive poetry Investigating the effects Using an exploded Revising and presenting of punctuation on sound version of Mirror by final versions of the three Writing a poem using and meaning in Dulce et Sylvia Plath to explore poems written extended noun phrases Decorum Est word associations Annotating one poem to Learning about kennings Reading poems aloud to Experimenting with explain choices and emphasise sound and sentence patterning effects Writing a kenning poem meaning about an animal Writing a personification poem 1.1 Christmas 2.1 Punctuation Range 3.1 Christmas Thank 4.1 Poetry Advice Sheet Cracker Jokes 2.2 Punctuation Jokes Yous 4.2 Playing with Words 1.2 Word Play 2.3 Punctuation 3.2 Punctuation Jokes Guide 1.3 Playing with Functions 3.3 Prose to Poetry 4.3 Designing Writing Words PowerPoint 2.4 Dulce et Decorum 3.4 Playing with Prompts Slide Notes Est (student) Sentence Design 1.4 Writing a Riddle 2.5 Dulce et Decorum 3.5 School Objects list 1.5 An Exeter Riddle Est (teacher) 3.6 Personification 1.6 Noun Phrase 2.6 Dulce et Decorum Poem Prompts Generator Game Est Manuscript 3.7 Personification 1.7 Childhood 2.7 Sound Effects Poem Examples Memories 2.8 Auden’s Night Mail 1.8 Kenning PowerPoint: Examples PowerPoint: PowerPoint: Playing with Words Poetry WW1 Playing with Words PowerPoint: Playing with Words Grammar for Writing Text Line lengths and layout; forms and techniques (kenning, personification, images composed of extended noun phrases); sound patterns (repetition, rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, assonance) Sentence Relative clause; non-finite clause; prepositional phrase; sentence patterns; punctuation range; effects of enjambement and caesura Word Noun; compound noun; noun phrase; adjective; verb (finite, non-finite); adverb; determiner Grammar for Writing Schemes of Work © National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) & Authors Grammar for Writing Schemes of Work © National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) & Authors