Transition Year English December Creative Writing Unit Christmas Themed

This TY English unit will take 4 - 5 classes to complete end of November to December pending TY activities.

It begins with an Christmas themed unseen poem ‘Trio’ by Edwin Morgan and unseen poetry questions with rough work prompts and a link to an online Scottish audio performance of the poem with BBC link to online T&L resources. There are lined spaces for learners to enter their answers similar to the junior cycle English format.

The next class(es) features two creative writing micro activities with the prompts:

1. Write a short creative piece of writing in which you outline and describe your ultimate Christmas holiday.
2. Write a personal piece of writing in which you outline and describe your favourite Christmas memory of all time. This resource has doodle ‘colour me in’ features and an aesthetic space for TY learners to write their micro essays (1 A4 page) x 2 options.

The following class, gives learners the space to plan their own creative poem with a scaffolded rough work planning space and an aesthetic space to write their poetry drafts.

TY’s could submit the unseen poetry as a timed assessment or the creative writing options or their self written poem as their assessment to submit for their Christmas reports.