Poetry on theme of childhood 12 poems & 20 lessons (includes Medium Term Plan) - Year 7 / 8 / 9 SOW

SOW contains a range of poetic voices from 19th Century to present day with the following skill focuses:

Engage with a range of poetic voices centred on the theme of childhood
Analyse poets’ language use and infer writers’ meanings
Identify and analyse structural methods used by poets and explain their effects
Begin to consider comparison between poems (writers’ methods/structure/ideas)
Choose judicious quotes – zoom in on language analysis
Use effective annotation
Use academic terminology
Write a thesis statement
Understand how to use poetic structure effectively when writing poetry
Write your own poetry based on memories of your own childhood

MTP attached and all copies of poems also attached as well as a handy anthology containing all poems in the SOW.

Lesson 1 & 2 - Death of a naturalist - Seamus Heaney
Lesson 3 - Pike - Ted Hughes
Lesson 4 - First Sight - Phillip Larkin
Lesson 5 - Walking Away - Cecil Day-Lewis
Lesson 6 - Anecdote for fathers - William Wordsworth
Lesson 7 & 8 - The School Boy - William Blake
Lesson 9 - Making Links
Lesson 10, 11 & 12 - The Three Fates - Rosemary Dobson
Lesson 13 & 14 - The Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
Lesson 15 & 16 - I don’t remember - writing your own poetry
Lesson 17 & 18 - Time Travel - Sharon Olds - writing your own poetry
Lesson 19 & 20 - Mid-term break - Seamus Heaney