Year 7/8 Nature Poetry Complete SOL

This complete SOL includes:

• 19 lessons (all on PowerPoint)
• 5 homework sheets (perfect for use on Microsoft Teams or for printing)
• A mid-term plan explaining the overview for the entire scheme
• All attached worksheets and resources

This nature SOL has been created this year. I wanted to move away from focusing wholly on ‘the greats’ of nature poetry; instead of finding Keats and Wordsworth littering these lessons, you will find a wealth of contemporary and - dare I say it - more engaging poems for our younger students to sink their teeth into.

All of the lessons are presented on Microsoft PowerPoint and are engaging to the class with a use of images alongside a wide variety of tasks to stimulate all learners. To see one example of the scheme for free, please follow this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/esther-s-tomcat-free-yr-7-8-poetry-lesson-12419996

This scheme includes lessons on the following poems:

• First Ice by Andrei Voznesensky
• A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craig Raine
• Umbrella by Rhianna
• The Silence of The Snow by Ruth Velenski
• Esther’s Tomcat by Ted Hughes
• A Bird by Emily Dickinson
• Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
• Nettles by Vernon Scannell
• Digging by Seamus Heaney
• Mosquitoes by Aimee Nezuhkamatetil
• Trees by Joyce Kilmer
• Leisure by W H Davies
• Fog by Helen Cadbury
• Lizard by Martha Close
• The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
• The Shark by E J Pratt