AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH BY W B YEATS - GOOGLE SLIDES

This resource is designed to help students understand and appreciate lyrical elegy poem. Through a step-by-step approach, students will learn how to identify and analyze the key features of this poem, including its structure, tone and imagery. The resource includes interactive exercises on a famous lyrical elegy. By the end of the lesson, students will have the skills and knowledge to interpret and appreciate this unique form of poetry.

SESSION 1: POETRY ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
Collaborative Group Tasks:

• Pair-Share - Inferring the meaning of the words and phrases (Exercise 1)
• Ask-Write - Writing the lines that refer to the given ideas (Exercise 2)
• Write-Advance – Identify the poetry elements (Exercise 3)
• Differentiated Tasks - Critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 4)
• Plenary – Answering poetry elements questions (Exercise 5)
  SESSION 2: POETIC DEVICES AND INFERENCE
  Collaborative Group Tasks:
• Pair-Share – Meaning of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 6)
• Ask-Write - Identification and explanation of poetic devices (Exercise 7)
• Write-Advance - Comparing and contrasting the speaker before and after (Exercise 8)
• Differentiated Tasks - Answering differentiated questions (Exercise 9)
• Plenary – Answering poetic devices questions (Exercise 10)
  SESSION 3: SUMMARY, POETRY ANNOTATION AND REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
  Collaborative Group Tasks:
• Pair-Share - Summarizing the meaning of the poem (Exercise 11)
• Ask-Write - Identification of annotation elements (Exercise 12)
• Write-Advance - Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 13)
• Differentiated Tasks - Writing comprehension questions (Exercise 14)
• Plenary - Answering multiple choice questions (Exercise 15)
• Home Learning: Comprehension questions (Exercise 16)