Unseen Poetry Lesson 4

Following on from this introduction to unseen poetry:

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/unseen-poetry-lesson-1-12130945

This is the fourth lesson in the series. It focuses on Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘The London Breed’ and is aimed at middle-ability learners.

It includes:

1. Do Now Task: A multiple- choice quiz on London
2. Answers slide
3. Revising terms relating to meter in poetry (see list below)
4. Link to Zephaniah reciting his poem
5. Introduction to iambic tetrameter
6. Identifying iambic tetrameter in ‘The London Breed’ paired/group task (teacher answers included)
7. Learning Review

Estimated time: 1 hour

This lesson can stand alone but assumes some pre-teaching or understanding of the following concepts:

• vowel
• syllable
• stressed syllable
• foot
• trochee
• iamb
• meter
• iambic pentameter
• trochaic tetrameter