Performing Poetry
Alfred Lord Tennyson - 2 week unit
A two-week literacy unit of work for 4th/5th Grade, containing lesson plans and pupil resources, looking at some of Tennyson's vivid poetic imagery about sea monsters and war heroes. In this unit pupils will:
- read and listen to classic poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- research the historical and literary context of the poems
- engage imaginatively with poetic language
- create their own sea monster poem inspired by 'The Kraken'
- turn a narrative poem into a comic strip
- identify poetic devices in the poem and explain their effects
- express the mood of a poem through performance
- prepare and give a performance to an audience
The poems include 'The Kraken' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
Alfred Lord Tennyson - 2 week unit
A two-week literacy unit of work for 4th/5th Grade, containing lesson plans and pupil resources, looking at some of Tennyson's vivid poetic imagery about sea monsters and war heroes. In this unit pupils will:
- read and listen to classic poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- research the historical and literary context of the poems
- engage imaginatively with poetic language
- create their own sea monster poem inspired by 'The Kraken'
- turn a narrative poem into a comic strip
- identify poetic devices in the poem and explain their effects
- express the mood of a poem through performance
- prepare and give a performance to an audience
The poems include 'The Kraken' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
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