SYMPATHY BY CHARLES MACKAY - READING POETRY - GOOGLE SLIDES

These google slides are designed to help individuals improve their poetry comprehension skills. Through interactive activities, explanations and examples, learners will explore various elements of poetry such as meter, rhyme and figurative language, and develop their ability to analyse and interpret poems.

This download includes:

SESSION 1: POETRY ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
Discussion:

• Poetry Forms (Scaffold Notes 3)
• Poetry Structures (Scaffold Notes 4)
• Poetry Analysis Guide (Scaffold Notes 5)
• Poetry Analysis Template (Scaffold Notes 6)
  Collaborative Group Tasks:
• Identification of Poetry Elements (Exercise 1)
• Critical Appreciation of the Poem (Exercise 2)
• Diary Entry (Exercise 3)
  Differentiated Tasks - Planning to write a poems (Exercise 4)
  Plenary – Selecting correct options (Exercise 5)

SESSION 2: POETIC DEVICES IN POETRY AND THEIR USAGE
Discussion:

• Comparison Devices (Scaffold Notes 8)
• Sound Devices (Scaffold Notes 9)
• Figures of Speech (Scaffold Notes 10)
• Poetic Devices Prompts (Scaffold Notes 11)
  Collaborative Group Tasks:
• Meaning of the expressions in poem (Exercise 6)
• Identification of poetic devices (Exercise 7)
• Explanation of the Poetic devices as used in the poem (Exercise 8)
  Differentiated Tasks - Creating poems (Exercise 9)
  Plenary – Comprehension questions (Exercise 10)

SESSION 3: POETRY ANNOTATION AND REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
Discussion:

• Annotation Guide (Scaffold Notes 13)
• Annotation Template and Prompt (Scaffold Notes 14)
• Explanation Prompts for Figures of Speech (Scaffold Notes 15)
  Collaborative Group Tasks:
• Summarising the meaning (Exercise 11)
• Identification of annotation elements (Exercise 12)
• Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 13)
  Differentiated Tasks - Analyzing poems (Exercise 14)
  Plenary - Online Quiz