Year 7 Poetry – ‘Island Man’ by Grace Nicholl’s - Meaning and Connotations

Year 7 Poetry – ‘Island Man’ by Grace Nicholl’s

Project based lesson which can be done over two lessons or over one lesson with project tasks set as home activities.

The activities include:

• Match the suffix to the root word.
• Create an image board. (For use with Chromebook/laptop/PC’s)
• Comparing images -Spot the differences and write these down in a list.
• Explaining connotations by exploring synonyms and word associations.
• Draw up your own lexical fields for the two topics.
• What is the poem about? Write a short explanation.
• Plenary - share four thoughts.