Poetry Imagery Planning Year 6 English Literature Imagery and Personification

Great planning for year 6.

Two weeks worth.

Nice powerpoints.

Sample :

Introduce the new unit and writing outcome.

Read the poem ‘Fog’ by Carl Sandberg together. Write ‘personification’ on the board and discuss what this means.
TTYP – what might it mean?

Agree on a definition for the working wall: Giving human traits to non-human or abstract things. Or making a non-human thing do things that only a human can do. Explain the phrase ‘inanimate object’.

Give out copies of ‘Two Sunflowers Move in a Yellow Room’ by William Blake. Discuss how the sunflowers are given human characteristics – they talk, they feel tired, they want a room with a view!

Return to the poem Fog. In this, it is almost as if Fog is alive – either human or possibly feline (cat-like).

Look again at ‘Two Sunflowers Move in a Yellow Room. ’Underline the words ‘topaz tortoises’.
Ask children what these last lines mean?
Discuss whether it matters if we are not sure of the exact meaning of all the words in a poem. Why might it not matter? Because it is the sound and the rhythm of the words which is as important as their meaning in a poem.
Look up topaz to find its meaning. Does this help us understand what the last two lines mean?