Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has honoured Queen Elizabeth II with an acrostic poem entitled ‘Floral Tribute’.
This PPT and handout (in doc and PDF) are a whole hour’s lesson plan ready to reach.
Starter: Discuss and distill: what do you know about Queen Elizabeth?
Task: Pass out the handout to the students. There are 10 versions of the poem, each missing 10 different words. Students will need to work as a team to complete the poems as quickly as they can. Teachers print off or share this document with the class electronically to annotate.
Task: Close language analysis. Line by line annotations for students to engage and mark up the poem for the next task. Discuss the extended metaphors and the hidden meaning of the monarch’s extraordinary life.
Task: Choose one of four possible responses to the poem. Task includes three close language analysis options and one creative response option.
Plenary: Share response or pair mark for feedback.
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