Teaching English: Poetry Unit - Seamus Heaney's 'Storm on the Island'

POETRY – Seamus Heaney’s ‘Storm on the Island’

This short unit is designed to introduce and explore Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Storm on the Island’’ as well as develop students’ ability to write analytically using a specific, taught paragraph structure. This unit is collaborative in nature with lots of opportunities for paired, group and class discussion. It includes a very nicely presented 24 slide teaching PPT as well as all 10 student resources and a set of detailed teacher’s notes explaining how you could deliver the unit. Outcomes include an analytical PETAL paragraph which could be extended into a longer essay using the structure provided. I have also included a free self-study professional development unit on teaching poetry. Please note that all files are in pdf format.

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