Year 7 Intro to Poetry Scheme of Work

A full, differentiated poetry scheme of work for year 7. Covers 18 lessons.

Includes:

• Two differentiated PowerPoints for ‘more able’ (MA) and ‘less able’ (LA) with prompts and answers in the ‘Notes’ section
• Brief context and history of poetry focusing on earliest poems and purpose/context of nursery rhymes
• Introduction to key forms (haiku, free-verse, lyric and narrative)
• Introduction to poetic devices
• Introduction to key conventions of poetry (form, mood, language and structure)
• Application of poetic conventions and analysis to key poems centered around the theme of ‘Growing Up’ (‘Mrs Tilscher’s Class’, ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, ‘Nettles’ and ‘Riding Downhill on a Bicycle’)
• Worksheets and planning sheets to prepare for an analytical assessment on ‘Riding Downhill on a Bicycle’
• Planning sheets for writing their own poem
• A medium term plan document