Current published Senior Cycle English textbook author with a grá for flaticons. 13 + years experience in creating T&L units for Senior Cycle English & new Junior Cycle English.
My units and worksheets are learner-centred and highly visual. Critical thinking skills and 'responsibility for own learning' are central key skills embedded throughout my resources.
Current published Senior Cycle English textbook author with a grá for flaticons. 13 + years experience in creating T&L units for Senior Cycle English & new Junior Cycle English.
My units and worksheets are learner-centred and highly visual. Critical thinking skills and 'responsibility for own learning' are central key skills embedded throughout my resources.
This TY English unit will take 4 - 5 classes to complete end of November to December pending TY activities.
It begins with an Christmas themed unseen poem ‘Trio’ by Edwin Morgan and unseen poetry questions with rough work prompts and a link to an online Scottish audio performance of the poem with BBC link to online T&L resources. There are lined spaces for learners to enter their answers similar to the junior cycle English format.
The next class(es) features two creative writing micro activities with the prompts:
Write a short creative piece of writing in which you outline and describe your ultimate Christmas holiday.
Write a personal piece of writing in which you outline and describe your favourite Christmas memory of all time. This resource has doodle ‘colour me in’ features and an aesthetic space for TY learners to write their micro essays (1 A4 page) x 2 options.
The following class, gives learners the space to plan their own creative poem with a scaffolded rough work planning space and an aesthetic space to write their poetry drafts.
TY’s could submit the unseen poetry as a timed assessment or the creative writing options or their self written poem as their assessment to submit for their Christmas reports.
This exam is an Unseen Poetry question based on Edwin Morgan’s Christmas poem ‘Trio’, set in Glasgow Scotland. This editable Word.docx exam takes roughly 45 minutes and is formatted similar to the Junior Cycle English exam with lined boxes for learners to fill in their answers onto the page.
A preview of two of the 4 questions:
(a) What do you think the poet is saying about the power of youth and hope at Christmas? Support your answer with reference to the poem. (10 marks)
(b) Identify two images from the poem that make an impact on you and give reasons for your choice. (10 marks)
This unseen poetry unit explores ‘Trio’ by Scottish poet Edwin Morgan and LC poet (2022-2026) Patrick Kavanagh’s ‘A Christmas Childhood’.
This unit will take a roughly week to cover in December. Both poems are Christmas seasonal themed with stylish aesthetic versions of the poem text printed and features unseen poetry style questions and research tasks.
