POETRY


 * Friday 13th January**

Discussion of personally chosen poems.

Homework: Create a visual (and aural) presentation of your chosen poem It must include: Must be ready to present to class on **Tuesday 24th January**
 * the text of the poem
 * annotations highlighting and explaining key words, phrases or images
 * illustrations


 * Thursday 12th January**

Continue discussion of 'Death of a Naturalist'
 * What is the mood of the second stanza?
 * How is this mood created?

Homework: Find and print out for class tomorrow one poem from the following website: []


 * Tuesday 10th January**

Discussion of 'Death of a Naturalist' by Seamus Heaney

Homework: for discussion on Thursday
 * identify the 'childish' language in the second half of the first stanza
 * what is the second stanza about? how does this connect to the first stanza?


 * Friday 6th January**

Discussion of 'The Early Purges' by Seamus Heaney


 * Thursday 5th January**

Discussion of the mood changes in 'Out, Out—' by Robert Frost

Homework: Imagine you are the writer of the poem 'Out, Out—'. You have been asked to write an 'Opinion' article for the local newspaper about the incident related in the poem. Write a short article (between 250-500 words) expressing the same ideas and feelings that are expressed in the poem. (//Turnitin// by Monday 9th January ... in the morning!)


 * Tuesday 3rd January**

'Out, Out—' by Robert Frost




 * Thursday 15th December**

Vocab test


 * Tuesday 13th December**

Students present a song of their own choice, and identify the metaphors or images used.


 * Friday 9th December**

Identify the metaphors and suggested ideas in 'Mother, any distance' by Simon Armitage

Choose a song that you like. Identify the images/metaphors in the lyrics and work out how they contribute to the meaning/effect of the song. Prepare an oral explanation of the lyrics to be given in class on Tuesday. You may inflict a recording of the song on everyone, as long as the aural suffering involved does not exceed 3 minutes.
 * Homework:**


 * Thursday 8th December**

Discuss and identify the metaphorical descriptions created for homework

Vocab Book: Chapters 3 & 4 ... complete for homework.


 * Tuesday 6th December**

Metaphors in 'A Martian sends a postcard home'

Homework: write metaphorical descriptions of other objects and post them HERE:

By: Manley, Tristan, Tyla. By: Daniel By: Da Bin, Reuben, Hunter

By: Isabella. Another by Isabella, Matthew and D'Andra


 * Friday 2nd Dece****mber**

Imagery and Mood in poetry: 'The Field-Mouse' by Gillian Clarke

Assignment: media type="file" key="Field Mouse English Project.m4a" width="300" height="300" Seya Lewis-Meeks, D'Andra Brown, Manley Liu and Reuben Mair
 * select one of the poems studied this week
 * create a visual and audio presentation of the poem (eg using PowerPoint)
 * Thursday 1st December**

Images and Mood in poetry: 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney


 * Tuesday 29th November**

Imagery and Mood in poetry: 'Storm on the Island' by Seamus Heaney