Monday Week 1 What different types of poetry

Monday Week 1 What different types of poetry do you know? What are the rules that make a poem a certain type? © Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users.

I can use adjectives. Monday Week 1 Using amazing adjectives, how many different parts of this creature can you describe? Examples Beautiful plumage, Amazing horns, Rough, scaly hide.

Monday Week 1 Can you think of more adjectives to describe these creatures?

Monday Week 1 I can use adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Now think of your own fantastic creature… What does it look like? How does it move?

Monday Week 1 Grammar 1 I can use adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Using the online dictionary, find awesome alternatives to these words… ADJECTIVES Pretty, Ugly and Scary VERBS Creeping, Moving, Flying ADVERBS Slowly, Quickly, Dangerously CHALLENGE Look up your own words for each word class.

Monday Week 1 Grammar 1 STEPS TO SUCCESS FOR FREE VERSE • • • Use punctuation to help the reader. Use adjectives, verbs and adverbs to enhance your work. Use effective nouns and noun phrases. Use repetition, onomatopoeia and alliteration. Use similes and metaphors. Use personification. Create real emotion (mood) in the audience. Include assonance in your poetry. Use a range of poetic styles. How many of these poetry features can you use? REMEMBER – the skill is to use each feature for deliberate effect – don’t put every feature in your poem just because you can!

Tuesday Week 1 What can you see? What ‘mood’ does this image create? Original image found here on Great Free Picture website

Tuesday Week 1 What can you see? What ‘mood’ does this image create? Original image found here

Tuesday Week 1 What can you see? What ‘mood’ does this image create? Original image found here

Andy Goldsworthy – creates ‘visual poetry’ by Tuesday Week 1 placing natural objects then photographing them Original image found here

Tuesday Week 1 Andy Goldsworthy – creates ‘visual poetry’ by placing natural objects then photographing them Original image found here

Tuesday Week 1 Andy Goldsworthy – creates ‘visual poetry’ by placing natural objects then photographing them Original image found here

Tuesday Week 1 Composition 1 The challenge…Compose a visual poem. Think about… • what is in the image • The ‘mood’ you want to create. • The ‘composition’ – where objects are in the image. • Light and shadow. • Will you deliberately place objects in your image, like Andy Goldsworthy?

Fog by Carl Sandburg Tuesday Week 1 Composition 1 The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbour and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Can you see how this place is silent? Original source for image here

Wednesday Week 1 Winter Poem by Nikki Giovanni once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of snow engulfed me then i reached to love them all and i squeezed them and they became a spring rain and i stood perfectly still and was a flower

Wednesday Week 1 By Robert Frost 1874– 1963 Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Wednesday Week 1 Spoken Language 1 How should we read a poem to others? Think about. . . • • • Voice - clarity, volume, speed Expression Movement Gesture Overall performance

Thursday Week 1 How could we describe the cat? How could we describe the tree? The cat sat in a tree.

Thursday Week 1 If we use NOUN PHRASES we can write… The grinning, evil cat sat in a gnarled, old oak-tree. Now write your own sentences about an animal using noun phrases.

Thursday Week 1 Can you include a simile or metaphor in your sentence? The grinning evil cat sat like the bringer of death in a gnarled old oak-tree.

Thursday Week 1 Take out any words that don’t add to the image or mood created by the sentence. Grinning evil bringer of death in a gnarled old oak.

Thursday Week 1 Which sentence do you like best? Why? 1) The cat sat in a tree. 2) The grinning, evil cat sat in a gnarled, old oaktree. 3) The grinning evil cat sat like the bringer of death in a gnarled old oak-tree. 4) Grinning evil bringer of death in a gnarled old oak.

Thursday Week 1 Composition 2/ Grammar 2 Now create your own sentences inspired by this image. Grinning evil bringer of death in a gnarled old oak.

Friday Week 1 What is personification? How many examples of personification can you come up with for this image?

Friday Week 1 Composition 3 Your challenge for today…. 1) Stick 5 ‘personification’ post-its onto objects around your home. Staring Yawning doors eyes of computer screens Main task 1) Write a free verse called ‘Home Life’ – using at least four examples of personification. Think about all of the tools from earlier in the week.