Week 21 session 2 WRITING POETRY AND WORD

Week 21 session 2 WRITING POETRY AND WORD CLASSES

The aims of today’s lesson are… üTo identify nouns, verbs and adjectives üTo identify literary features used in creative writing üTo produce creative poetry OR piece of writing using literary features.

Starter Challenge: �Get into two large groups �You will be handed a story that has been written using pictures and numbers instead of words. �Can you workout what the story is about? �There are more clues hiding around the classroom! CLUE: This sign means ‘and’ This sign is a full stop This sign means ‘the’

Answers One night Man and The sand. Hand At a the light woman about ten out and the woman went the bandstand the couple went right towards the water. the lay couple a to in sand. hand half went The man in Out The at moonlight. At dead first on

Word classes �How did you work out the words? �What previous knowledge did you use to help? �What did you find difficult and why? Look at this sentence; The man and the women moonlight hand in the went. Is this the correct sentence? How do you know? Is the verb and noun in the right place?

Word classes What are nouns? A place object or a name What are verbs? An action or a doing word What are adjectives? Words that describe the noun What are adverbs? Words that describe the verb

Put these sentences in the right order! �The verb always tells us what the subject noun is doing. �Can you fix these sentences? The pineapple Taiyba ate. Who is the sentence about? A: Taiyba ate the pineapple. This is also correct! The Pineapple ate Taiyba!

Kicked round Sanna the football. Who is the sentence about? A: Sanna kicked the round football. Where is the verb? Where is the noun? What other word class is there? Adjective!

Put these sentences in the right order! Castle and Muniba into the Mehvish ran quickly ancient. What word classes can you identify? Nouns = Muniba, Mehvish, Castle Verbs = Ran Adjectives = Ancient Adverbs= Quickly A: Muniba and Mevish ran quickly into the ancient castle. Question: Why are all the names written with capitals? What other nouns should be in capitals?

Poetry (hand out ‘City Jungle’) Lets read the poem titled ‘ City Jungle’. What is the poem about? What is unusual about this poem? What major literary device is used? PERSONIFICATION Have a go at underlining all the verbs and circling all the nouns in the poem hand out.

Literary features- Personification �How does the writer personify things in this poem? �i. e. houses cough

Task �Lets have ago at Personifying inanimate objects. Task 1. Chose an emotion.

Task 2. Think of an inanimate object you use or come across every day. Here are some example…. Pot , chair, iron, bed, TV, pencil, roundabout, clouds, lamp post, paper, paint brush, coins, twigs cars, leather book, handbag, windows, needles, ice cream, pavement, bricks, gloves, watering can, diamond, teddy bear, computer, walls door, cupboard, trees, buttercup, leaves, cardboard, scarf, thread, notes …. .

Task Example- The chair was grumpy from being sat on all day! Task: write a short piece personifying your inanimate object. �What is it feeling? �What is its life like? �Does it have any desires? Aspirations? You can either produce a poem or a short creative piece telling a story.

City Jungle Rain splinters town. Lizard cars cruise by; their radiators grin. Thin headlights stare – shop doorways keep their mouths shut. At the roadside hunched houses cough. Newspapers shuffle by, hands in their pockets. The gutter gargles. A motorbike snarls; Dustbins flinch. Streetlights bare their yellow teeth. The motorway’s cat-black tongue lashes across the glistening back of the tarmac night. Pie Corbett

Extension- Poetry Can you identify all the nouns/ verbs/ adjectives in these poems? These are called Cinquain poems and have a specific layout. Have ago a producing your own. Use the templates as a guide. (hand out template)

plenary What types of nouns would you see and use in a salon? What types of verbs you do? Do you ever need to describe your verbs? (use adverbs) Why? Exercise- make a list and organise the word classes used in hair and beauty. Keep these worksheet with you to help you during hair and beauty classes. (Handout h & b worksheet - 5 mins)