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Year 7 English Unit Plan

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Year 7 English Unit Plan – Term 2, 2020

Wk Lesson 1 Lesson 3 Lesson 3


1 Prepared workbook pack
2 What do we know about poetry and song? Elements of poetry (ppt and workbook) Poem activity – pull apart a poem – students have
What types of poems are there? to find lines of the poem hidden around the
Rapping? room.
Break out activity with a verses from a song, for students to Tease poem apart once students have put the
find different things in the verse (dot point summary) poem together, what sort of place is this, why
Pre-teaching do you think that?
3 What’s in the box? Elements of poetry (ppt and workbook) What are nouns?
Objects in the box, that relate to the topic of the poem. Give Person, place, thing
students a turn to pull out items and talk about the item. (how Pronoun,
does it feel, how does it etc) Record on the board. Abstract
Teacher reads poem out (not the title) and see if the students Headless poems (abstract nouns)
can tell what the poem is about?
Then students can questions independently at their desk.
4 Abstract nouns – ASSESS Elements of poetry (ppt and workbook)
Project “friendship” onto w/ board to symbolise an idea. Eg: 5W’s about the poem
happy, sad, love, angry Who is the poem about?
What abstract noun is in this topic in the
Another activity to teach abstract nouns – something students poem? Why do you think that is the
can see and then something they cannot see. abstract noun?
? represents a question etc
! represents urgency, excitement
5 Verse from song – play the song, give the students a close Elements of poetry (workbook) Figurative language (activity –individual task
passage to complete x3 sheet)

6 Activities about: (to understand) ASSESS ASSESS


Poetry devices Give students a song (they may not know) Think about the verse and then express their
1. Repetition and have them write another verse. reasons for choosing poetic devices such as
2. Assonance Share with the class repetition, assonance, and ?
3. Record on iPad. Teacher asks questions such as:
Why did you choose repetition in line 2? (for
example)
7 ASSESS Interpreting figurative language A thinker like me activity
Think about the verse and then express their reasons for choosing
poetic devices such as repetition, assonance, and ?
Record on iPad. Teacher asks questions such as:
Why did you choose repetition in line 2? (for example)
8 Writing simile poem Onomatopeia poems Onomatopeia poems

9 Teach the class a song using Auslan (see Emily Christofferson) Practise and record song as a whole class Idioms/similes/metaphor activities if only takes two
lesson to do signing with song.
10 Idioms/similes/metaphor activities if only takes two lesson to do Literacy activities Literacy acitivities
signing with song.

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