Reading and Writing skills- poetry: Explaining figurative language in Sea Fever by John Masefield

Two Lessons- one reading one writing.

1. Poetry analysis. A lesson which works really well at the beginning of a unit on The Tempest or any nautical themed text.

In my experience, students respond really well to this poem.

Includes vocabulary instruction

Although the warm-up task uses quotations from The Tempest, this could easily be adapted to suit your on unit- just change the quotations.

The lesson takes students though discussions about the poem, contextual information about the poet, vocabulary instruction figurative language matching task and ends with an independent analysis task.

1. Poetry writing
   Using Sea Fever as a stimulus, the lesson takes students through understanding structural devices such as quatrain, couplet and refrain. They are supported in writing their own nature poem using the poetic techniques from Sea Fever. Always really good outcomes.