Poetry KS3 Scheme

Poetry Writing KS3

Poetry writing KS3 pack that explores language, structure, form and meaning of poetry by asking students to create their own poems. These are heavily modelled and scaffolded, so that students can learn how to analyse poetry through their own creative writing. It currently includes: 1) Poetry writing introduction 2) Rhyme and its effects - Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud and Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven 3) Sonnet writing (form, structure, conventions) - Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 4) Pathetic fallacy and personification - John Donne and John Keats 5) Similes, metaphors and extended metaphors (Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns, Robert Frost) 6) Stanzas, structure and refrains (Dylan Thomas) 7) Enjambment and caesuras (Emily Dickinson) 8) Juxtaposition and contrast 9) Alliteration and sibilance (Edgar Allan Poe) 10) Openings to poems (WH Auden) 11) Endings to poems and structure (WH Auden) 12) Voices and perspectives in poetry (William Blake - The Chimney Sweeper) 13) Imagery, mood and atmosphere (Charles Causley - Eden Rock) 14) Building tone to establish mood and atmosphere 15) Elegies (William Wordsworth, Thomas Gray) 16) Ballads (John Keats) 17) Poetry assessment planning lesson 18) Poetry assessment review lesson 19) Scheme of work document 20) Poetry escape room