Thursday, 7 April 2011

New Writing and Reading units

Writing:
We will be publishing our Literary essays and moving onto poetry next week (week 7).

Students will learn:

  • How poets develop their ideas.
  • The different elements of poetry (Imagery, emotions,beat)
  • How to use literary devices: similies, metaphors, alliteration
  • How to use line breaks.
  • How to end with your strongest line
  • How to make a catchy title
  • How to revise and edit poetry
  • How to publish poetry.
The end product will be a poetry tea which you will all be invited to!

Reading:
Book clubs will be starting next week. All groups will be reading a book by the author Roald Dahl. Every student will have a specific job during these sessions:



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