English Poetry I & II

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This lesson contains 27 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

time-iconLesson duration is: 100 min

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Welcome!
- Please put on your camera
- Mute yourself
- Phones away please
- Questions? Raise your hand (like in class ;))
Let's begin!

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Waar denk je aan bij poëzie?

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This class
Poetry!
Who knows a poem?

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Goals
After this class you can:
  • Name different kinds of poems
  • Name some characteristics (kenmerken)
  • Start to write your own poem

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What is a poem?

“a piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by attention to rhythm, and imagery (and sometimes rhyme)”

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Examples

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Haiku

Haiku: 5 – 7 – 5  

3 lines (regels)

1st line: 5 syllables (lettergrepen)
2nd line: 7 syllables
3rd line: 5 syllables


Haiku poems don’t rhyme.

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Haikus are easy. 
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

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The ocean is big,
And also it is pretty,
Pretty freakin' wet.

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I like kittens, YEAH!
They are really fluffy, YEAH!
OMG KITTENS

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Limerick
A
A
B
B
A

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Does a poem have to rhyme?

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No, but it can!

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Vul hier je zelfgemaakte gedicht in!

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Let's get creative!
  • Grab a piece of paper and a pen
  • Write down something/someone you love in the middle of the paper
  • Without thinking too much write down as many words as you can around the something/someone you love: words that come to mind when you think of it (mindmap)
  • Bring to next class!

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Recap
This class:
We learned about poems, you have seen examples
We made a poem together
We started the writing process



Next class:
You will write your poem!

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Poetry II

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This class
Poetry!
Let's share some of your Haikus!

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Goals
After this class you can:
  • Write your own poem!

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The missing sock
I found my sock
beneath the bed
‘Where have you been
all week?’ I said
 
‘Hiding away!’
the sock replied.
‘Another day on your foot
and I would have died!’

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What do you love?
  • Grab your ‘mindmap’ from previous class
  • Draw (teken) the object that you love (not too small!)
  • If you have a person: draw something that reminds you of them

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  • Write a (short) poem in the shape you drew, about the thing you love
  • Think of the examples! It doesn’t have to be long or rhyme
  • Be creative
  • Done? Can you write another one?

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Who wants to recite their poem?

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What have we learned?
We've learned to write our very own poem! 
Well done!

See you next week.

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