Poetry week
Date: 3rd Oct 2022 @ 2:34pm
Poetry week 2022
This week is National Poetry Week; the theme is 'Environment'. In Year 6, we have shown a particular interest in, and talent for, poetry.
When starting Year 6, we completed a poem based on Roger McGough's 'The Writer of This Poem'. These are currently on display on the staircase leading to our classroom.
This week, we learned more about the conventions of poetry, including its form and features. We learned about the different types of poetry, including prose poetry, haikus and limericks. We talked about the rhyme scheme of poems, monosyllabic and polysyllabic words and how they affect the rhythm of poems, as well as some of the tricks poets use to make their poems interesting to read (including assonance, consonance, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc).
Once we had looked at a wide range of poetry conventions, we looked at the poem 'Going, going' by Phillip Larkin. This poem was about our natural environment and how it is being overtaken by concrete and man-made structures. Our task was to find as many of the poetry conventions within this poem as we could. We found that the poem contained stanzas called sestets (made up of 6 lines), repetition, metaphors, a rhyming scheme of ABCABC and many more.
We then completed our own Kennings about the environment. Here are a couple of examples:
Ice-cream melter
Skin burner
Plant grower
Leaf drier
Summer symboliser
'Sun' by Molly
Forest wanderer
Amazon ruler
Meat devourer
Death maker
'Jaguar' by Sophia
Shark dodger
Ice waddler
Wing shaker
'Penguin' by Joseph
Here are some haikus that some children came up with on the spot...
When Halloween comes
The dead will rise up to us
Sweets will be eaten
- Max
When kids rule the world
Children will be powerful
Kids will be the best
- Adelaide