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Monday: Lesson One

LO: To identify different poetic features

Key Poetry Definitions

• Alliteration- using words from the same sound, not just the same letter

(slithering snakes, mischievous monkeys…)

• Rhyming- words that have a close similarity in the final sounds (bike and hike,

plane and train, sunny and funny)

• Verse- a part of a poem where words can be arranged in a rhythmic pattern.

The Tyger by William Blake

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

What poetic features can you find in this poem?

Rhyming/Rhyming Couplets

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; A rhyming couplet is a pair of sentences which rhyme at the end.

Alliteration

In what distant deeps or skies. Can you think of some other examples of your own?

• Eg. Leaping lizards beautiful birds

The Jaguar by Ted Hughes

The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun. The parrots shriek as if they were on fire, or strut Like cheap tarts to attract the stroller with the nut. Fatigued with indolence, tiger and lion Lie still as the sun. The boa-constrictor’s coil Is a fossil. Cage after cage seems empty, or Stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw. It might be painted on a nursery wall. But who runs like the rest past these arrives At a cage where the crowd stands, stares, mesmerized, As a child at a dream, at a jaguar hurrying enraged Through prison darkness after the drills of his eyes

On a short fierce fuse. Not in boredom— The eye satisfied to be blind in fire, By the bang of blood in the brain deaf the ear— He spins from the bars, but there’s no cage to him More than to the visionary his cell: His stride is wildernesses of freedom: The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

Mini-Activity: Can you spot any rhyming or alliteration?

Let’s share what we found…

Rhyming Alliteration

Over to you…

Read the following poetic sentences and identify whether: rhyming or alliteration has been used:

1. The sharp shape of a shark just below the surface. 2. The roaring yawn of a fawn at dawn. 3. The magnificent monkeys were moving majestically. 4. Green grass blew gracefully in the breeze. 5. The golden eagle shivered in the cold. 6. Standing still, Stanley stood staring.

Answers

Read the following poetic sentences and identify whether rhyming or alliteration has been used: 1. The sharp shape of a shark just below the surface. ALLITERATION 2. The roaring yawn of a fawn at dawn. RHYMING 3. The magnificent monkeys were moving majestically. ALLITERATION 4. Green grass blew gracefully in the breeze. ALLITERATION 5. The golden eagle shivered in the cold. RHYMING 6. Standing still, Stanley stood staring. ALLITERATION

Tuesday: Lesson Two

LO: To write a poem in the style of ‘The Tyger’ by William Blake

Features to include

 Rhyming Couplets  Alliteration

Mini Task: Complete the following rhyming couplet Swimming swiftly across the sea, ________________________________

Let’s have a go together…

• 1. Firstly, let’s choose an animal for our poem eg. ‘ The Monkee’

Note that in William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ he has spelt tiger

• incorrectly. Think of a different way to spell the name of your animal.
• 2. Next, let’s look at ‘The Tyger’ and use it’s style to write the start
• f a shared poem.
• 3. Your own poems will need to be between 4 and 6 verses.

Shared Write

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? Monkee monkee, flying free, Making your way through each tree; Where are you going, who are you with? Are you travelling back to where you live?

Planning your poem

• Use the planning sheet to organise the ideas for your poem.
• Your poem needs to be at least four verses (4 lines per verse).
• It must include the features: rhyming couplets, alliteration.
• CHALLENGE: Could you include a metaphor or simile in one of your

verses?

Use the writing template to write up your poem before copying it up neatly and add illustrations.