poetry
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Increasing “P” Marks in a Studied Poetry Response
Here is a very useful exercise which can be used for the following: To scaffold notes on a poet To revise poetry and retrieve previously learned knowledge To work on increasing “Clarity of Purpose” marks Begin with this document: (I have used Emily Dickinson as an example) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TQE3QCpbfxY6uo6ovrx9i8x-BrFKaF0GGzOxDuCxPnw/edit Using your notes (or notes on this Continue reading
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All Too Well Lesson
This is a lesson for the song All Too Well by Taylor Swift This lesson is suitable for Junior Cycle and Transition Year. It includes a slideshow with the lyrics to the song as well as the music video, which was directed by Swift. There are also lesson activities and commentary added throughout. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1x6Af8F-dm_vLYP-bwuNWfe-D4Xz7_mHAODPtWIOAlvQ/edit#slide=id.g2b3dc13cdcf_0_152 I Continue reading
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T.S. Eliot Teaching Booklet
T.S. Eliot Ms. C. Cotter A link to a Google Doc of this booklet which can be printed: Click Here Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in Missouri to a Bostonian family. Educated at Harvard and later completed graduate work at Oxford. Eventually settled in England and became a British citizen in 1927. Converted Continue reading
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Poetic Techniques Bingo
This is a nice way of encouraging students to find and comment on various poetic techniques in both unseen and studied poetry. Students tick all that apply and are then expected to provide examples from within the poem. Continue reading
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WB Yeats Teaching Slides
Here is a link to Google slideshow to teach the poetry of WB Yeats. I have also added it to the “links to slides” section on this site. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vjyZ77AUA0dG-noNEvjIbv2xGqwCBzXw-oITlcrqOhE/edit Continue reading
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Base Details Notes
Siegfried Sassoon The poem is written in the subjunctive mood, where the speaker imagines themselves as a “scarlet major” who spends his time “at the base” sending young soldiers to the front while he eats and drinks comfortably in “the best hotels”. The poem is a biting critique (a strong criticism) of the military elite Continue reading
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The Wild Swans at Coole
In this poem, Yeats once more explores the natural world and his relationship with it. He describes standing on the shore of a lake at Coole Park in Co. Galway and watching the swans who populate it . Yeats is clearly fascinated by the swans but he also envies their seemingly eternal youth and beauty, Continue reading
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
WB Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree was written by Yeats while he was living in London in the late nineteenth century. It describes his yearning to live alone on an idyllic island on Lough Gill in Co. Sligo where he can enjoy the island’s natural beauty and serenity. The poem opens with the emphatic Continue reading
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Ms. Cotter’s Class is a run by Claire Cotter, a teacher and SEN Coordinator in Christian Brothers College Cork.
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