Shakespeare Academy - Poetry for Beginners Yr 7-9 - July Holidays 2022
Shakespeare Academy • Chatswood 2067Overview
- This course covers poetry analysis and comprehension. Students learn the vocabulary for analysing poetry, and put these to use by studying and analysing a range of poems from the 16th century to now. There are 28 poems included for study in the course. At the end of the course, students are equipped to analyse a wide variety of
poetry, including Shakespearean sonnets.
Student Writing Outcomes:
• Original poetry inspired by the poems studied in class;
• Opinion pieces about the poems studied in class; and
• Analytical paragraphs or partial essays about the poems studied
Student Learning Objectives:
• Understanding and applying an extensive list of techniques for poetry analysis;
• Critically evaluating a range of poems based on structure as well as meaning;
• Studying poems by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Donne, Whitman,
Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser, Poe, Kipling, Angelou, Henley, and more; and
• Having the tools to analyse and write about poems in opinion pieces and essays
Course Outline
• Lesson 1: Introduction and the Language of Literature
• Lesson 2: ‘We Real Cool’
• Lesson 3: Life, Death, and Between
• Lesson 4: Sonnets
• Lesson 5: Sonnets and Nature
suite 504 level 5/8 Help St, Chatswood NSW 2067, Australia
12 - 15 years old
0 hour
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suite 504 level 5/8 Help St, Chatswood NSW 2067, Australia
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We offer high school English tutoring in our warm, supportive classrooms based in Chatswood and Sydney's City. Our inspirational teachers help you boost your marks and develop good study habits.
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