Middle Childhood Integrated Year 7

Outline – Poetry in motion

Middle Childhood Integrated – Year 7

In the beginning

• view, compare and respond to two dramatised balcony scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo andJuliet – presented in both Shakespearian English and a modern interpretation.

• listen, interpret and respond to a poetry recitation:

• identify the poetic features in Geeky and Romeo and Juliet
• read a short text from the Iliad in old English and analyse in terms of vocabulary, rhyme and rhythm
• translate the Iliad into modern English
• read a short text from Shakespeare’s Romeo andJuliet in Shakespearian English and modern English and complete an analytical comparison in terms of vocabulary, audience, era, rhyme and rhythm.

• view two versions of Shakespeare’s Romeo andJulietand will:

• Geeky – analytical table
• Geeky – reflective response and comic strip
• Iliad translation
• Romeo and Juliet – interpreting old English
• Romeo and Juliet – comparison between the old and modern English versions
• Romeo and Juliet – analytical table
• Romeo and Juliet – reflection on personal preferences.

Telling tales

• create artworks in response to verses from Dorothea MacKellar’s My Country
• create a poetry pathway in response to a selected poem written by either Henry Lawson or Banjo Paterson.

• listen, interpret and respond to poetry recitations of The Drover’sBallad (Henry Lawson) and Mulga Bill’s Bicycle (Banjo Paterson) in a true/false task.

• listen to and read the poems The Drover’s Ballad (Henry Lawson) and Mulga Bill’s Bicycle (Banjo Paterson) and indentify key events in the stories told in the poems
• analyse either The Drover’sBallad (Henry Lawson) or Mulga Bill’s Bicycle (Banjo Paterson) in terms of vocabulary, setting, theme, rhyme and rhythm.

• view a video about the relationship between Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson and respond to related questions.

• artworks in response to verses from My Country poem
• viewing quiz
• key events identification – Mulga Bill’s Bicycle and Ballad of the Drover
• rhyme identification – MulgaBill’s Bicycle or Ballad of the Drover
• rhythm identification – Mulga Bill’s Bicycle or Ballad of the Drover
• poetry pathway.

It’s all nonsense

• create an artwork in response to one of five nonsense poems
• create a cartoon style drawing to complete a photostory for Doug MacLeod’s Nonsense Verse
• create a mask or cape made from found materials to be worn in a stage production of the Jabberwocky
• display and photograph mask/cape.

• create and follow a design plan to create a mask or cape made from found materials to be worn in a stage production of the Jabberwocky.

• listen to and read a range of nonsense poetry to identify poetic features and key information.

• will listen to and read a poem listing the features of nonsense verse and identify the features
• interpret the story from the Jabberwocky poem, including matching text of individual verses with correct illustrations.

• compose a nonsense poem using the structure of one of the two poems presented as a model
• investigate the vocabulary of nonsense verse, including portmanteau words from Jabberwocky
• respond to an audio of Doug MacLeod’s poem about Lewis Carroll – could this be how the Jabberwock was written? Why/not?

• features of nonsense verse identification
• cartoon style artwork in response to nonsense poetry
• write a nonsense poem based on a modelled poem
• investigate nonsense verse vocabulary and create possible meanings
• identify storyline of Jabberwocky though matching activity
• reflection and comic drawing – the origins of Jabberwocky
• mask/cape design plan and labelled sketch
• mask/cape photographs.

In short

• listen to a range of poetry including nursery rhymes, haiku, rebus and riddle poems and analyse for storyline, rhyme, rhythm and setting.

• compose a rebus poem using rebus/text messaging/SMSshorthand
• compose modern and traditional haiku poems
• compose rhyming riddle poems
• write a paragraph explaining the origins of a nursery rhyme
• write rhyming riddles.

• explore the history of modern and traditional haiku
• explore the origins of sharing messages including autographs, text and SMS messaging
• explore the stories behind a range of nursery rhymes
• investigate the features of rhyming riddles and solve these puzzles
• solve rebus and text/SMS shorthand messages.

• modern and traditional haiku poems
• nursery rhyme matching activity
• paragraph about the origin of a nursery rhyme
• identify poetic features of a rhyming riddle
• rhyming riddle
• multiple choice quiz
• draft ideas and publish a copy of a rebus poem.

Painted words

• respond to three of Leon Pericles’ artworks by listing words or phrases (for each artwork) that come to mind while viewing the artworks.

• plan and build a film set (in a box)
• brainstorm ideas for a background set for a poem including environment and props
• brainstorm, list and collect materials needed to complete the background set.

• convert their responses to one of Pericles’ artworks into a narrative/ballad poetic form that will become the basis for a film/theatre set and scene development.

• responses to Leon Pericles’ artworks
• poem
• planning notes for set box design
• plans for walls and floor of set box with required materials detailed on them
• set box with walls and floor built and decorated
• photographs of completed set box.

Stage works

• create set furnishings
• create props and characters – puppets or models with costumes.

• draw a plan to show the positioning of set furnishings
• arrange set and props to create atmosphere
• design characters and costumes to represent era and personality.

• planning notes for set box interior
• floor plan showing furnishing positions
• props list
• photographs of set box with furnishings and props
• photographs of costumed puppet or model actors.

What’s in the box?

• create a ‘board’:

• createa storyboard for the video
• make a video, or take photographs for a photo show or photo book using the poem, set box and costumed ‘actors’
• edit and store video or present photographs in a digital/book form
• add audio of poetry reading to video or digital photo show
• reflection on set box and video, photo show or photo book creation.

• create an audio recording of the poem.

• storyboard
• video photo show or photo book with audio
• reflection sheet.

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