Jigsaw: Teaching poetry to middle secondary students

This photocopiable resource provides teachers with a range of poetry suitable for middle secondary years, and a wealth of suggestions and approaches for teaching the poems. Two Australian poets, Jeff Guess and Kris Hemensley, have provided drafts of their poems, enabling students to study the ways in which poets revise and perfect their work. Jeff Guess has also provided many suggestions for poetry-writing workshops. A section on performance poetry suggests ways in which students, in groups, can prepare poems for oral presentation.
Contents
A VARIETY OF APPROACHES
- Jigsaw poem — Alfred Tennyson
- Verse Riddles — Anglo-Saxon riddles, John Fuller, John Mole, May Swenson, Vasko Popa
- Asking Questions — poem by E.E. Cummings
- Cloze — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Sequencing — George Herbert, James Wright
- Jumbled Poems — John Dryden, Vernon Scannell, Thomas Otway
POEMS FOR PERFORMANCE
- Choral Speaking — Ogden Nash
- Dialogue Performance — Paul Fleischman, Roger McGough, Gael Turnbull
- Readers Theatre — Allan Ahlberg, Paul Dehn, Peter Dixon
WRITING POETRY
- Getting Started — The Joeys
- Memories — Marietta Elliott
- Tone — Jeff Guess
- Haiku — Jeff Guess,Roger McGough
THE DRAFTING GRIND
- The Drafting Grind — Jeff Guess, Chris Hemensley
THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
- The Dramatic Monologue — Robert Browning, Carol Ann Duffy
THREE THEMES
- School — Gregory Harrison, John Latham, Barrie Wade
- Progress? — Vachel Lindsay, Raymond Wilson
- Prejudice — Jack Davis, Jackie Kay, Jim Wong-chu
POEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTIVITY
- Sounds and Pictures — William Blake
- Perfect? — Jeff Guess
- Poems in Translation — two versions of one of the Songs of Solomon
- Missing Words — John Donne
- Poems to Compare — John Donne, Richard Lovelace
POEMS BY PETER SKRYZNECKI
Year Level | Year 9, Year 10 |
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Date of Publication | 2016 (Reprinted by Phoenix Education). Originally published 1995 |
ISBN | 9781925169027 |
Subject | English |