Modern and Classical Poetry Year 5 Term 1

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Modern and Classical PoetryYear 5 Term 1
Images of Insects

• To investigate and collect forms of word play.
• To analyse and compare poetic style, themes,
  meanings and patterns.
• To convey feelings, reflections or moods in a
  poem through careful choice of words and phrases.

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Blue Bottle Buzz Like a whirlwind of noise It
fuzzes, tumbling and bumbling. Like an overfed
dot it stops Buzzing, fat and fumbling. Like a
crackling radio It continues its sound, Blue
bottle as loud as a band Humming as you dance
around. By K. Broad
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Fly of Fire Firefly, Like a burning
torch, Sparkling Like coloured lights, In dark,
Night it shines, As the North star, glowing
brighter. Firefly, Like a flickering
flame, Burning Like orbs of fire, In blackness,
It shimmers, as embers, floating higher. by K.
Broad
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Dragonfly
As elegant as the sunshine, over the pond like a
dream, Wings like blue sapphires, like moonstone
in the breeze, As graceful as the dancer, over
the reeds like a beam, Hovers like a humming
bird, like scent in flowered trees. As
beautiful as the twilight, over the lilies so
new, As dazzling as the water, on pebbles like a
jewel, Flies like a morning song, like grasses
fresh with dew, Landing like a breath of wind,
over the air so cool. By K. Broad
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Plenary Day ThreeWe are going to change the
similes for metaphors in the poem Blue Bottle
Buzz.

• Blue Bottle Buzz
• Like a whirlwind of noise
• It fuzzes, tumbling and bumbling.
• Like an overfed dot, it stops.
• Buzzing, fat and fumbling.
• Like a crackling radio
• It continues its sound,
• Blue bottle as loud as a band
• Humming as you dance around.
• By K. Broad

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L.O. To convey feelings, reflections or moods in
a poem through careful choice of words and
phrases.

• Think about the poems we have studied about the
  fly.
• They all have these features of poetry
• Different moods
• Express feelings
• A pattern
• An individual style
• A message
• Descriptive language (simile/metaphor)
• Task
• Today we are going to write our own poems about a
  fly to include the features of poetry we have
  studied.

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Imagine a flyany type of fly!

• Think about the mood and message of your poem.
• Do you hate the fly?
• Feel sorry for it?
• Find the fly disgusting?
• Think they are funny?
• Write a selection of words that describe your
  fly.
• Think of a simile or metaphor about your fly.
• Link the words together into phrases.
• Begin to put them into an order, how will it
  begin and end?

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Toolkit For writing a poem about a fly!

• Use an individual poetic style
• Create a message for the reader
• Convey feelings and moods
• Use descriptive language (simile/metaphor)
• Link the poem to the title
• Decide upon rhymes and sound patterns
• Make careful choices of words
• Make me want to read it again and again!

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Plenary Analysing our own work.

• Look at the toolkit,
• How many would you give yourself out of 8?
• Swap poems with someone else,
• read and re-read their poem
• Look at the toolkit, how many would you give them
  out of 8?
• Read the poems aloud to each other, which are the
  best parts of the work?
• Discuss the two poems with your partner, how
  could each of you improve your work?

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Spider, Spider!

• Close your eyes and think of a spider.
• Your spider might be a money spider, small and
  lucky.
• Your spider might be a jungle spider, huge and
  deadly.
• Your spider may be red and stripy, with a painful
  bite.
• Your spider may be a harvest spider, hiding in
  fright!
• By K. Broad

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Spider, Spider!

• Spider, spider in the dead of night,
• Creeping silently ready to fight.
• As black as coal with eyes of steel,
• Moving closer to catch his meal.
• Spider, spider a warrior stare,
• Shadow floorboards hiding there.
• As dark as night and nearer still,
• The spiders is web ready to kill!
• By Mrs. K. Broad

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A contrasting poemby 5W

• Write on your whiteboard some words that give
  another view of spiders.

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Look at the toolkit from yesterday, you are
going to write your own spider poem. Remember
all the features of poetry we are looking for.
Individual message
Poetic style
Link the poem to the title
Feelings and moods
Careful word choices
Similes and metaphors
Make me want to read it again!
Use rhymes and sounds
Descriptive language
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Plenary Recording time!

• These are some poems we have written in our class
  for Unit One on Poetry!