Section outline

  • Kia ora 7M2,

    This week we embark on a poetry writing journey along with 96,000 other students our age!!!

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

    • Completing a practice ‘This is Just to Say’ poem about a naughty thing you did as a kid.
    • Planning a route and selecting words that form part of the final group list and parody poem
    • Contributing a stanza of the sestina poem in the correct format that can be swapped with your partner class

    Activities:

    1. Discuss with students the naughty things you did when you were little kids. Ask:

      What did you do?

      Who was the person that would be grumpy with you for doing it?

      Why were they grumpy with you? What was your excuse for doing it?

      Listen to a reading of the poem ‘This is Just to Say’ by William Carlos Williams.

      Use the This is Just to Say template to write versions (parodies) about times students were naughty (in your books).

      2. Your class poem is a parody of the very special NZ poet Kendrick Smithyman’s Book of the Road.

      Discuss places that are close by that are beautiful or have a special story.

      Research special things that only exist close by and not anywhere else in New Zealand.

      Make a list of places close by that you’d recommend to people that had never been here.

      Practice using the directions function to plot routes to local places everyone in the class knows.

      What’s the best thing to eat near here that you can’t get anywhere else (i.e. not McDonalds).

      Agree: How could people identify your class if they could not speak to you and you had never met

    3. Find our classroom on Google maps and try zooming in and out on that specific location.

    Identify the location of your partner class (their address is on the courier bag in your box)

    Use Google Maps to plan a journey from their classroom to yours.

    Drag the markers around to create a journey that goes off the beaten track.

    Identify great sounding names of places and roads that you see when you zoom in.

    Choose eight places and eight roads that occur anywhere along the route you have created.

    Write them in route order on the Planning Sheet:

    Reorder each list based only on what sounds best e.g words that rhyme/start with the same letter.

    In spaces #1-9 write your newly ordered list of places.

    In #10-18 write your newly ordered list of streets but leave the ‘street suffix’ (ave, terrace, road) off .

    Complete the rest of the planning sheet using the earlier discussions about your community.

    Use a dark-coloured Sharpie to transfer each word from the Planning Sheet to the corresponding number on the large A1 Poster.

    Your decoder glasses reveal Poem #2, A parody.

    Follow Up Tasks:

    Reading Plus and Maths Buddy.


    PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI

    PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:

    • We are PLANNING on applying the techniques we have learned so that we can write and present our "I Am From" poems to a group of younger students and submit sestinas to our buddy classes.