1. Your homework was to use SMILE to
annotate your poem.
Work with the people on your table
to discuss and add to your
annotations…
Add any additional ideas and seek
help.
Starter
10 minutes
2. Poetry
L.O: To analyse and annotate
Human Interest.
To make links with The
Tempest
Monday, 10th
March 2014
3. Highlight key words and
phrases
What you are looking for:
Emotional Language.
Words that link to power, control or
losing control.
4. Group discussion - On your
tables
Read the poem aloud twice.
As the poem is being read. Imagine that the voice of the
poem is talking to you directly.
As you listen consider the following questions.
1. What is the most interesting thing the voice of the
poem says?
2. Why is this interesting to you?
3. What would you say back to the voice in the poem in
response to this idea?
4. Name another person or group of people who you think
would appreciate listening or talking to the voice in this
poem?
5. Poems speaking to the play
Imagine the voice in this poem could speak
to Shakespeare after watching a
performance of the play.
1. What would the voice in the poem and
Shakespeare talk about?
2. What would the voice in the poem and
Shakespeare say to each other?
6. Making links
Use the information from your group
discussions to write about how the poem
could link with the theme of power and
control in The Tempest.
15 minutes
