This document provides an overview of a poetry re-introduction lesson for 8th grade English. It defines poetic devices like rhythm, rhyme, and figures of speech. It discusses using imagery and literal vs. figurative language. It provides examples of common figures of speech like simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, hyperbole. Students are asked to analyze poems by young learners for their use of poetic devices and to write a collaborative 12 line poem about being a teenager in South Africa that incorporates rhythm, rhyme, and figures of speech.

1. RE-INTRODUCTIONTOPOETRY
TUESDAY,01SEPTEMBER2015
GRADE 8 ENGLISH F.A.L…..TERM 3…WEEK 7

2. I ABLETO
DIFFERENT PARTS
LAUNGUAGE, RHYTHM & RHYME
PARTS & FIGURES OF SPEECH
• WRITE MY OWN

3. • WHAT IS RHYTHM??????
beat
used a lot in rap music
flow tap your foot

4. • WHAT IS RHYME???????
Rhyme
Rhyming end of a line
middle ‘internal rhyme’.
cat bat walk
dock

5. • PAIREDTASK (7 MINUTES)
‘CONGRATULATE’ ONYOUR WORKSHEETS.
HIGHLIGHT RHYMES ANDTHE INTERNAL
RHYMES DISCUSS
RHYTHM RHYME SCHEME

7. LANGUAGE
IMAGERY’.
TASK: WITH A PARTNER,LOOK ATTHESE 2 IMAGES AND
MENTIONTHE FIRST WORDTHAT COMESTOYOUR MIND WHEN
YOU SEE EACH ONE

9. FIGURATIVE
EVERYDAY LITERAL MEANING
FIGURATIVE MEANING

10. Language
Literal Figurative
real, actual not real
could include jokes
includes imagery
(in poems and prose)
 A pre-schooler drops
her carton of milk and
starts crying. The
teacher says, ‘It’s OK.
Don’t cry over spilt milk.’
 A busy executive misses
a deadline to buy some
shares. His investment
advisor says, ‘Don’t cry
over spilt milk.’

11. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE ACTIVITY!
LOOKING BACK ONYOUR STUDY OF
POETRY IN PRIMARY SCHOOL,WHAT
FIGURES OF SPEECH, USED IN
POETRY DOYOU REMEMEMBER??????

12. • LET US LOOK AT A FEW COMMONLY USED FIGURES OF SPEECH

13. comparison of two objects like’, ‘as’ or
‘than’.
like
as
than

14. comparison of two objects (was, am,
are, were) the other
moon is a balloon
road was a gypsy’s
telephone, an unscheduled alarm clock

15. giving human abilities and qualities non-human
headlights blinked
sun smiled
Leaves danced

16. repetition of the initial consonant sounds line
series of lines sound effect
f b b f f
f f f
P p p

17. exaggeration
bigger, smaller, faster, slower, better or worse
than something else.
so tall touches the sky.
told thousand times
naughtiest world.

18. 1. READTHE FIVE POEMS WRITTEN BYYOUNG LEARNERS LIKE
YOU ON PAGE 102 OFYOUR ENGLISHTEXTBOOK AND ANALYSE
HOWTHEY HAVE USED DIFFERENT POETIC DEVICES INTHEIR
POEMS ABOUT BEINGTEENAGERS INTHEIRVARIOUS
COUNTRIES.
2. IN GROUPS OF 3 WRITE A 12 LINE (4 LINES A PERSON) POEM
ABOUT BEING ATEENAGER IN SOUTH AFRICA.YOUR POEM
MUST INCLUDE RHYTHM, RHYME & FIGURES OF SPEECH. (SEE
PAGE 105 FORTHE RUBRIC)---------- 20 MARKS
- DUE NEXT WEEK WEDNESDAY (10 SEPTEMBER). BRINGYOUR
DRAFTS FOR CHECKING FROMTOMORROW