Monday, October 11, 2010

Let the Poetry begin...

Today we hit the ground running. For literacy we discussed the statement "poetry is dead". The children came up with what they felt this meant. We decided as a class it referred to the 'art' of poetry being almost obsolete in a world full of self-expression. We also think that poetry is still valid, and discussed the ideas of using poetic writing as a way to get out your emotions and convey messages to the readers.
We begun the unit by reading a poem called "the Haunted Lift" by James Kirkup... it was a very interesting poem which caused a feeling of unease and mystery. After the reading the children work together to unpic all of the contradictions and ideas hidden in the verses. It was a great day.

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