Stephanie Flynn Teacher e-Portfolio

Essential Learning Outcomes:-  students are able to:

• Identify audience, purpose and text type
• Identify main ideas and the sequence of events, and make simple inferences
• Recognise and select vocabulary to describe subject matter
• Interpret how people, characters, places, events and things have been representented
• Construct simple literary and non-literary texts by planning and by using prior knowledge and experience to match an audience and purpose
• Make judgements and justify opinions about their enjoyment and appreciation of texts using personal knowledge, experiences and direct references to the texts
• Reflect on and identify how language elements in texts represent people, characters, places, events and things in similar and different ways
• Reflect on learning to identify new understandings.

Critical reflection:

Brainstorming different styles of poetry was limited, as they couldn’t recall any other styles other than rhyming poetry.

Students seem confused about who Kath Walker was, even though we had discussed her previous poems studied last lesson and how we were going to use her poetry again this lesson – perhaps more emphasis should have been placed on the poet, her background and history.

Handout was distributed around the class, however, students seemed confused about what to do with the poem once they had glued it in their English books – need to breakdown more clear instruction about what we’re going to do with the handout BEFORE handing out (and possibly write on the board). Also students need to have 3 different coloured highlighters or pens on their desks first.

Reading the poem together was a little fast – need to slow this down by perhaps reading again?

Discussing the grammatical elements of the poem I started to lose some of the student’s interests. I think the grammar is an elemental part of the poetry so other visual aids such as ICT need to be used to hold interest perhaps?

This was a long lesson and did eventually turn into two lessons with students writing their poetry over an additional lesson.

Objectives of the lesson changed slightly to simplify them. Students had to write; 5 line poem, using adjectives and nouns, of an Australian ‘thing’ and had to consider their ‘audience’.