Grade 9 English Unit 6

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TOPIC 1: POETRY

  1. Lesson 1: Elements of a Poem
    • Objective: Understand the fundamental components of poetry.
    • Key Points: Form, structure, rhyme, rhythm, language.
    • Activities: Analyse different poems to identify these elements; write a poem focusing on integrating form, structure, and language.
  2. Lesson 2: Theme
    • Objective: Explore the central themes or messages in poetry.
    • Key Points: How poets convey deeper meanings through literary devices, exploration of universal ideas.
    • Activities: Identify themes in selected poems; write a poem cantered around a specific theme.
  3. Lesson 3: Imagery
    • Objective: Use vivid and descriptive language to create mental images and evoke sensory experiences.
    • Key Points: Types of imagery (visual, auditory, tactile).
    • Activities: Analyse poems for use of imagery; create a poem using various types of imagery to evoke sensory experiences.
  4. Lesson 4: Metre
    • Objective: Understand the rhythmic structure of poems.
    • Key Points: Arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables, common metrical patterns like iambic pentameter.
    • Activities: Scan poems to identify metrical patterns; write a poem using a specific metrical pattern.
  5. Lesson 5: Tone
    • Objective: Examine the attitude or mood conveyed through word choice and style.
    • Key Points: How tone affects the interpretation of a poem.
    • Activities: Analyse tone in various poems; write a poem with a specific tone and discuss how word choice affects the mood.

TOPIC 2: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

  1. Lesson 6: Simile and Metaphor
    • Objective: Learn to use similes and metaphors to create vivid imagery.
    • Key Points: Drawing comparisons, enhancing descriptions.
    • Activities: Identify similes and metaphors in poetry; create a poem using both figures of speech.
  2. Lesson 7: Assonance and Alliteration
    • Objective: Explore sound devices like assonance and alliteration.
    • Key Points: Repetition of vowel and consonant sounds, effects on musicality and mood.
    • Activities: Find examples of assonance and alliteration in poems; write a poem incorporating these sound devices.
  3. Lesson 8: Personification
    • Objective: Understand and use personification to attribute human qualities to non-human entities.
    • Key Points: Creating empathy and vivid imagery.
    • Activities: Analyse personification in poetry; write a poem using personification to bring objects or concepts to life.
  4. Lesson 9: Onomatopoeia
    • Objective: Explore the use of onomatopoeia to imitate sounds.
    • Key Points: Enhancing the auditory experience of poetry.
    • Activities: Identify onomatopoeic words in poems; write a poem that uses onomatopoeia to create sound effects.
  5. Lesson 10: Metonymy
    • Objective: Understand and use metonymy, where something is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it.
    • Key Points: Impact on meaning and imagery.
    • Activities: Find examples of metonymy in poetry; write a poem using metonymy to convey deeper meanings.
  6. Lesson 11: Hyperbole
    • Objective: Use hyperbole for emphasis or effect.
    • Key Points: Exaggeration to create humour, drama, or intensity.
    • Activities: Identify hyperbole in poems; create a poem incorporating hyperbole for dramatic effect.
  7. Lesson 12: Irony
    • Objective: Explore the use of irony, where intended meaning contrasts with literal meaning.
    • Key Points: Situational, verbal, and dramatic irony.
    • Activities: Analyse examples of irony in poetry; write a poem using irony to convey contrasting meanings.

TOPIC 3: TYPES OF POETRY

  1. Lesson 13: Narrative Poetry
    • Objective: Understand narrative poetry, which tells a story through verse.
    • Key Points: Plot, characters, settings.
    • Activities: Read narrative poems; write a narrative poem that tells a story with a clear plot and characters.
  2. Lesson 14: Ballad
    • Objective: Explore the characteristics of ballads.
    • Key Points: Musical quality, storytelling elements, themes of love, tragedy, or adventure.
    • Activities: Analyse traditional and modern ballads; write a ballad focusing on a dramatic or adventurous theme.
  3. Lesson 15: Lyrical Poetry
    • Objective: Focus on lyrical poetry, which expresses personal emotions.
    • Key Points: Musical qualities, themes of love, beauty, nature.
    • Activities: Read examples of lyrical poetry; write a lyrical poem expressing personal emotions or reflections.
  4. Lesson 16: Sonnet
    • Objective: Understand the structure and themes of sonnets.
    • Key Points: 14-line structure, Shakespearean and Petrarchan forms.
    • Activities: Analyse different sonnet forms; write a sonnet following one of the traditional structures.
  5. Lesson 17: Elegy
    • Objective: Explore the elegy, a poetic form that laments the dead.
    • Key Points: Structure, tone, themes of mourning and reflection.
    • Activities: Read elegies to understand their tone and structure; write an elegy reflecting on loss or sorrow.
  6. Lesson 18: Parody
    • Objective: Understand parody in poetry, which humorously imitates other works.
    • Key Points: Critique, mockery, purpose.
    • Activities: Analyse famous parodies; write a parody poem imitating and critiquing another work.
  7. Lesson 19: Love Poems
    • Objective: Explore the genre of love poems.
    • Key Points: Romantic emotions, admiration, heartbreak.
    • Activities: Read various love poems; write a love poem exploring different aspects of romantic experience.

Each topic and lesson are designed to enhance students' understanding and appreciation of poetry, from fundamental elements and figurative language to various poetic forms and genres.

 


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