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6.2.1 Intensive Reading: Poems and Plays
Indigenous Languages · Grade 11 · 6 lessons in the design
What you will be able to do
- examine the main ideas in texts read
- analyse literary elements in a variety of poems and plays
- use vocabulary learnt in sentence construction
- acknowledge the role of poems and plays in literary appreciation
Key questions
“Why should you read intensively?”
“How do you analyse poems and plays?”
Lessons
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Finding poems and plays on gender roles
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizSearch online or offline for a variety of poems and plays on gender roles and read them.
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Identifying the main ideas in poems and plays
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizCollaborate to identify the main ideas in poems and plays on gender roles and support them with evidence.
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Inferring meaning; synonyms and antonyms
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizInfer meanings of new words in poems and plays, provide synonyms and antonyms and post them on a wall for peer review.
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Literary elements: setting, events and themes
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizAnalyse the setting, events and themes in poems and plays on gender roles.
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Characters and style in poems and plays
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizAnalyse the characters and style of poems and plays on gender roles.
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Reciting poems on gender roles at a school function
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizRecite poems on gender roles during a school function and use sentences with new vocabulary; answer the key inquiry questions.