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3.4.1 Intensive Reading: Poetry

English · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Structure of a poem: title, poet, lines, stanzas, refrain
  • Comparing how poems break into stanzas and how that shape carries a message
  • Short poems on hygiene, HIV and AIDS, and COVID-19

What you will be able to do

  • explain the structure of poems
  • analyse the structure of varied simple poems
  • read short poems addressing varied societal issues
  • appreciate the poem’s structure in communicating a message

Key questions

“Why do people write poems?”

“What makes a poem interesting?”

Lessons

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  1. Title, lines and stanzas
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    A poem’s structure is title, poet, lines grouped in stanzas, and sometimes a refrain.
  2. How structure carries a health message
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Compare two poem shapes and say how a short stanza, a refrain or a list of lines serves hygiene, HIV facts or COVID care.