Homework for half term

In our first lessons back after half term we are going to be performing our poems to one another.
Your homework over half term is to rehearse and practice, ready to perform when we come back.

Try to memorise your poem, or shorten it to some helpful hints.

When you rehearse, ask yourself have you:

¡  Changed pace

¡  Changed tone

¡  Changed volume

¡  Changed body language

¡  Used gestures

¡  Used Facial expressions

Good luck and don't worry, you will be fine. 

Mr Brown

Homework Task- 9/10/2013

In our lessons recently we have looked at elements of performance and how we can improve our early drafts of our performance poem though using various techniques/devices.

Comment on this post an example of how you have changed/improved your poem. This could be a line you have re-written to include a technique or something you have decided to introduce to improve the performance.


You could:

Experiment with changing where a line starts and ends.

Expand the detail (add more descriptive words)

Change or edit words/lines.

Bring in more language devices to develop the use of imagery or rhythm in the poem (ie personification or repetition)

Add punctuation to create certain effects such as a pause.

Think about the actions you want to put into the performance (including facial expressions and gestures)


Due: Monday 14th October 2013

Mr Brown

Homework Task- 2/10/2013

 Homework:

Re-draft the poem you created after the free writing exercise earlier this week and adding/improving your favourite bits of language for homework last lesson. 

Try to create something similar to the one we created in the lesson together (posted below if you need to check or want to post a comment about it)

It doesn’t have to be as long as Simon Mole’s but I would like it to be longer than Malika Booker’s.

Remember: You can have one word lines, you can have one long stanza (paragraph in a poem) or seperate ones (the different sections don't have to be linked.)

Challenge: Can you include similes and metaphors in yours?

Bring them in with you in your prep books- do not post them on here.  

Due: Monday 7^th Oct

Mr Brown

7X1 Performance Poem

Hello 7X1

Here is the poem we created today as a class,

Please feel free to comment on this post with aspects you like about it or things you would change to improve it.

Well done; good work ladies.

The sand was an ever changing toy.

Surfers surfed the subtle waves.

Sun worshipers topped up terrific tans.

Peaceful pairs strolled up and down the shore

Siblings built sandcastles like skyscrapers.

The sun was a sea of liquid gold

The warm glow of the sun

Sunlight dancing on the sea.

Clear blue sky

Tingling in my stomach.

Enthusiasm

Eager

Impatient

Anticipation

Lightning and thunder raged with fury.

Chilling breeze

Claps of thunder.

Sand swept into the air in the sharp breeze.

A curtain of rain beat down.

Scared

Terrified

Petrified

Scared stiff

Frozen in fear

By 7X1 & Mr Brown.