Target group: Year 7
Project title: Poetry SOW
To be published in think.com.

Overall Aims:
For pupils to integrate English Poetry skills with ICT skills:
For the English department to work with ICT teachers
To enrich creativity for pupils
For pupils to find a vehicle for ICT skills through the English curriculum
To encourage children to write poetry who otherwise might not have done so.
For pupils to use interactive whiteboards to present their poems.

Curriculum Aims: Twofold:
1. English: Importance of sound and shape in poetry.
· Calligrams (simple)(understand and create one)
· Shape poems (complex) (understand and create one)
· Onomatopoeia (understand and use)
· Ability to write instructions on how to write a shape poem
· To be able to write a review on shape/sound poem

2. ICT: To present information in a variety of forms
· To create good quality presentation in a form that is sensitive to the needs of the audience
· To use ICT including e-mail, to share and exchange information effectively
· - word processing
· - clipart
· - cut and paste
· - re-sizing
· - dragging
· - publishing on web
· - graphics

Resources:
· See collection: e.g.:
· - M. Foreman book 'Poems'
· - R.Read/S.Subhani Bengali/English Poems
· - Appolinaire
· - Weekend in the Country
· - Worksheets

Methodology
· Pick a pilot group
· Introduction to several models of shape words, shape poems using booklet collection
· Choral work on 'A Weekend the Country'
· Oral feedback/discussion
· Shape words.. H/wk write some
· Calligralligrams (concrete poems) (simple)
· H/wk write one
· C/wk how to create/find the/a shape using ICT
· Fill the shape with relevant words (dictionary/thesaurus work)

Author: Dr. Reha Akinci