RIC-0205 Discovering Poetry

Summer Berries
This poem is about
Themes
Style
Curriculum Links
the berry fruits of summer
taste, texture, variety, sensory pleasure
Nursery rhyme style
The poem includes repeated vowel sounds and internal rhymes (assonance). It
experiments playfully with words and variations on words. There is a nonsense
verse element, with a description and monologue section in the last seven lines.
health, nutrition
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1. Real – blueberry, loganberry, boisenberry, gooseberry etc.
Imaginary – jackberry, looseberry, wilderberry, snappleberry, glowberry etc.
2. sour/ours, near/earn, more/Rome, eat/tea
3. merry, glow
4. Teacher check
5. Happy, jolly, carefree mood, festive feelings
6. Teacher check
• What beneficial plants grow wild where you live? What
makes them beneficial? What is difficult to cultivate
in your area? What fruits and vegetables have to be
imported and why?
• What is genetic engineering? What are the benefits
and disadvantages of genetically engineering
produce?
Small-group Work
Students choose from the following topics:
– Noxious weeds
– Edible wild food
– Composting
– Local crop farming
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Have relevant resources available (library, Internet, topic
books) for the students to use to research and write about
their topic. Reports or posters can be created and
presented to the class.
Individual Writing
Students write an original nursery rhyme on a subject of
their choice.
Students write a short story that begins: ‘I peered through
the window and froze! I could hardly believe what I saw
growing in there!‘
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