Wilfrid Owen
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and edit a poem by a significant poet that uses figurative language to reflect themes and ideas about aspects of conflict that occurred during the first world war.
The class can practise selecting and composing example similes and metaphors to compare conflict in war to other things, ideas and feelings as part of verses of a poem.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and edit a poem by a significant poet that uses figurative language to reflect themes and ideas about aspects of conflict that occurred during the first world war
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the use of figurative language in poetry used to reflect ideas about conflict and differentiated worksheets to select, edit and write figurative language to compare objects related to the first world war to other things, ideas and feelings.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to edit a poem by a significant poet with figurative language used to reflect themes and ideas about conflict.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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