Lesson Planning

Explore poems about identity, thoughts and feelings using Life Doesn't Frighten Me and Being Me: Poems about Thoughts, Worries and Feelings. Learn to use expanded noun phrases, modal verbs and adverbs of possibility. Create an illustrated poetry book, write powerfully on a passion.
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Essential Texts
Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
Being Me: Poems About Thoughts, Worries and Feelings by Liz Brownlee
Optional Text
Rhythm and Poetry by Karl Nova
Websites
Reading of Life Doesn’t Frighten Me from youtube.com
Rachel Rooney’s reading of her poem Defending the Title on the CLPE website
Karl Nova reads his poems 'I'm Different', 'Poetry?' and 'Peer Pressure' on the CLPE website
Essential Text
Being Me: Poems About Thoughts, Worries and Feelings by Liz Brownlee
Essential Text
Being Me: Poems About Thoughts, Worries and Feelings by Liz Brownlee
Optional Text
Rhythm and Poetry by Karl Nova
Weblinks
Reading of Thought Machine by Laura Mucha from clpe.org.uk
Reading of Peer Pressure by Karl Nova rom clpe.org.uk
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
Essential Texts
Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
Rhythm and Poetry by Karl Nova
Weblinks
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me read by Maya Angelou
A4 mini booklet folding instructions from walkruncycle.com
The chaotic brilliance of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (video clip) or How Jean-Michel Basquiat turned art history on its head(video clip)
Biography and artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat from artchive.com
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