Unit One: Poetry
Guiding Statement
Examining and comparing the methods poets use to express universal themes enables a greater sense of empathy and connection amongst people of different places and times.
INQUIRY AIMS
Students have:
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• Explored a vast, diverse poetry collection
• Understood a broad range of literary devices & how they inform meaning
• Identified themes of poetry and establish intertextual links
• Analysed authorial intent, context and impact
• Created new poetry involving conscious use of valuable literary techniques
• Read poetry for an audience
Poetry Events
- Poetry Cafe with Greentown Students
-Poetry Recital on The Great Wall in Beijing
-Poetry Retreats to Xixi Wetlands & The Botanical Gardens, Hangzhou
-Poetry Anthology: Shakespearean style Sonnets & other original poetry !
Greentown Poetry Cafe
poetry retreat
Student work Exhibition
"Pardon Me?"
Sebastian Ng
"Poems"
Gabriel Fung
"Icarus in the Eye"
Lilly Larard
