Probing New Zealand poetry
Teacher Diane Pearse
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NCEA LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 11
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1
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3-4 weeks
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| Achievement Standard Being Assessed
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Achievement Criteria
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AS90055 (English 1.4): Read study and understand a number of short written texts
(Formative assessment as this achievement standard is assessed externally)
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- Show understanding of at least two short written texts of the same genre using evidence.
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| AS90059 (English 1.8): Produce a Media or Dramatic Presentation
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- Communicate straightforward ideas in a presentation for a specific audience and purpose.
- Use appropriate verbal and visual/dramatic techniques.
- Identify verbal and visual/dramatic techniques used and their intended effect.
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| Processes
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| Exploring Language
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Using appropriate terminology, describe, discuss, analyse and apply the distinctive conventions, structures and language features of a range of NZ poems and explain how they suit the topic and purpose.
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| Thinking Critically
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Analyse short written texts, exploring and identifying attitudes and beliefs in terms of personal experience and knowledge of other texts.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Transactional Writing
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Write coherent logical explanations expressing a point of view linking main and supporting ideas and structuring material.
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Introduction
In this unit students read and analyse a range of New Zealand poems. Students complete responses to the poems as part of formative work for AS90055 (English 1.4): Read study and understand a number of short written texts. They also present web pages on poems they have selected. The purpose of the web page is to explain a poem to classmates and interest them in it. This component of the unit is assessed using AS90059 (English 1.8): Produce a Media or Dramatic Presentation.
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
This unit assumes a basic knowledge of terminology associated with poetry study, including sound devices. See Glossary of Poetic Terms
for an online reference, or
terms (RTF 13KB)
for a printable or downloadable list.
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Assessment
Students can incorporate analysis completed during this unit for formative pieces for the external achievement standard AS90055 (English 1.4) Read, Student and Understand a Number of Short Written Texts
(formative).
Sample Assessment Task and Assessment Schedule
Students should use the Web Designer
assessment activity as they develop web page designs for their selected poems for AS90059 (English 1.8): Produce a Media or Dramatic Presentation
(summative).
Resources
Print
Manhire, B (Ed) 100 NZ Poems Auckland: Godwit Press Ltd 1994
(see Charlotte O'Neil's Song by Fiona Farrell, Before the Fall by Rachel McAlpine, At the Grave of Governor Hobson by C.K. Stead)
Lydia Wevers (Ed) Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry by New Zealand Women Auckland: Auckland UP 1988
(see Poem, You by Jenny Bornholt)
Ten modern New Zealand Poets Longman Paul Ltd. 1974
(see No Ordinary Sun by Hone Tuwhare)
Bornholdt J., O'Brien G., Williams M. (Ed) An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English OUP 1997
(see Birth of a Son by Sam Hunt, The Magpies by Dennis Glover)
- McQueen, Harvey (Ed) Gifts poetry for senior students
Electronic
