E ENGLISH LESSON PLAN

YEAR 10 | BLACKOUT POETRY

LESSON PURPOSE STUDENT OBJECTIVES

Lesson is designed to develop Students are to produce a creative text of their own.
deeper thinking from students. Students are to use visuals and text to create a poem
Students achieve this through
adapting texts to create new,
imaginative texts. This combines
image and text. SYLLABUS OUTCOMES

OUTCOME 4: EFFECTIVELY TRANSFERS KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND

MATERIALS NEEDED
o Copies of text for poetry
o Lead pencils
o Keynote presentation
o Access to apple airplay
o Laptop
o Whiteboard markers
UNDERSTANING OF LANGUAGE CONCEPTS INTO NEW AND DIFFERENT
CONTEXTS.
Creatively adapt texts into different forms, structures, modes and media
for different purposes, audiences and contexts and explain the
differences emerging as a result of such adaptations.
OUTCOME 6: INVESTIGATES THE RELATIONSHUPS BETWEEN AND AMONG
TEXTS
Create imaginative texts that make relevant thematic and intertextual
connections with other texts.

SEQUENCE/PLANNING
Time Organisation Quality Teaching/Learning
Teaching activities
5 Teacher Set up:
mins directed
High - Introduce tasks for
expectations today
- Settle class
 5 Teacher Engagement Introduction keynote on
mins directed Blackout Poetry

- Content includes:
- What is blackout
poetry?
- How to create your
own blackout poem.
- Examples of blackout
poetry
50 Individual Deep Blackout poetry
mins knowledge
- Students complete
+ their own blackout
poem using some of
60 the texts given.
mins - This will be judged
STANDARDS FOR next after lesson 2 and
TEACHING lesso
n
prizes given.

Student Extension:
o 2.2: content selection direction
and organisation - Repeat task on a
o 2.5: Literacy and different text.
numeracy strategies
o 3.2: plan, structure and
sequence learning
programs
o 4.1: support student
participation

PERSONAL
REFLECTION
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