**Lesson Plan for Senior Secondary 2 Literature in English**
**Topic:** Poetic Devices
**Duration:** 90 minutes
**Objectives:**
1. Students will identify and understand various poetic devices.
2. Students will analyze how poets use these devices to enhance meaning and emotion in poetry.
3. Students will create their own poetic lines employing at least three different poetic devices.
**Materials:**
- Whiteboard and markers
- Copies of selected poems (printed or digital)
- Projector (optional for displaying poems)
- Handouts with definitions of poetic devices
- Notebooks and pens/pencils
**Lesson Outline:**
**Introduction (15 minutes):**
1. **Warm-up Activity:**
- Begin with a brief discussion: "What makes poetry different from prose?"
- Encourage students to share their thoughts.
- Introduce the concept of poetic devices as the tools poets use to enhance their writing.
2. **Objective Presentation:**
- Clearly state the objectives of the lesson.
- Distribute handouts with definitions and examples of key poetic devices: simile, metaphor, alliteration, assonance, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, enjambment, etc.
**Direct Instruction (20 minutes):**
3. **Explanation of Poetic Devices:**
- Go through each poetic device on the handout, providing a clear definition and example.
- Use examples from well-known poems. For instance:
- **Simile:** "My love is like a red, red rose" (Robert Burns).
- **Metaphor:** "The world is a stage" (William Shakespeare).
- **Alliteration:** "She sells seashells by the seashore."
- **Assonance:** "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."
- **Personification:** "The wind whispered through the trees."
- **Hyperbole:** "I’ve told you a million times."
- **Onomatopoeia:** "The bees buzzed."
- **Enjambment:** "The sun rises and sets, the moon waxes..."
**Interactive Activity (20 minutes):**
4. **Group Activity:**
- Divide the class into small groups.
- Assign each group a short poem that contains multiple poetic devices.
- Instruct each group to identify and annotate the poetic devices in their assigned poem.
- Ask groups to discuss how these devices contribute to the poem's meaning and emotional impact.
- Example Poems: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth, or "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
**Discussion (15 minutes):**
5. **Class Sharing:**
- Reconvene the class and invite each group to share their annotations and insights.
- Facilitate a class discussion on the effectiveness of different poetic devices.
- Encourage students to think critically about why poets choose specific devices.
**Application Activity (15 minutes):**
6. **Creative Writing Exercise:**
- Ask students to write a few lines of poetry incorporating at least three different poetic devices.
- Provide themes or prompts if needed (e.g., nature, love, a personal experience).
- Allow students to share their lines and discuss the devices they used and why they chose them.
**Conclusion (5 minutes):**
7. **Recap and Reflect:**
- Summarize the key points covered in the lesson.
- Reiterate the importance of poetic devices in enriching poetry.
- Prompt students to reflect on what they learned and how they can apply it to future readings and their own writing.
**Homework:**
- Assign students to read a poem of their choice and write a short paragraph identifying and analyzing the use of poetic devices in that poem.
**Assessment:**
- Informal assessment through participation in discussions and activities.
- Observation of group work and creative writing exercise.
- Evaluation of the homework assignment for understanding and application of poetic devices.