Year 6 poetry unit - Power of imagery.

Hi everyone,

Hope you're having a good holiday and planning is going better than mine! Just wondering if anyone has any good ideas of poms to use for power of imagery unit, which show really good examples of personifcation?

I will be eternally grateful!

 

Hi everyone,

Hope you're having a good holiday and planning is going better than mine! Just wondering if anyone has any good ideas of poms to use for power of imagery unit, which show really good examples of personifcation?

I will be eternally grateful!

 

Personification Classics

Below are some classic poems that contain personification. If you like the poems, click on the links below each one to find more of the poet's poems.

Two Sunflowers
Move in the Yellow Room.

"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"

They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.

William Blake
(1757-1827)

The Train

I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare
To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a start its own,
Stop-docile and omnipotent-
A stable door.

By Emily Dickinson



The Cat & The Fiddle

Hey diddle, Diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

By Mother Goose

Personification

Definition: when you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do.

Example

"Wind yells while blowing"

"Wind yells while blowing" is an example of personification because wind cannot yell. Only a living thing can yell.






Necklace is a friend


"Necklace is a friend" is an example of personification because Necklace is a thing, and necklaces cannot be friends. Only living things can have friends.

SNOW


Snow speaks to the people its
falling above in the glooming
sunlight.
Its white sparkling voice
echoes
as it falls through
the air.

By Jake

SATIN DREAMS OF INDIA


Satin dreams of India.
Satin dreams of being
made into a beautiful sari.
A warm, Wonderful sari
Worn on an
Indian Princess.
Swaying in the wind.
Satin tell us to be soft and
gentle like her.

By Autumn

STARS

Stars, bring me up with you
Bring me to the place
you sleep.
How do you do it?
Bring me to your home.
Bring your thoughts
to me.
Share them
with me.

By Alex
VELVET

Velvet remembers
how it wrapped around
me.
Keeping me warm
on a snowy
day.
Velvet remembers
how it laid softly
on my bed.
Velvet tells me not
to forget
it.

By Rachael

Try this link

http://poetrysoup.com/search_results_form.asp?Form=Person...

 

Wow, thanks a million. That's so so helpful!

 

I uploaded my planning of this to the year 6 yahoo group. Many of us are working together to do the new plans. If you are nota member then you definitely should be - leave a message for Gertie Grumbles and she'll join you up

 

Hi i am really struggling to plan for year 6 poetry unit 1..does anyone have any samples of medium term plans, lesson plans or suggested activities? would be really thankful!