Good afternoon, my lovelies!
As I type, we're still awaiting confirmation from the Ministry of Education as to whether we will be permitted to open on Monday 7th. I do hope that all of you are safe and dry, wherever you are; school remains untouched by the floods at present and I hope it will remain so.
Okay, today's mission may take you a while: you're going to learn a poem by heart. You can choose any of these poems and you need to memorise it so that when I call on you to stand up in class, you will be able to recite the poem from memory.
I think this will take quite a few days of practice, so I'm giving you until the end of next week to be perfect.
That means you need to start practicing NOW and keep practicing every day until you can do it without looking at the words. It would be A REALLY REALLY BAD IDEA to leave it until the last minute, so I feel confident that none of you will do that.
http://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/timothy.html
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dis-poetry/
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18.html
http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672/
http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Ted_Hughes/4244
These are my suggestions. If you have a different poem that you personally would like to learn by heart, then I'm open to ideas; write to me & give me a link to the poem and I'll tell you whether or not it will count.
Guys, don't worry if you don't understand all the meanings of all the words in the poem you choose. For this activity I'm just asking you to memorise the poem first off - like learning a song or a piece of music. Just worry about remembering all the words. We'll focus on comprehension exercises later, once you've got your poem memorised.
