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Poetry unbound

Twice a week, the Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama reads, reflects upon and then re-reads a poem. The poems are drawn from classics to contemporary.

    Structure and features

    Each episode is available to listen to via podcast and website. From the website, each episode is downloadable and has a full transcript.

    The current season includes:

    For students and families

    Students:

    • follow your teacher’s advice about which poems to use
    • use the poems as part of an independent poetry study.

    Family members can support students by listening to the poems and talking personally about the ideas expressed.

    For teachers

    Integrate poems into the program as:

    • test analysis and response to individual poems
    • comparative analysis of 'Poetry unbound' as an anthology
    • online interactive oral tasks
    • transformational tasks
    • text production tasks.

     

    Teacher notes

    Focus areas

    • Poetry
    • Contemporary poetry
    • Personal response
    • Interpretive response
    • Intertextuality
    • Text in context
    • Literature.

    Curriculum links

    • Australian Curriculum year 10 English
    • SACE English
    • Language, literacy and literature strands
    • Text analysis
    • Text production.

    Assessment

    No assessment lessons or plans are provided by the site. Teachers should integrate the materials into their current assessment plans.