Exploring themes of identity in 'Back to Me', 'Find Me', 'Friend' and 'Everyone'
I can read and reflect on poetry about identity.
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Exploring themes of identity in 'Back to Me', 'Find Me', 'Friend' and 'Everyone'
I can read and reflect on poetry about identity.
Copyrighted materials: to view and download resources from this lesson, you’ll need to be in the UK and
Lesson details
Key learning points
- ‘Back to Me’ can be considered a list poem; it contains 15 lines, with between 1-4 words in each.
- Readers might connect to their thoughts, feelings and sense of identity in similar or different ways.
- ‘Find Me’ is a fixed verse poem, split into 12 two-line verses.
- A technique that poets can use to draw attention to specific lines is by changing the rhythm of the poem.
- 'Friend' and 'Everyone' are poems by Laura Mucha.
Keywords
Theme - a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a text
List poem - a form of poetry that consists of a list or inventory of things
Identity - understanding who you are and your place within the world
Rhythm - the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, creating a musical and rhythmic flow in the poem
Common misconception
Pupils may not notice the patterns that can be associated with each poem when reading aloud.
Remind pupils to think about rhythm and rhyme when considering how to interpret a poem to be read aloud. Do they notice a particular rhythm when they read?
Equipment
You need a copy of the 2021 Otter Barry edition of ‘Being Me’ written by Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Laura Mucha, illustrated by Victoria Jane Wheeler for this lesson.
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