Reading and responding to 'Home Time' by Rachel Rooney
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Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can give a personal response to the poem and read it aloud.
Key learning points
- Home Time is a poem about the end of the school day.
- Home Time is a poem written from the perspective of the classroom clock.
- Home Time is a poem that uses personification.
- Personification and perspective can be an imaginitive way to create humour.
Keywords
Perspective - the point of view or position from which the poet writes
Personification - a way of describing a non-living thing as if it acts or feels like a human
Common misconception
Pupils may think that a poem cannot be written from the perspective of an object that isn't alive.
Teach pupils that personification is a fun and imaginative poetic technique to know and use.
Teacher tip
You may wish to play a fun game where you speak to the class as if you are an object in class and they have to guess which object you are.
Equipment
The poem used in this lesson is available in the additional materials.
Licence
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