The New Poem (for 18 words)

This is a brilliant piece by Roger McGough, available in his book "Sky in the Pie" which we looked at as part of a "Shared Texts" lesson.

Here were our "Learning Intentions" for the lesson...

16th January 2008

We are learning to:
*analyse and compare poetic styles
*investigate and collect examples of wordplay

We’ll know we’ve succeeded if:
*we can say something about the relationship of the poem to the title
*we can make and re-make sentences of our own using only a set number of words

I'll type up and post some of what the children came up with in their "write out and cut-up" exercise by way of context as soon as I get the jotters back...