Tuesday

1. Intro to The Highwayman

Setting the scene

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43187/the-highwayman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEEHihQ3CPk

Set background to poem

Share poem in darkened atmosphere.

Watch film clip

1. Listen to the telling of the story through the poem.

Wednesday

Setting the scene  ( 2)

Make masks and hats

In school we will be making a tri-pointed hat and a black mask to help us imagine what it might be like to look like the highwayman

Make hat and mask to support children feeling ‘in role’ when working on The Highwayman

Thursday

Investigating the text

Read the first four stanzas of poem. 

Discuss examples of old fashioned vocabulary/specific vocabulary to describe ( ostler)

Use the context of the poem to understand/help explain what they might mean 

Recap on simile and metaphor -select an example to share

Find these things in the first four stanzas.

Key

repetition                  powerful vocabulary                onomatopoeia

alliteration                vivid adjectives      rhyme

metaphor                  simile

1. Annotate poem – identify specific/old fashioned vocabulary
2. Find metaphor and simile and annotate these.
3. Collect powerful vocabulary to support writing later. writing of word poem

Friday 

Performance of  Poem

Rehearse the verses of the poem to support learning of it.  This will help to practice vocabulary and rehearse poem to make the storyline clear. 

1. Learn the poem
2. Select powerful vocabulary for this session to add to collection of words for future tasks