Teaching+Strategies

I had five different Kath Walker poems printed out and stuck to the middle of a sheet of butcher's paper. I placed one sheet, with a permanent marker on each desk. Students were divided up into five groups. I wrote the following questions on the board: On the SMARTBOARD, I put up an online timer with a five minute countdown. Each group had five minutes (displayed on the SMARTBOARD) to go around to each table - read the poem, and record their answers four each of the questions. Once every group had seen every poem, I had the groups record the information on the poem they started with into their books in a grid. Each group then read the poem to the class and a different group member reported what they had learned for each of the four different headings.
 * Class:** 8B English
 * Period:** 4
 * Topic:** Poetry
 * Carousel -** I used this strategy for poetry, but it could be adapted for any other topic.
 * What is this poem about? **[Content]**
 * What can we learn about Australia/ being Australian from this poem? **[Concept]**
 * What techniques are used in this poem? **[Language Forms and Features]**
 * What is the mood of this poem? **[Tone]**