Reading and responding to 'Home Time' by Rachel Rooney
I can give a personal response to the poem and read it aloud.
Reading and responding to 'Home Time' by Rachel Rooney
I can give a personal response to the poem and read it aloud.
Lesson details
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.
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.
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
Equipment
You need a copy of the poem ‘Home Time’ in the 2014 Frances Lincoln Children's Books edition of ‘Life as a Goldfish’ written by Rachel Rooney for this lesson.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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