Performing our poems about place and home
I can perform my poem with confidence and use different performance techniques to convey emotion.
Performing our poems about place and home
I can perform my poem with confidence and use different performance techniques to convey emotion.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Connecting with the audience when reading our poems can make our story more powerful.
- We can use our body language, posture and eye contact to convey certain emotions.
- We can vary the pitch and pace of our voice to convey different emotions and influence the tone of our poem.
- You can trick yourself into feeling more confident about a performance through deep breathing and smiling.
Keywords
Pitch - pitch refers to the relative highness and lowness of voice when speaking
Pace - when delivering a monologue, pace refers to the speed at which you are saying the words
Tone - tone refers to the general mood or feeling
Body language - body language is the movements or positions of your body that show other people how you are feeling
Common misconception
As long as the content of a poem is good, the performance will automatically be good.
Performance requires practise in a unique set of skills which are worth practising as a good performance can enhance the poem content.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
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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