| Acknowledgements |
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| A Note from the Author: Third Edition |
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| Introduction: Writers' Workshop |
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| Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Poetry: A to Z |
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Workshop 1 Licensed to Thrill -- performing poetry |
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19 | (4) |
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Workshop 2 Monday's Child -- rhyming couplets, poems from different cultures and times, language changes over time, traditional and modern poetry, half-rhyme/near-rhyme, using an existing poem as a springboard to own creative work, poems that provoke discussion and deal with issues |
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23 | (5) |
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Workshop 3 The Day the Zoo Escaped -- redrafting, encouraging use of powerful verbs and adverbs, revising, synonyms and antonyms |
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28 | (4) |
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Workshop 4 Every Word Counts -- careful word choice, syllable counting, line-breaks, classic and modern poetry, producing polished poetry through revision, deletion, reorganisation |
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32 | (4) |
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Workshop 5 Fin Flapper -- kennings, language choice and control, creating new words, alliteration, description |
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36 | (3) |
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Workshop 6 Waves -- shape/concrete poetry, wordplay, calligrams, onomatopoeia |
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39 | (4) |
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Workshop 7 Further On -- language awareness, idioms and wordplay, compound words, figurative language |
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43 | (5) |
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Workshop 8 Space Rap -- performance poetry, maintaining rhythm, writing in rhyme, linking poetry to the rest of the curriculum |
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48 | (3) |
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Workshop 9 The Robin -- rhyming or unrhyming poetry, the effect of layout, observation/senses, writing a poetic sentence |
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51 | (2) |
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Workshop 10 The Poem Hunt -- the senses, descriptive language, drafting and editing, commas |
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53 | (4) |
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Workshop 11 I Am a Baggy T-Shirt -- metaphor, figurative language |
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57 | (3) |
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Workshop 12 The Sound Collector -- onomatopoeia, following a rhyme scheme, narrative poem, exploring the sense of hearing |
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60 | (4) |
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Workshop 13 Nocturnophobia -- personification, free verse, similes, synonyms, invented language |
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64 | (3) |
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Workshop 14 Three -- levels of meaning, redrafting, idioms and wordplay, figurative language, link with fable and myth, half-rhyme |
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67 | (5) |
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Workshop 15 December -- poems reflecting different cultures and voices, internal rhyme, comparison of different treatment of classic and contemporary themes |
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72 | (6) |
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Workshop 16 Hubble Bubble -- comparison of different treatment of classic and contemporary themes, using existing poems as a springboard to creativity, familiarity with classic authors, performance |
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78 | (5) |
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Workshop 17 The Charge of the Light Brigade -- classic narrative poetry, poems dealing with historic events or true stories, effective use of strong rhyme, rhythm and repetition, writing a narrative poem, strong verbs |
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83 | (6) |
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Workshop 18 My First Day at School -- contemporary narrative poetry, poems that raise issues and encourage debate and discussion, poems to encourage questioning and empathy, poems that clearly link to the rest of the curriculum |
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89 | (2) |
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Workshop 19 Spag Alert! -- performance, punctuation, reading for pleasure, spelling |
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91 | (4) |
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Workshop 20 Spelling It Out! -- suffixes, spelling, rhythm/rhyme/rap, performance |
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95 | (3) |
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Workshop 21 Hauntingly -- adverbs/fronted adverbials, creating or capturing an atmosphere |
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98 | (3) |
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Workshop 22 Framed! -- revision or introduction of names of parts of speech, vocabulary selection and enhancement leading to creative writing, revision and redrafting, opportunity to write a poem to fit in with any aspect of the curriculum |
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101 | (2) |
| Appendix |
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103 | (2) |
| Introduction to bibliography |
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105 | (1) |
| Bibliography |
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106 | (4) |
| A to Z of Poets |
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