Lesson Planning

The children learn about kennings and riddles and prepare their own to perform at their Anglo-Saxon feast.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To understand the importance of telling riddles and using kennings in Anglo-Saxon society.
• To recognise, understand and write kennings and riddles.

Children will:

• Recognise kennings and create some of their own.
• Understand how important kennings were in Anglo-Saxon poetry as descriptive language.
• Answer riddles written in a typical poem structure, as kennings or as prose.