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Debate poems

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Sumer Literature

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations.
  • Characteristic features of past non-European societies.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between cultural and social history.

English

  • Read and discuss a wide range of poetry.
  • Increase their familiarity with a wide range of texts from other cultures and traditions.
  • Select the appropriate form and use other similar writing as models for their own.
  • Assess the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing.

Lesson Planning

Discover the Ancient Sumerian concept of debate/dispute poems and how children can use this to write their own debate/dispute poems about modern life.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand that the Ancient Sumerians wrote poems about things that were important in their daily lives.
  • To write a poem in an Ancient Sumerian style reflecting modern daily life in the UK.

Children will:

  • Explain that the Ancient Sumerians wrote debate/dispute poems that reflected daily life.
  • Understand that the things used as opponents were personified.
  • Write their own debate/dispute poem.

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