From a list of poems studied, each student chooses a different poem to illustrate. Students may also include details such as dates of publication and authors' names. The posters will serve as review and provide an attractive classroom display. Sociograms Creating sociograms based on plays or other works of fiction allows students to work out relationships between characters as well as some details of plot and theme. Divided into small groups, students draw diagrams of the characters and their relationships using coloured felt pens on large sheets of paper.
Students use colours, lines, symbols, and positions on the drawings to show relationships.
Later, groups can report to the class by presenting their drawings, explaining details, and answering questions. Writing sonnets in Shakespearean or Petrarchan form provides students with opportunities to achieve and demonstrate a degree of mastery of the sonnet form as well as aspects of it such as rhyme scheme, metre, and volta. Previous Page Copyright 1996 . All Rights Reserved. BC MOE Curriculum Branch .