This was such a great workshop! Thank you everyone who has shared their positive feedback with me about the session, and I’m so pleased that it helped bring some clarity to the subject.
As well as the video, you’ll find some really useful resources and handout below, including some model answers. An important thing we discovered in the process of analysing verse, is that there is sometimes more than one correct answer. Please don’t worry if you have come up with a different rhythm or metre to the ones in the table below. As long as your student can justify their answer then they will score high marks in this question.
I’ve checked our results from December and ALL Grade 7 and 8 Verse and Prose students achieved a distinction mark for the verse form, metre and rhythm section - so this approach does work!
DISCLAIMER: Other approaches also work! There is not one correct way to prepare students for LAMDA Exams…
The video shows the first 40-ish minutes of the meeting where I showed my way of ascertaining the verse form, metre and rhythm of two very different Grade 7 poems (The Football Phone In and Life of a Digger).
Everyone then paired up in breakout rooms to look at a Grade 7 poem from Anthology Vol 19 (as this is the one most students and teachers prefer), and then shared their findings with the group afterwards.
We used this information to populate a spreadsheet so that we had a clear record. This is what we came up with:
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