Teaching Notes
How to use this resource
This resource, Engaging with Poetry – odes, is designed to support the Digital Education
Revolution – NSW (DER-NSW). The resources and tasks are aimed at supporting student use
of laptops in both online and offline classroom environments.
If you have difficulty viewing this resource on the laptop screens, you can switch your web
browser to full screen mode. With your web browser open, press F11 to switch between
normal and full screen mode.
For more detailed support on how to use the DER-NSW laptop software referred to in this resource
please visit the TaLe Tools+ site. If you have a Department of Education and Training portal identity
go to www.tale.edu.au > log in to the Secondary section > Tools+ is a link in the top right of the page.
If not, visit the Parents & community section of TaLe and choose the quick link to DER-NSW laptop
resources on the right side of the page.
Explore
This section links to the CLI resource Passionate Poetry where they can find out more
information about the ode and discover in particular John Keats’ ode To Autumn.
Your tasks
Students can click on either the icons or the hyperlinked text to view each task in a pop-up
window.
1
Students need to access the section on ‘Odes’ from CLI’s Passionate Poetry (NSW DET
only). Here they will find information about odes. In the section titled To Autumn, they
will find information about Keats and his poem.
The task asks them to read To Autumn and then drag and drop callouts to annotate the
poem.
2
Students need to access the section on Odes from CLI’s Passionate Poetry. They can
choose another one of the odes presented here. They record a reading of the poem that
conveys its meaning to the listener using Audacity on their laptops. As a group, the
class can listen to the reading and discuss how well the meaning of the poem was
conveyed.
3
Students can select a poem from the section on Odes in Passionate Poetry or they may
choose a poem from one of the websites provided. They prepare a multimedia
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presentation on the poem of their choice using Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe
Presenter.
Teaching resources
TaLe
Passionate Poetry (NSW DET only) has more information on the ode. You can access it on
TaLe by typing in its title Passionate Poetry or by using the number 3155. One section of this
resource is dedicated to the ode.
Other resources
This website has copies of Keats’ poetry.
The ABC’s A Pod of Poets has Australian poetry and poetry readings.
The Poetry Archive and the Poetry Foundation have a range of resources designed for
students.
Engaging with Poetry – odes
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