Apply the understanding in written and spoken discussions
- Use a curated list of climate change related poetry for analysis using techniques learnt from the previous resource. This list of poems is also available as audio recordings in the voices of celebrities.
- Note: In order to improve your students’ understanding of the climate change theme beforehand, you can give a brief overview using the following educators’ resource by CLEAN Foundation, Canada.
- Reading Climate change background info
- Choose one or more poems from the list of 21 poems, ‘Our melting, shifting, liquid world’: celebrities read poems on climate change’ curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and published by the Guardian, to read in class.
- The poems can be downloaded, and copies prepared beforehand for classroom reading.
- You can also choose to engage your students further by playing audio files (mp3 format) of the chosen poems read out by celebrities- James Franco, Jeremy Irons, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Sheen, Kelly Macdonald, Maxine Peake, Tamsin Greig, Ian Glen, and Iwan Rheon.
- Use the worksheet (from the first resource), ‘Preparing for Poetry’ by NEH to ask your students to analyze the chosen poems.
- Use the completed worksheets to facilitate a classroom discussion on the theme of climate change poetry.
- Further, encourage your students to employ the techniques learnt to prepare an essay on the chosen poem/s.
Melting Glaciers
Reading curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, published in the Guardian, UK