Poetry By Heart
0 Poetry By Heart
You can unlock this achievement up to three times by learning a poem by heart and performing it in front of your class. Poems should be at least 10 lines long. You are expected to perform with NO major inaccuracies and a maximum of ONE Minor inaccuracy.
- Minor inaccuracies include:
• Confusing a pronoun (‘he’ instead of ‘she’)
• Confusing an article (‘a’ instead of ‘the’)
• Pluralising a word or vice versa (‘kangaroo’ instead of ‘kangaroos’)
• Replacing a word with a similar word (‘jump’ instead of ‘leap’)
• Confusing word order (‘pans and pots’ instead of ‘pots and pans’)
• Missing out a word
• Repeating a word
• Adding a word
- Major inaccuracies include:
• One line out of order
• Repeating a line
• Skipping a line, or three or more words in the same line
• Reversing two stanzas
• Missing out a stanza
Examples of poetry by heart that have unlocked this achievement:
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Judging criteria gratefully adapted from “Poetry by Heart”.