Off By Heart - Poetry Competition - Years 7-9

National Poetry Day is Thursday October 4th...

To mark this event, pupils in Years 7-9 will be learning poems to recite in class in heats for a final to be held on Thursday October 4th.  The two winning pupils will go forward to represent the school in the LB Barnet inter-school poetry recital competition to be held on Weds 14th November 4.30-5.30, in the library at East Barnet School.

The poetry selection from which pupils should choose one poem to practise and learn are:

1. 'The Road Not Taken' - Robert Frost
2. 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' - Wilfred Owen
3. 'Jabberwocky' - Lewis Carroll
4. 'My Mistress' Eyes' - William Shakespeare
5. 'Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone' - W.H. Auden
6. 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' - Wilfred Owen
7. 'Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds' - William Shakespeare
8. 'To Autumn' - John Keats
9. 'There Came a Wind like a Bugle' - Emily Dickinson
10. 'Valentine' - Carol Ann Duffy
11. Own choice of poem

Marks will be awarded as follows:

Presence & Drama - 10

Expression & Paralinguistics - 10

Clarity & Projection - 10

Overall X Factor - 10