InstaPoetry

Years 9 - 10

Three Week workshops

Old Workshop brief:

Students are introduced to InstaPoetry exploring the inventive ways the multimodal nature of Instagram is being used by young poets to share their writing and experiences. Students are inspired by a range of poets who kickstarted their careers by sharing short and accessible poems shared as images. Introduce diverse voices into your classroom, including working class, brown and migrant women, self-published poets Alex Elle, Emily Byrnes and Nikita Gill, who has over 820 000 followers and has captured the attention of a generation. 

In this structured workshop with scaffolded worksheets covering key poetic literary modes and techniques of anaphora, negation, alliteration, lyricism and metaphor students have the opportunity to delve into the presentation of their writing, contemplating graphic design and imagery. Students create a suite of poems which reflectively engage with their own experiences in a safe environment.

• Australian Curriculum Outcomes

  Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)

  Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)

  Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue (ACELT1791)

• NSW Syllabus Outcomes

  Analyses how meaning is created through the use and interpretation of increasingly complex language forms, features and structures (EN5-URA-01)

  Crafts personal, creative and critical texts for a range of audiences by experimenting with and controlling language forms and features to shape meaning (EN5-ECA-01)

  uses processes of planning, monitoring, revising and reflecting to purposefully develop and refine composition of texts (EN5-ECB-01)

• Sample Student Writing

  Brisbane Summer

  The hum of the cicada's midnight song

  The purr of the tow cat I so long

  The thunder that accompanies the rain

  The squeal of my brothers when the puppy arrived

  The crash of Lego being poured on my floor

  The sound of the school bell for time to go home

  The bark of the puppy, so small in my arms

  The clatter of kids running down the stairs

  The sound of animal jam finally loading

  The springs of the trampoline going up and down

  That is my Brisbane summer.

  -Anon, Year 9, HERRD Homeschool Group, 2023

Available in Semester 2, 2025.