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Downloadable Resource | Activity Pack for Junior Certificate Students: Analyse the Poetry of WB Yeats

Audience
Post Primary
Resource Type
Downloadable Resource
Price
Free
Audience
Post Primary
Resource Type
Downloadable Resource
Price
Free
A National Library of Ireland branded page features a sketch of a young WB Yeats, with text and photographs
Online
Introduction Text
Engage with the poetry of WB Yeats through this downloadable activity pack.

This downloadable activity pack explores the poetry of WB Yeats through creative and academic exercises. This resource includes a useful glossary of poetic terms. The activity pack is for Junior Cycle English students, and anyone studying Yeats at a post-primary level.

It is designed as a standalone activity, and it also complements a visit to the NLI’s exhibition, YEATS: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats, whether in person or online. Students can use the pack as a classroom activity or explore it independently. For further information, please see the Information for Teachers guide below.

Curriculum Links: Junior Cycle English, with cross-curricular links to History

This activity pack is free to download. To request a version of this activity pack that can be filled in on a computer or tablet, or to request a pack with a different selection of Yeats poems, email learning@nli.ie.

Download: Activity Pack

Download: Information for Teachers

 If we can be of any assistance, please contact us at learning@nli.ie