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Lesson 15 War Poetry

The document outlines learning intentions related to analyzing the poem 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy, focusing on identifying techniques, explaining the writer's message, and analyzing language. It includes various tasks such as sensory descriptions, video responses, and annotation activities aimed at deepening understanding of the poem's themes and techniques. Additionally, it encourages independent work and critical thinking through questions about imagery, light and darkness, and the overall theme.

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Lesson 15 War Poetry

The document outlines learning intentions related to analyzing the poem 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy, focusing on identifying techniques, explaining the writer's message, and analyzing language. It includes various tasks such as sensory descriptions, video responses, and annotation activities aimed at deepening understanding of the poem's themes and techniques. Additionally, it encourages independent work and critical thinking through questions about imagery, light and darkness, and the overall theme.

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War

photographer
Learning Intentions

1: To be able to identify techniques in the poem

2: To be able to explain the writers message in


the poem.

3: to be able to analyse techniques used in the


poem.
War Photographer

Choose One

Evacuation has been enforced – you are either the child or Identify 3 language techniques used on this
the parent in this situation. Describe the scene at the train poster
station using the 5 senses and emotive language. Explain the overall message of this poster.
Sentence starter: The smell of the coal engines fills the air…
Evaluate how this poster might be seen to be
End manipulative.
5
Make sure you check your spelling and punctuation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kxZMP4wyQ

1. Write down all the sounds you hear.


2. How do you feel?
3. What does it present to you?
4. What would you do if you heard it?

Challenge: When you write down the sounds, use a simile


to describe them
What is this poem about? Write what you see
Feelings task
Watch the following video and answer one of the following
questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vvm3wSQlr4

1. How do you feel from watching it?


2. What images are effective?
3. What poetic language techniques are used?

Sentence starter:
I feel……. because……
Annotate task (5 minutes)

In pairs, you are to annotate this poem for any


techniques that we have studied so far.

Underline and pull apart the poem to find the true


meaning..

Challenge: Say the reason for why that technique is used


In his dark room he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
The only light is red and softly glows,
as though this were a church and he
a priest preparing to intone a Mass.
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass.
He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays
beneath his hands, which did not tremble then
though seem to now. Rural England. Home again
to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel,
to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet
of running children in a nightmare heat.
Something is happening. A stranger’s features
faintly start to twist before his eyes,
a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries
of this man’s wife, how he sought approval
without words to do what someone must
and how the blood stained into foreign dust.
A hundred agonies in black and white
from which his editor will pick out five or six
for Sunday’s supplement. The reader’s eyeballs prick
with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.
From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where
he earns his living and they do not care.
Independent Work

Can you find quotes to support the following:

What religious
How is light How and why is imagery is used
and darkness England a focal and what effect What is the
point in the poem? does it have on overall theme
used? within the the reader? of the poem
poem and what does and how do
it suggest? you know?
Sentence starter: This quote
shows that…
Carousel task

What is the overall theme of the poem and how do you know?
Carousel task

Create a question about the poem that you think would be quite
challenging in an exam – remember that it is a question that you
could answer yourself!
Carousel task

What imagery is used and what effect does it have on the reader?
Carousel task

How and why is England a focal point in the poem?


Carousel task

How is light and darkness used within the poem and what does it
suggest?
To finish..

Write down 3 questions you would ask


Carol Ann Duffy about this poem so far.

Question 1…
Question 2…
Question 3…

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