A unit for Year 10 Kate Searson Henley High School Protest Poetry A unit for Year 10 Kate Searson Henley High School

What do these images have in common? What are these people doing?

What does “Protest” mean? Create a folder in your English folder called: “Protest”. Find a definition for the word “Protest” and save it in a Word document. Be ready to share your definition. Was your Dig. Exp a form of protest? What did you protest? What did other people in your class protest?

Brutal Realities of Our time This series of images comes from a an albumn on a FB site called Blissinfinite it is called “Brutal Realities of our Times”. I am not sure of the original artists of each individual picture. In your groups discuss the following questions about your picture. Be prepared to share in a few minutes. What is the story or message? What is it protesting against? Is it protesting more than one thing?

Lesson 1 - Protest Poetry Aims: Develop a concept of what protesting is. Discuss some things that people protest. Gain an understanding of the digital poem: With Love From a Failed Planet by Jason Nelson together Scaffold using the Specs and Slims method of analysing a poem to deconstruct With Love From a Failed Planet

Protests in History Why do people protest? What are some famous protests from history? Digital Protest Go to the site: http://www.secrettechnology.com/flanet/ We will look at the work: With Love From a Failed Planet by Jason Nelson together

Open the email Questions on: With Love From A Failed Planet   1. What is the subject of this work? ‘What event, situation, or experience does it describe or record?’ - In general - Choose 2-4 specific examples 2. What is Nelson’s purpose in creating it, what message (s) does he want to communicate? 3. What is the predominant emotion, or mood, of the work? Does the mood change? What emotions or feelings does the Nelson seek to evoke in the reader/hearer? 4. How is it structured? How does this help us understand his messages?

5 - Language - How would you describe Nelson’s use of words — vivid, striking, effective or colourless and predictable? Is the language appropriate to subject and/ or theme? What effect does the language on Nelson reaching his purpose? 6 - Imagery - Are there any striking examples of similes, metaphors, personifications or symbols? What is their effect? 7 - Movement or rhythm - Does this work have a regular (slow or fast) rhythm? What is the effect of any rhythmic qualities? 8 - Sounds - Does this work have any significant sound features? Is it musical? What are the effects of these features of sound on the achievement of the poem? 9 - Summary - Having analysed, With Love from a Failed Planet, it is important to synthesise (i.e. pull all the information together) into a summary. What is the impact of the whole piece for you? How successful is it as a work of art? Does it successfully achieve the poet’s purpose or is it flawed in some serious way?

In Defence of Poetry – Percy Shelley "awakens and enlarges the mind itself by rendering it the receptacle of a thousand unapprehended combinations of thought”  "poets ... are not only the authors of language and of music, of the dance, and architecture, and statuary, and painting; they are the institutors of laws, and the founders of civil society..." ".  "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" 

Brutal Realities of Our time https://www.facebook.com/blissinfinite 17 July 2015