1. Discuss
What is the literal function of a door?
What could a door, or opening a door, metaphorically represent or symbolise?
Have you ever been in a situation when you opened the door on an unexpected situation or experience? What happened?
Have you ever been afraid to open a door? Why?

2. Modelling and Joint Construction

3. Modelling and Joint Construction

4. Modelling and Joint Construction
The Door
Go and open the door.
Maybe outside there’s
a tree, or a wood,
a garden,
or a magic city.
Maybe a dog’s rummaging.
Maybe you’ll see a face,
or an eye,
or the picture
of a picture.
If there’s a fog
it will clear.
Go and open the door.
Even if there’s only
the darkness ticking,
even if there’s only
the hollow wind,
even if
nothing
is there,
go and open the door.
At least
there’ll be
a draught.
Miroslav Holub

5. Modelling and Joint Construction
Text Level
How many stanzas?
How long is each stanza?
How have the ideas been sequenced?
Does the poem rhyme?
Line Level
What kind of sentences have been used?
What is the ‘voice’ in the poem?
What kind of rhythm do the lines have?
Word Level
What kind of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs have been used?
What kind of conjunctions and prepositions have been used?
The Door
Go and open the door.
Maybe outside there’s
a tree, or a wood,
a garden,
or a magic city.
Maybe a dog’s rummaging.
Maybe you’ll see a face,
or an eye,
or the picture
of a picture.
If there’s a fog
it will clear.
Go and open the door.
Even if there’s only
the darkness ticking,
even if there’s only
the hollow wind,
even if
nothing
is there,
go and open the door.
At least
there’ll be
a draught.
Miroslav Holub

6. Modelling and Joint Construction

7. Support Sheet The Door Go and open the door. Maybe outside there’s
__________, __________,
___________________,
or _________________.
Maybe __________________.
Maybe __________________,
or __________,
or _______________
of _______________.
If there’s ___________
it _____________.
Go and open the door.
Even if there’s only
__________________,
even if there’s only
even if
nothing
is there,
go and open the door.
At least
there’ll be
_____________.
Miroslav Holub