1. Poetry of past and future
10 November, 2018
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2. Image 1
Image 2
How would you describe these two different settings? Come up with as many wow words as possible!
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3. Question for Learning: How do I write descriptively about the future?
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Question for Learning:
How do I write descriptively about the future?
Key words:
The future
Utopia
Dystopia
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4. KEY definitions DYSTOPIA
An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad
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UTOPIA
An ideally perfect place
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Write your own definitions of these
key words in your book.
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5. Utopias and Dystopias in Literature1
Individually: read the extract you have been given and decide if it is an example of a dystopia or utopia. In pairs: discuss whether you think this is an example of a UTOPIA or a DYSTOPIA. Look for examples and annotate your text. As a table group: See if you have found the same examples- add to your annotations. Why is this a dystopia/utopia? 2 3
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6. Demonstrate! We Evengy Zamyatin The New Atlantis Sir Frances Bacon
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7. PEE Paragraph
P: write the title of the novel, the author and whether it is a dystopia or utopia. E: quote one of the examples from your group annotations. E: explain why this quotation is an example of an ideal society (utopia) or nightmare society (dystopia).
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8. Plenary: Peer Evaluate.
Swap paragraphs with someone at your table. Fill in the peer assessment chart using traffic lights: Green: Excellent! Yellow: OK! Red: Needs Work!
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9. Homework
Explain how our way of life will have changed in 5 years time, in 50 years time and in 150 years time.
Write one DETAILED paragraph for each time change.
Things to think about:
Laws
Technology
Environment
Fashion
Food
Transportation
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10. Describing The Future STARTER Question for Learning:
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Describing The Future
Question for Learning:
How do I write descriptively about the future?
STARTER
Change the following present tense sentences into the future tense using the verb ‘will’:
1) I sing = I will sing
2) I am eating = I will ____
3) I am going to the cinema =
4) I am living in a happy world =
5) There are flowers in my utopian world =
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11. But, we don’t always know what will happen
Alter the sentences to introduce a CONDITIONAL sense:
1) I sing = I will sing becomes I might sing
2) I am eating =
3) I am going to the cinema =
4) I am living in a happy world =
5) There are flowers in my utopian world =
Try to use a different conditional verb for each sentence. What word would you expect to follow these statements now?
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12. Recap…Can you remember without looking…?
UTOPIA
DYSTOPIA
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13. DESCRIPTIVE TECHNIQUES
similes
personification
alliteration
lists of three
DESCRIPTIVE TECHNIQUES
metaphors
strong verbs and nouns
adjectives
onomatopoeia
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14. Task – Writing to describe
Produce two descriptions of the future:
one description of a utopian future;
one description of a dystopian future.
Remember to use as many descriptive devices as possible.
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15. What might you include?
Utopia
Dystopia
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16. Homework
Choose your favourite description and write it up neatly onto paper. You may illustrate it.
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17. Poetry and the future
10 November, 2018
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18. Why a poem? What is poetry?
Discus with your neighbour and see if you can reach agreement about this question.
“THE BEST WORDS IN THE BEST ORDER”
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19. Think: What are the features of a poem? Are all poems the same? rhyme
rhythm
Divided into verses
POETRY
Strong words
Use a wide range of devices
personal
Convey emotion
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20. 1 hp for best email about Jackie Kay’s life…
Good or Bad?
A hope for the future probably hopes for the best – a Utopia
We will work with a poet called Jackie Kay for much of this term. Her poems explore and very personal future and past – her own.
Dystopia or Utopia?
On the next page, Kay explores her
childhood hopes for the future.
1 hp for best about Jackie Kay’s life…
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21. At Home Abroad,
by Jackie Kay
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22. At Home Abroad
I want you to annotate your poems using the paper provided.
Look for anything that interests you in the writing – a strong word or interesting idea. Make a note of it on the paper.
Then in pairs, discuss the points you have made. Why has Kay made these choices? What effect is she trying to create?
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24. Time for a PEARL
Write two paragraphs in answer to the following question:
How does Jackie Kay use language to create a positive hope for the future?
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25. We dream of a Utopia… We fear a Dystopia
Stressed Out
by Jackie Kay
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26. A teenage Dystopia?
Read the poem carefully and then complete the questions below in full sentences into your exercise book.
1: What do we learn about the parents of the narrator in this poem?
2: In the third stanza, can you explain the metaphors that the poet uses?
3: What are the connotations of the phrase “bullies posted in the playground”?
Answer this final question in detail. You should aim to write 100 to 150 words. Remember to write PEARL paragraphs.
How is Jackie Kay using language
to reflect her childhood in the poem Stressed Out?
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27. Over to you… If poetry is the best words in the best order
You need a good range of words…
Do you remember the lesson when we discussed language used to describe?
I will let you compile your own dystopia/utopia lexicon…
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28. Detail and care in planning
Only the best will do…
Weak words
Said, went, nice, bad are dead, but stronger words live on!
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29. Improving vocabulary
On your colour charts, please improve a weak word as many times as possible.
Start at the bottom and get stronger…
colour charts.docx
growled
hissed
muttered
whispered
said
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30. Before you write a poem of your own…
Let’s look at another of Kay’s poems.
This time she looks back into the past.
Are her schooldays the “happiest days of her life”?
As we read, note down any words or phrases that stick in your mind.
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31. DUNCAN GETS EXPELLED
By Jackie Kay
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32. Dystopia or Utopia? How do you know?
What images remain in your mind when you finish reading?
What choices has Kay made with her language to help her to engage the reader and to get her point across?
Let’s list as many as we can.
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33. An essay:
Write a three PEARL paragraph essay responding to Duncan gets expelled, answering the following question:
How has the poet created a sense of dystopia in this poem?
Think carefully about our conversations and plan… remember that there is one POINT per paragraph.
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34. YOUR TURN Write a poem based on one of these ideas: Hopes and Fears
A Room with a View
The Great Fire
You can plan your poem for the next 20 minutes and should take great care to choose vivid vocabulary!
Your final poem will be submitted on paper and will be illustrated! The best ones will go to the English Newsletter.
GOOD LUCK!
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