1. How can people be different? colour height religion intelligence wealth sexuality gender sporting ability

2. Learning Objectives To understand everyone is different in some way To be able to think like a person who is different from myself

3. IRONY Irony means ‘funny’ Not ‘laughing-at-a-joke’ funny… …but ‘isn’t it funny that…’

4. Why is stanza 6 ironic? Because the bully teases other children about their English… …while his or her own English is incorrect!

5. What about the other stanzas? Is there any other irony in the poem? Is the whole poem ironic?

6. Your turn Imagine you’re one of the children who is being bullied in the poem Write a poem called ‘It Ain’t Funny’ In your poem, try to show the bully two things: - How you feel about your difference - That in other ways, you’re the same

7. A stanza to show feelings It ain’t funny you can walk And hop and skip and jump and feel The grass, the sand, a ball, the waves When my feet are these two wheels

8. A stanza to show you’re the same But there’s lots that we can share Our school, our friends, our dreams, our lives And when I close my eyes I can Take off and wheel across the sky

9. A Final Couplet Which Uses Irony So ain’t it funny that you walk Away from me when I can fly