1. A/A* English Language Paper 2: Writing to Describe – Lesson 4 Selection and Point of View Starter: Children’s Games Generate ideas and words that you associate with this topic.

2. Children’s Games (1962) This is a schoolyard crowded with children of all ages near a village on a small stream meandering by where some boys are swimming bare-ass or climbing a tree in leaf everything is motion elder women are looking after the small fry a play wedding a christening nearby one leans hollering into an empty hogshead William Carlos Williams TASK: Read the poem and comment on the language

3. Children’s Games This is a schoolyard crowded with children of all ages near a village on a small stream meandering by where some boys are swimming bare-ass or climbing a tree in leaf everything is motion elder women are looking after the small fry a play wedding a christening nearby one leans hollering into an empty hogshead William Carlos Williams TASK: Where should the punctuation be?? Justify your answer

4. Children’s Games This is a schoolyard crowded with children of all ages near a village on a small stream meandering by where some boys are swimming bare-ass or climbing a tree in leaf everything is motion elder women are looking after the small fry a play wedding a christening nearby one leans hollering into an empty hogshead William Carlos Williams What is the effect of breaking these sentences into lines and leaving out the punctuation? Which words are emphasised? What is the effect of breaking up a phrase like “looking after”? What effect do the line breaks have on “meandering by”? What effect does the three line stanza structure have? What is the effect of using lots of participles?

5. Pieter Bruegel, Children's Games (1560)

6. Point out, in the painting, what has been mentioned so far. Looking at the painting as a whole - Where does your eye naturally fall when you first look? Where does Williams start? Why do you think he does this?

7. Sections II and III In groups of 3 you should analyse your section in the same way that we analysed section 1. Focusing on: Language Structure What are the key differences between your section and section 1?

8. The ending (them) Brueghel saw it all and with his grim humor faithfully recorded it TASK: Which word is repeated? What is the effect of this? What does “it” refer to?

9. Plenary What is the mood at the beginning of the poem? What is the mood at the end of the poem? How does this compare with the mood of the painting?