Subject: English Cycle: C Topic: Poetry – culture and identity (YR7)

WEEK TASK TOP TIPS TAKE IT FURTHER 1 Create a visual representation of What makes you you? What is your personal identity? Can you compare your your identity. This could be a collage, • Clothes identity to someone else you drawing, model, painting etc. • Religion know? Ask them questions to • Family traditions find out what is similar and • Accent different. • Language you speak • Country you were born in • Hobbies 2 What is the Stone Lodge identity and Consider the school RIDES Values, SLANT, our school routines, and the school Can you give examples of how culture? Create a poster or leaflet moto: Successful Lives. the school values set you up that explains the culture and identity for life? at Stone Lodge School for a new teacher joining the school. 3 Presents from My Aunts in Key message: Key techniques Can you write an analytical Pakistan: Using your notes from last What is the writer trying For each technique (simile etc) write the quote paragraph explaining how the week, create a revision mind map that to teach us? What do we and the effect of the technique. writer presents her culture includes the following: learn? as being different? • Key message • POINT Key image(s) Something interesting • Key image • QUOTE What key images stick in What else is interesting about the poem / poet? • Key techniques (and quotes) used • ZOOM your mind and why? Maybe something to do with the structure? • Something interesting about the • TECHNIQUE poem • READER 4 Search for My Tongue: Read each line and consider what emotion or image is being presented. For each section of your Create a story board of the poem. Underneath each section of your story board write a sentence explaining what story board include a quote Use images to link to each part of is happening. from that part of the poem the poem 5 Unrelated Incidents: Look at the following to see what their similarities and differences are: Can you write an analytical Create a comparison between this • Key message paragraph explaining how the poem and one of the other poems we • Techniques used writer presents prejudice? have studied so far. What do they • Structure • POINT have in common, what is different? • Tone • QUOTE • ZOOM • TECHNIQUE • READER Subject: English Cycle: C Topic: Poetry – culture and identity (YR7)

WEEK TASK TOP TIPS TAKE IT FURTHER 6 Love after Love: Key message: Key techniques Can you write an analytical Using your notes from last week, What is the writer trying For each technique (simile etc) write the quote paragraph explaining how the create a revision mind map that to teach us? What do we and the effect of the technique. writer presents her culture includes the following: learn? as being different? • Key message Key image(s) Something interesting • POINT • Key image What key images stick in What else is interesting about the poem / poet? • QUOTE • Key techniques (and quotes) used your mind and why? Maybe something to do with the structure? • ZOOM • Something interesting about the • TECHNIQUE poem • READER 7 Select one of the poems studied so POINT QUOTE ZOOM TECHNIQUE READER Practice you analytical far and create a plan for the In the poem the The writer The word ‘….’ Furthermore, This would writing by turning your plan poet presents the descirbes ‘….’ Suggests… the writer uses make the following essay question: feeling of… which implies… …. to convey… reader feel… into an essay. How does the writer present feelings 1. in the poem? 2. 3. 8 Write a short poem about identity. Use different techniques we have seen in other poets work in your own poem. Can you use an interesting This could be your identity or what It doesn’t have to rhyme! structural technique in your you think identity is. own poem? 9 For each of the poems we have Use your class notes and previous knowledge organiser work to refer back to. studied explain what the key message is and what you have learnt from it Consider whether any of the poems have a similar message. personally.

10 This Room: Look at the following to see what their similarities and differences are: Can you write an analytical Create a comparison between this • Key message paragraph explaining how the poem and one of the other poems we • Techniques used writer presents prejudice? have studied so far. What do they • Structure • POINT have in common, what is different? • Tone • QUOTE • ZOOM • TECHNIQUE • READER