Year 9 Poetry Workbook If you can’t print this booklet out, just Name: complete the tasks in your English book, jotter or lined and plain paper. Form: Keep these sheets together to show your English teacher when you get 9A_ back. Any tasks with a next to them are Teacher: tasks you can take a photo of and send to your form tutor! 1 - AJK English Department Contents Page Lesson Poem focus Page(s) 1 Wherever I Hang 4 –18 2 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 19—28 3 The Night Mail 29—39 4 Comparing poems 40—47 2 - AJK English Department In this scheme of work, you will be looking at: Journeys in poetry For AP3, you will be assessed on: ❑ Comparing two poems ❑ Memorising quotations ❑ Explaining what a poem means and what kind of journey the poem is representing ❑ Analysing language in a poem ❑ Analysing poetic language techniques ❑ Link the poem to the time that it was written and who it was written by ❑ Use high level, concise language when explaining your ideas All of this is to support you for your GCSE Literature examination. In the space below, write down any questions that you have for your English teacher. If/when you get a chance to speak to them, you can ask them to help you. Lesson you had the question Question for English teacher 3 - AJK English Department Lesson 1 Do Now: Think back to Romeo and Juliet, Jane Eyre, and Animal Farm. In these stories, who went on a journey? Write down the character and what kind of journey they went on in the table below. The first one is done for you. In the blank spaces, write down any that others that you can think of. Stretch: decide what kind of journey you think it was—emotional, physical or spiritual. Super stretch: why do you think people go on journeys? Emotional, physical or Story Character Journey they went on spiritual journey? Began as a simple pig with a dream and made Animal Farm Napoleon Emotional the journey to become an evil, unfair dictator Jane Eyre Helen Burns Romeo Montague 4 - AJK English Department Do Now: answers Prospero travels from Milan to the island of his shipwreck. Boxer travels from Animal Farm to the knackers. Puck puts a ‘girdle round about the Earth / In forty minutes’ to collect the flower that’s used for the love-potion. Jane Eyre travels from Gateshead Hall to Lowood School. Helen Burns goes to heaven, which she sees as a spiritual journey. Oliver Twist travels from a workhouse, which is seventy-five miles outside of London, to the city. Romeo travels from Verona to Mantua where he is exiled. Why do people go on journeys? To get somewhere To see something or someone To experience new things, including the journey itself To experience new cultures and meet new people To find ‘themselves’ Journeys are crucial to civilisations. People have always travelled and written about their experiences. Here are some examples of famous stories about journeys throughout history. Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ was composed near the end of the 8th Century BC. It tells the tale of Odysseus and his ten year voyage home after the Trojan War. He is confront- ed by natural and supernatural threats which test his bravery and native cunning ‘The Canterbury Tales’ by Geoffrey Chau- to the full, so he can reach his homeland. cer includes stories from twenty four pil- grims, on their way to Canterbury. Devout Christian observers went to see the relics of Saint Thomas Becket there. They jour- ney from the Tabard Inn in Southwark (London) to Canterbury, and tell stories as they go. ‘Jane Eyre’ has several journeys that mark out Jane’s physical and emotion- al development during the novel. She travels from Gateshead Hall to Lowood School. 2020 5 - AJK English Department The poetry we will be studying ranges from those about personal journeys to epic figurative journeys into hell. The first poem is called ‘Wherever I Hang’. It is about someone who comes to England from Guyana. She is an immigrant. An immigrant is a person who moves to live in another country permanently. This may be out of choice or sometimes people are forced to move because of war, natural disasters or financial difficul- ty. When immigrants travel to a new place, they migrate (vb.). The people in the pictures above are mi- grating. Grace Nichols The first poet we will be studying in our anthology is called Grace Nichols. She was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950 and grew up in a small country village on the Guyanese coast. She moved to the city with her family when she was eight. She immigrated to England when she was 27. She worked as a teacher and journalist She often writes about historical themes, her own childhood and the experience of the Afro-Caribbean people. She uses dialect in her poems. The rhythmic nature of Caribbean language influences her poetry too. Grace Nichols has lived in England since 1977, with her partner, the poet John Agard. Dialect = a form of a language that is used in a specific area 6 - AJK English Department Research task: Find and create an information poster/leaflet about Guyana. You could research: - The weather in Guyana - What the culture is like in Guyana - The national flag of Guyana - What religions are practiced in Guyana - What foods people eat in Guyana - What continent Guyana is in - Things that tourists go to see in Guyana - What the traditional outfits are in Guyana 7 - AJK English Department Creative Writing Task Here’s a map showing the journey that Grace Nichols took when she immigrated. How long do you think the journey would take? Research it and write it down here: _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Write down 4 differences between England and Guyana: 1. 2. 3. 4. If you were going on a journey like this, what would you take with you? With a pencil, draw and label what you would take with you on a journey like this: 8 - AJK English Department Now that you’ve prepared for your journey, you need to get travelling! Watch the video below and answer the following questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEnRn3q_wsE The video starts by showing you wildlife. What wildlife is seen in the video that you would not normally see in a country like England? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What is the landscape like in the video? How is it different to a city like London? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The video moves from the countryside to a busier, more populated area. What is the name of this town? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What kinds of things can you do in Georgetown? Make a list. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ After showing us Georgetown, the video moves to the rainforest. What is the name of this rainforest area? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If you could only choose one place from that video to visit, which would it be? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A ticket to Guyana from London and back is £729. You are going with a group of 8 other people. Each person will also need a lunch bag that costs £2.95 each, and a water bottle for £1 each. 6 of your group also want to hire out scooters for 3 days. To rent a scooter for one day costs £39. How much would everything you need for the journey cost altogether? 9 - AJK English Department Imagine that you’ve just woken, washed up at this beach in Guyana. What do you do? Write a short, detailed and creative description of what you do when you first wake up here. Write in first person (I, me, my) and make sure to use your senses when talking about the scene around you! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________