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Lesson 5 – Summer Term Poetry Carol Rumens

Lesson 5 – Summer Term Poetry Carol Rumens

� Pause for thought/theme guessing – 5 mins � Read poem carefully – 5

� Pause for thought/theme guessing – 5 mins � Read poem carefully – 5 mins � Watch Mr Bruff – 15 mins � Further annotations – 15 mins � Push your thinking – 10 mins � Complete the sentences – 10 mins � “Homework” consolidation – 30 mins

� It’s been 5 weeks since you’ve attended school normally. � List the first

� It’s been 5 weeks since you’ve attended school normally. � List the first 10 things that come to mind when you think of normal school. � How many of them are positive things, how many are negative?

� ? ? ? � Read the poem on the next slide to see

� ? ? ? � Read the poem on the next slide to see if you can uncover the dominant theme of the poem.

� ? ? ? � Read the poem on the next slide to see

� ? ? ? � Read the poem on the next slide to see if you can uncover the dominant theme of the poem.

� There once was a country… I left it as a child but my

� There once was a country… I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight-clear for it seems I never saw it in that November which, I am told, comes to the mildest city. The worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view, the bright, filled paperweight. It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but I am branded by an impression of sunlight. � The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes glow even clearer as time rolls its tanks and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves. That child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar. Soon I shall have every coloured molecule of it. It may by now be a lie, banned by the state but I can’t get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight. � I have no passport, there’s no way back at all but my city comes to me in its own white plane. It lies down in front of me, docile as paper; I comb its hair and love its shining eyes. My city takes me dancing through the city of walls. They accuse me of absence, they circle me. They accuse me of being dark in their free city. My city hides behind me. They mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.

� Plaice (place) � Memory (she sings this song in an apparently TERRIBLE film

� Plaice (place) � Memory (she sings this song in an apparently TERRIBLE film of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical CATS) � And hopefully you found that you’d listed mostly the POSITIVE things about normal school – like this speaker does about her home city.

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https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Rf. IJ 8 i. XLf. Lc

� Highlight all of the references to sunlight, lightness or whiteness. � Highlight any

� Highlight all of the references to sunlight, lightness or whiteness. � Highlight any references to darkness and areas of specific contrast between dark and light. � Find images of stability and of instability � Find words from the SEMANTIC FIELD of war. � Choose the 5 most effective VERBS and explain why you have chose them – what do they communicate? � Track the personification of the city (Mr Bruff didn’t mention them all. ) How is the city characterised?

� Sunlight-clear, bright, sunlight, coloured molecule, sunlight, shining, sunlight � L 23 -25 �

� Sunlight-clear, bright, sunlight, coloured molecule, sunlight, shining, sunlight � L 23 -25 � Paperweight, war, tyrants, branded, spills, paper, shadow � War, tyrants, tanks, frontiers, banned, state, accuse, death � Break, sick, branded, spills, banned, tastes, lies, comb, love, takes me dancing, hides, mutter � Lines 7, 187, 19, 20, 21, 24

� What here? � Why of? is synaesthesia and where does it apply refer

� What here? � Why of? is synaesthesia and where does it apply refer to a doll? What are dolls symbolic � What if, after the caesura on line 27, “they” refers to the inhabitants of her host rather than her original country? The pronouns make this ambiguous. What different messages do the two readings give regarding migration?

� Carol Rumens may have written the poem: � to criticise… � to teach…

� Carol Rumens may have written the poem: � to criticise… � to teach… � to warn… � to reveal the importance of… � to celebrate…

Copy out these quotations and annotate them as flashcards or as a poster. Try

Copy out these quotations and annotate them as flashcards or as a poster. Try to include what they show about the power of place or memory or about the impact of conflict.