Louise Shumway LIGHT Learning Objective Louise Shumway I
Louise Shumway LIGHT
Learning Objective: Louise Shumway I am learning how to plan ideas and structure a poem about light
Task 1 Think of as many sources of light you can think of. fire torch fireflies matches lightbulb fire city lights
glitter shine flicker flash bright ignite gleam gloss blaze burn shimmer halo radiate Task 2 What words come to mind when you think of the word ‘light’? happiness hope glow sparkle flame glisten twinkle illuminate
1 2 3 Think about these sources of light. Which emotion do you think they might feel? feel Why? Task 3 fear anger hope rage loneliness joy calm peace nervous jealousy 4 5 6
Imagine your source of light is a character Task 4 a When we give human qualities to an object we call it We can transform these objects into living, breathing, thinking and feeling creatures to help us understand ideas. If your source of light could feel, think, observe and talk, what would it have to say? personification
Imagine your source of light is a character Task 4 b What do you look like? REMEMBER FREE VERSE I help to heal hearts, What colour are you? ‘I’ personification My centre glows soft red, What do you sound like? I sound like tears when I begin. REPETITION What do you smell like? I glow, like yellow hope. How do you feel when I smell sweet like Heaven. Used for Touched gently, I am placed you are touched? effect q How do other people feel next to bright flowers. They remember, they remember. when they see you? alliteration I burn brilliantly, q How do you move? reaching into the darkness. q How do you see the Flickering in the tender wind, world? q q q Two stanzas I gleam peace. I hear the prayers, and reflect back hope, a candle of remembrance.
Stanza 1 Task 5 How would you trap it? Would you use helpers, like bees or fireflies? Where would you go? Stanza 2 Now you have sunlight, imagine pouring it into your hands. How would it pour? Slow and sticky like honey, or fast and slick like lemon juice? What would it smell like? Would it be hot, or warm, or glittery? Would it glow? Would it flash like sudden rays? Imagine if you could catch sunlight in a jar. Stanza 3 Now you have sunlight in your hands, imagine walking round on a dark day. You have the power to touch anything, anywhere in the world with a drop of sunlight. What would you touch? What would happen to the things you touch? Stanza 4 Now go to the sink, river or sea and wash off the sunlight. What does it look like mixed with the water? Does it ripple, glow, glisten? What colours do you see? Shapes? Movements?
Get creative! creative Acrostic poem Shining bright Upbeat Rhyming poem Never dull Bright, light S Glow, slow H Shape poem Glitter, bitter Use the words to I Hope, cope create objects or N Ignite, fight sources of light in E Or any other light word! a shape
My Shadow By Robert Louis Stevenson I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow. Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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