Throwing a Tree By Thomas Hardy Content Domain

Throwing a Tree By Thomas Hardy Content Domain Mixed

Flick the page over Look for three seconds – What kind of text do you think this is? Why? Organisation of the text • What is the purpose of the text? • What form is the text written in? • Who do you think it is aimed at (audience)?

Now let’s read it together Be ready for ‘take overs’ STANZA ONE VOCABULARY Executioners - an official who carries out a sentence of death. Knolls - a small hill or mound. Limp - walk with difficulty, typically because of a damaged or stiff leg or foot. Boles - the trunk of a tree. hilli Challenge - What word class do they belong to?

Text Flick Skim the text to find the answers to the following questions (you may want to note down the questions) The answers to these text flick questions will only be about slides 4 and 5. • How many axes were the executioners baring? (Number) • What was the saw like? How big was it? (Adjectives and Amount) • Where do the chips fall? (Location, Place/Nouns) You have twenty seconds!

Text Flick Question 1 - How many axes were the executioners baring? What am I looking for here?

Text Flick Question 2 - What was the saw like? How big was it? What am I looking for here?

Text Flick Question 3 - Where do the chips fall? What am I looking for here?

Supported questions 1) Find and copy word from the second stanza that means the same as cut. (1 mark) Miss Merry’s time to shine! 2) How is the tree described in the first stanza? (1 mark)

Supported questions Answers 1) Chop 2) Proud

Independent Questions Your time to shine!

1)What tools are used in the poem? (2 b) (1 mark)

2) Find and copy a word which has a similar meaning to ‘remove’. (2 b) (1 mark) 3) Give two pieces of evidence from the text which shows that chopping the tree down is difficult. (2 d) (2 marks)

4) ‘But the tree only quivers’. What do you think the writer is trying to suggest and why? (2 d/g) (2 marks)

5) How long did the tree felling take? (2 b) (1 mark) 6) Why do you think the tree had to be cut down? (2 d) (1 mark) 7) Are Job and Ike portrayed as good or bad people in the poem? Explain your answer. (2 d)

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