English Key stage 3

1. What is a Poem?
• A group of words in a pattern?
• Lines that rhyme?
• A sort of story?
• Something that shows a poet’s feelings?
• Whatever you want it to be?
• Poems come in all shapes and forms, without rhymes as free verse, with rhymes
and in verses, following set shapes or syllable patterns

2. Rhyming Verse
Silver
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams among the silvery thatch;
Walter de la Mare
A Rhyme Scheme shows
the pattern of rhymes at
the end of lines. Every
sound is labelled with a
letter, starting with ‘a’.
A
A
B
B
C
C

3. Free Verse
Our street is dead lazy
especially in winter.
Some mornings you wake up
and it’s still lying there
Saying nothing. Huddled
under its white counterpane.
Roger McGough
Free Verse
doesn’t follow
any patterns.
The street is described like a person so this
technique is called ‘personification’

4. List Poem
What is White?
This could also
be called a
metaphor poem!
White is a dove
And lily of the valley
And a puddle of milk
Spilled in an alley
A ship’s sail
A kite’s tail
A wedding veil Mary O’Neil

5. Haiku
The snow blankets all
Transforming to still beauty,
Dazzling purity
(Three lines with 17 syllables in all 5, 7, 5)

6. Can you remember what techniques this poem
uses?
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams among the silvery thatch;

7. Can you remember what techniques this poem
uses?
Our street is dead lazy
especially in winter.
Some mornings you wake up
and it’s still lying there
Saying nothing. Huddled
under its white counterpane.

8. Can you remember what techniques this poem
uses?
White is a dove
And lily of the valley
And a puddle of milk
Spilled in an alley
A ship’s sail
A kite’s tail
A wedding veil

9. The snow blankets all
Transforming to still beauty,
Dazzling purity

10. LO: Recognising a range of poetic techniques
Onomatopoeia Song
Onomatopoeia is the hard spelling
for an easy thing: sound words!
The Washing Machine
It goes fwunke then slunkey
as the washing goes around.
The water spluncheses,
and it sluncheses,
as the washing goes around.
As you pick it up it splocheses,
and it flocheses,
as the washing goes around.
But at the end it schlopperies,
and then it flopperies
as the washing stops going around.
By Jeffrey Davies
Onomatopoeia words
Try writing down a word (or two representing
the sounds made by each of the following:
a) someone walking on a sheet of corrugated
iron
b) a vacuum-cleaner sucking up the dirt
c) a fisherman throwing out his rod
d) someone trying to start a car which has a
flat battery
e) chalk on a blackboard
f) sausages cooking in a pan
g) someone walking through thick mud
h) a fire burning briskly
i) a kettle boiling

11. Alliteration is the repetition of consonant letters
Name Verb Noun Adverb
Emma eats eggs enthusiastically
David dances disco dramatically
Gary gives gifts generously

12. LO: Distinguishing between similes
and metaphors
Similes and Metaphors in Music

13. Similes and Metaphors
A simile is a comparison where something
is compared to something else, using ‘as’ or ‘like’.
e.g.
feet like flippers
neck like a giraffe

14. Winter Morning
Snowflakes
for breakfast.
The street
outside
quiet
as a
long
white
bandage.
Roger McGough

27. The Beach
The beach is a quarter of golden fruit
a soft ripe melon
sliced to a thick green rind
of jungle growth,
and the sea devours it
with its sharp
sharp white teeth.
William Hart-smith

28. Object Similarity Comparison
Snow Colour A bandage
Covers what is
usually there.
Muffles sound
like a gag
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Object Similarity Comparison
A beach A soft ripe melon
The sea Sharp white teeth

29. Task 1: Kinaesthetic Task
S for SIT = Simile
M for Move = Metaphor
A) Fame is a dream that fades in the morning
B) Lady Gaga is as mad as a hatter
C) Love is like someone is squeezing your heart
D) Fame is X Factor on a Saturday night
E) Winning is a spotlight which blinds you to
everything else
F) Kate Moss is as thin as a rake
G) Peter Andre is as dull as ditch water
H) Life is like a box of chocolates

30. Personification is where you describe some
‘thing’ as alive (like a person or animal’)
The wind stood up
and shook his hair
and flailed his arms
and grabbed at leaves
Clue:
Personification
uses verbs which
can only be
performed by
people are
animals.

31. Task : Copy out the following grid and categorise the metaphors
and similes, putting them in the correct column.
•A motorbike snarls
•like a thunderbolt he falls
•the skin cracks like a pod
•apple-green dress
•struggling like a man on fire
•the wind whips seagulls from the
sky
•cotton wool clouds
•slashed clouds leak gold
•the dandelion stem bleeds milk
•sharp petals like metal shreds
like a bull in a china shop
•ghosts of sunshine
•A classroom is like a beehive
•The classroom was a bomb site
•The beach is a quarter of melon
•As quick as a flash
•Peacock blue
•Forest green
Similes Metaphors Personification

34. • Remember similes, metaphors and
personification

35. LO: Demonstrating an understanding of metaphors
The Beach
The beach is a quarter of
golden fruit
A soft ripe melon
Sliced to a half -moon curve
Having a thick green rind
Of jungle growth;
And the sea devours it
With its sharp teeth
William Hart-Smith
Task 1: What is the beach being compared to?
Task 2: Write out and change the poems so that it
includes similes (‘like’ or
‘as’ instead of metaphors)
e.g. The beach is like a quarter of golden fruit…
Task 3: Read the following and fill in the blanks
A Baby
A story that hasn’t been written
A journey that hasn’t …
A … that hasn’t been learnt
A … that hasn’t been sung
A picture that …
Task 4: Describe the following pictures using a
metaphor
A crane is a …
A butterfly is a …

36. Task 1) Read the following poem extracts and
write down your guess what the theme of the
poem is.
In Praise of Ironing
It has to be loved the
way a laundress loves
her linens,
the way she moves her
hands caressing the
fine muslins
knowing their warp
and woof, VAD

37. It has to be loved as if
it were embroidered
with flowers and birds
and two joined hearts
upon it.
It has to be stretched
and stroked.
It has to be
celebrated.
VAD

38. Archangels then will attend to its
metals
and polish the rods of its rain.
Seraphim will stop singing hosannas
to shower it with blessings and
blisses and praises
and, newly in love,
we must draw it and paint it,
our pencils and brushes and loving
caresses
smoothing the holy surfaces.
VAD

39. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrTsZmxFC5I
In Praise of Ironing
It has to be loved the way a laundress loves her linens,
the way she moves her hands caressing the fine
muslins
knowing their warp and woof,
like a lover coaxing, or a mother praising.
It has to be loved as if it were embroidered
with flowers and birds and two joined hearts upon it.
It has to be stretched and stroked.
It has to be celebrated.
O this great beloved world and all the creatures in it.
It has to be spread out, the skin of this planet.
The trees must be washed, and the grasses and
mosses.
They have to be polished as if made of green brass.
The rivers and little streams with their hidden cresses
and pale-coloured pebbles
and their fool’s gold
must be washed and starched or shined into
brightness,
the sheets of lake water
smoothed with the hand
and the foam of the oceans pressed into neatness.
It has to be ironed, the sea in its whiteness
and pleated and goffered, the flower-blue sea,
the protean, wine-dark, grey, green sea
with its metres of satin and bolts of brocade.
And sky- such an O! overhead- night and day
must be burnished and rubbed
by hands that are loving
so the blue blazons forth
and the stars keep on shining
within and above
and the hands keep on moving.
It has to be made bright, the skin of this
planet,
till it shines in the sun like gold leaf.
Archangels then will attend to its metals
and polish the rods of its rain.
Seraphim will stop singing hosannas
to shower it with blessings and blisses and
praises
and, newly in love,
we must draw it and paint it,
our pencils and brushes and loving caresses
smoothing the holy surfaces.
Pablo Neruda
VAD

40. The poem is what we call an extended metaphor,
where we compare something to something else. ( but
don’t use ‘like’ or ‘as’ with a theme. The poet has used
a mix of ordinary and extraordinary images to tell us
how important the world is to her. Her them starts
with laundry and ends with angels!
Task 2)
List at least 5 things the poet compares
parts of the Earth to.
VAD

41. PLANET EARTH
It has to be
spread out, the
skin of this planet,
has to be ironed,
the sea in its
whiteness;
and the hands
keep on moving,
smoothing the
holy surfaces.
P.K. PAGE
You are going
to produce a
short poem
which uses an
extended
metaphor.
VAD
Remember , a
metaphor is a
direct
comparison
without ‘as’ or
‘like’.
You are going to produce your own extended metaphor
poem about your life.

42. AN Extended Metaphor Poem
e.g.
I think life is a box of chocolates
A baby born is the excitement of
the present…
Careful NOT to use LIKE or AS
Look at the next slide to see
how to set it out
VAD

43. Task 3) Produce a Venn Diagram to help you. Choose a idea and plan it
out like the following
e.g.
VAD
Extended
Metaphor
Theme =
Pacman
Pacman is
computer
games where
you have you
eat as many
power pellets
as possible,
and avoid the
ghosts
chasing you.
The chase = pursuit of
knowledge
Power pellets =
knowledge
Ghosts = the obstacles
in your school life
Success = conquering
your demons, the
ghosts
How are
they
similar?
Life can be
compared
to a
computer
games
because
there are
obstacles to
overcome

44. How are
they
similar?
VAD
Extended
Theme = Metaphor

46. LO: Explore how poets use personification
Personification in songs
Personification is where a
thing is given a person’s
(human) characteristics. The
easiest way to spot it is look
at the verbs (doing words).
Do they sound like something
a person could do!
Verbs!
The wind whistles
The wind moans
The clouds scurried
The shadows crept

47. Winter snuggled
round the warm houses
his eyes seeing;
envying the warm interiors
thinking of his cold being
Winter sharpened
the huge icicles
pointing at the ground;
tending each one carefully
he didn’t make a sound
Winter shuffled
through the streets
turning left and right;
chilling houses on his route
all throughout the night

48. City Jungle
Rain splinters town.
Lizard cars cruise by;
their radiators grin.
Thin headlights stare –
shop doorways keep
their mouths shut.
At the roadside
hunched houses cough.
Newspapers shuffle by,
hands in their pockets.
The gutter gargles.
A motorbike snarls;
Dustbins flinch.
Streetlights bare
their yellow teeth.
The motorway’s
cat-black tongue
lashes across
the glistening back
of the tarmac night.
Pie Corbett
1. Go through and find the verbs in the poem. Write them in your
book.
2. Put a tick or cross next to them, deciding whether they are
something a person could do (tick) or not (x).
3. Look back at where the verb appears in the poem. Next decide
are they part of a personification image. Put a ‘P’ if they are.

49. He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world he stands. The
wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Lord Tennyson
(a crag is a sharp bit of rock on a cliff)
(azure is bright blue)

51. LO: Appreciating the use of enjambment
Enjambment is where the meaning of the line
runs on to the next.
e.g. The river slows, lazy
Oozing
Rippling
Burbling
The river runs, angry
Sliding, spitting, slithering.
Draws attention
to the rhythm/
pace of the
poem
watch from 9mins 25

52. And then
nothing but
silence.
Draws attention
to a specific
moment or idea.

53. The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
William Carlos Williams is famous for very short, simple poems
that force the reader to look at and think about things they
may not otherwise, notice.
1) Is this a poem? If not, why not?
2) What word or phrase draws your attention to the
significance of the wheelbarrow?
3) The enjambment makes you stop and notice, what, in
particular?
4) What could the colours, ideas, or objects in the poem
symbolize? (They may not – the poem may just be designed
to make you imagine the scene like a photo in your head.
What do you think?)
Here are two other poems by Williams but the new lines,
punctuation and enjambment have been left out.
Re-write them using enjambment.
5) As the cat climbed over the top of the jamcloset first the right forefoot carefully then the hind
stepped down into the pit of the empty flowerpot
6) The worm emerged at the foot of the path its clammy pale tailbody flaccid in the new rain
exhausted by the tunnelling basking in the rank wetness and its triumph
7) Write your own enjambment poem – maybe a river, dramatic incident or detailed scene.

55. Lo: Appreciating Sensual Imagery
There are 5 senses and poets use them to make a poem seem more
vibrant (active/ alive).
Make small, QUICK (5 mins) sketches of the 5 senses in a column on the left hand side of your
page. Leave at least 5 lines between your drawings.
Whilst you are
sketching listen to the
poem ‘Mrs Tilscher’s
class’ which is all
about a ‘rite of
passage’; what we
call a significant
change in your life,
usually associated
with growing up.
Mrs Tilscher's Class

56. 1. This poem is full of sensual imagery. Find any phrase which appeals to the 5 senses
and write it down next to your senses sketch. Can you find one for every sense?
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class
You could travel up the Blue Nile
with your finger, tracing the route
while Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery.
Tana. Ethiopia. Khartoum. Aswan.
That for an hour, then a skittle of milk
and the chalky Pyramids rubbed into dust.
A window opened with a long pole.
The laugh of a bell swung by a running child.
This was better than home. Enthralling books.
The classroom glowed like a sweetshop.
Sugar paper. Coloured shapes. Brady and Hindley
faded, like the faint, uneasy smudge of a mistake.
Mrs Tilscher loved you. Some mornings, you
found
she'd left a gold star by your name.
The scent of a pencil slowly, carefully, shaved.
A xylophone's nonsense heard from another
form.
Over the Easter term the inky tadpoles
Changed from commas into exclamation
marks. Three frogs hopped in the
playground,
freed by a dunce,
followed by a line of kids, jumping and
croaking
away from the lunch queue. A rough boy
told you how you were born. You kicked him,
but stared at your parents, appalled,
when you got back home.
That feverish July, the air tasted of electricity.
A tangible alarm made you always untidy,
hot,
fractious under the heavy, sexy sky. You
asked her
how you were born and Mrs Tilscher smiled,
then turned away. Reports were handed out.
You ran through the gates, impatient to be
grown,
as the sky split open into a thunderstorm.

57. I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a colour slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside a poem’s room
and feel the wall for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the
shore.
But all they want to do
is tie a poem to a chair with a rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
To find out what really means. (Billy Collins)
Add more lines to your senses sketches
1. What is the poem about?
2. How does the poet encourage
us to use our senses?
3. Who do you think the ‘I’ and
‘them’ supposed to be?
4. Identify as many similes and
metaphors as you can. What
is the meaning and effect of
the best one?
5. How does the poet encourage
us to use our senses?
6. Look at the line changes. Find
one which you think is
particularly important or
effective and explain why you
think the poet has changed
lines at this point.

59. What do these
pictures all have
in common?
Why has this
object come to
symbolize evil and
temptation?
Why does a tree
often symbolise
schools? Or
universities?

60. LO: Appreciating Symbolism
A symbol is an image, object, etc
that represents itself but also a
more complicated idea.
We ‘expect’ a connection from certain images.

61. Quickly sketch and label 5 of the following symbols and explain how they have a deeper meaning

64. LO: Recognising Symbolism in Poetry
A symbol is something (e.g. an object, colour,
idea) which stands for something else.
= Sunny
Happy
1. A dove symbolizes _______.
2. A heart symbolizes _______.
3. A star symbolizes ______.
4. A tick symbolizes _______.
5. The colour red______.
Come up with 3 more common symbols.

65. These images or ideas are
suggested in the poem
you are going to look at.

66. When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!
'weep!"
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his
head,
That curl'd llke a lamb's back. was shav'd: so
I said
"Hush. Tom! never mind it, for when your
head's bare
You know that the soot cannot spoil your
white hair."
And so he was quiet & that very night,
As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight!
That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned
or Jack.
Were all of them lock'd up in coffins of
black.
And by came an Angel who had a bright key,
And he open'd the coffins & set them all
free;
Then down a green plain leaping, laughing,
they run,
And wash in a river. and shine in the Sun.
Then naked & white, all their bags left
behind,
They rise upon clouds and sport in the
wind;
And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good
boy,
He'd have God for his father & never want
joy.
And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark.
And got with our bags & our brushes to
work.
Tho' the morning was cold, Tom was happy
& warm;
So if all do their duty they need not fear
harm.
The Chimney Sweeper

67. Symbol/ metaphor poem
White is
a dove
and lily of the valley
A clean , fresh milk
bottle left in an alley
The family’s delight at
a ship’s sail
The bride’s look at
her wedding veil.
Write your own
symbol/ metaphor
poem
e.g.
Black is…
Red is…
Love is…

70. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUQM9gO-8Q
Poetic techniques scramble
1. ionalerlitat
2. Naesncoas
3. Onte
4. Mooatoeiaonp
5. Yeraimg
6. Anzsta
7. Bammneenjt
8. emtaorph
9. ancilsibe
10. mtehe
11. rmehy
12. ctrustreru
13. emilsi

71. LO: Demonstrating your understanding of
poetic techniques
Onomatopoeia is a word or words that sound like the
action: snap, zip, bang, whisper, slither, buzz etc.
Alliteration – repetition of letters at the beginning of
a series of words.
e.g. she slid and slithered
Assonance – repeated vowel sounds.
“The teasy bees take their honeyed ease.”

72. A)
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams among the silvery thatch;
B)
Our street is dead lazy
especially in winter.
Some mornings you wake up
and it’s still lying there
Saying nothing. Huddled
under its white counterpane.
Poem c)
White is a dove
And lily of the valley
And a puddle of milk
Spilled in an alley
A ship’s sail
A kite’s tail
A wedding veil

73. a) Crashing through
the darkness the
booming hills
b) ‘you change your
mind like a girl,
changes clothes’
c) Six feet screams
and no-one seems
to hear a thing
d) Tyger, tyger!
Burning bright/ in
the forests of the
night
f) And the silken
sad uncertain
rustling of each
purple curtain
g) A host of golden
daffodils,/ Beside
the lake, beneath
the trees/
Fluttering and
dancing in the
breeze
h) He was my North,
my South,
My East and West,
My Working week
and my Sunday rest
i) I walk this lonely
street
On the Boulvard of
Broken Dreams
When the city sleeps

74. Poetry requires only
courage
enough to leap
from the edge
and trust.
It requires that you
Close your eyes
And imagine
Emerald greens
and blood reds.
That you smell
That jungle growth
Or dreary gutter.
That you make
the connection between
that colour and how
it makes you feel:
that song,
that image of hope,
of peace,
of anger.
It’s not all counting lines
Or seeing signs
Or rhyming words
Or what you heard.
It’s about YOU.
How YOU respond.
How YOU feel.
What You can ‘see’.
Poetry is as individual
as you are .
Read it
and
EXPERIENCE. V. Mann
The Poetry
Experience
1. How does the poet use enjambment
to grab your attention in the first
stanza?
2. Find some examples of metaphors in
the second stanza and why does she
use them?
3. What sensual images is she using in
the second and third stanzas?
4. What examples does she give about
symbolism?
5. How doe s she poke fun at some
people’s misconceptions and
prejudices about poetry in stanza 5?
6. How doe she make the reader feel
involved in stanza 6?
7. What is her ‘message’?
8. Produce 3 PEE statements about how
she uses poetic techniques?

75. Produce a:
Guide to poetic terms for year 6
Or
A poster presentation on poetry
Or
A powerpoint / youtube presentation

77. LO: How to comment effectively on
poems using PEE statements
Aims
• All pupils need to have completed PEE
statements on a familiar poem.
• Some pupils will respond to an unseen poem
with simple PEE Statements.
• Extension : Some pupils will extend their
analysis with further analysis with a P E E E
statement.

78. LO: How to comment effectively on
poems using PEE statements
The poet (or use
their name)
• uses
• Describes
• Emphasizes
• draws a picture
• Illustrates
• employs
• highlights
• portrays
• evokes
Useful
vocabulary for
PEE statements
• Shows
• Presents
• Exposes
• Reveals
• Defines
• Makes
clear

79. City Jungle
Rain splinters town.
Lizard cars cruise by;
their radiators grin.
Thin headlights stare –
shop doorways keep
their mouths shut.
At the roadside
hunched houses cough.
Newspapers shuffle by,
hands in their pockets.
The gutter gargles.
A motorbike snarls;
Dustbins flinch.
Streetlights bare
their yellow teeth.
The motorway’s
cat-black tongue
lashes across
the glistening back
of the tarmac night.
Pie Corbett
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world he stands. The
wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Lord Tennyson

80. Point
Evidence
Explanation
Point
Evidence
Explanation

81. Point
Evidence
Explanation

82. City Jungle
Rain splinters town.
Lizard cars cruise by;
their radiators grin.
Thin headlights stare –
shop doorways keep
their mouths shut.
At the roadside
hunched houses cough.
Newspapers shuffle by,
hands in their pockets.
The gutter gargles.
A motorbike snarls;
Dustbins flinch.
Streetlights bare
their yellow teeth.
The motorway’s
cat-black tongue
lashes across
the glistening back
of the tarmac night.
Pie Corbett
Explain in a PEE Statement
how the poet uses:
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphors
In the poem ‘ City Jungle’, the poet uses…
The poem ‘City Jungle’ is described using…
Corbet evokes the atmosphere of the city by…
Corbet creates a picture in your mind’s eyes of a
dangerous place by using…
See the next slide if you’re stuck for ideas

83. Corbet evokes the dangerous
atmosphere of the city streets at night by
using personification. The cars are
described as ‘lizards’ with grinning
radiators. This creates an unusual image
in our imagination of a monstrous cross
between a scaled creature and a car
which grabs our attention. We forget
how dangerous cars can be , and this
threatening image establishes the wild
and dangerous atmosphere suggested by
the tile ‘City Jungle’.
Point
Evidence
Explanation
Extension

84. • Explain in a PEE Statement how the poet uses:
• Alliteration
• Metaphors
• Similes He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world he stands. The
wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Lord Tennyson

85. LO: Appreciating how tone can affect the reading of a poem
Tone is the term used to describe the emotional atmosphere that is created by a
piece of writing. As you cannot usually hear the writer’s tone of voice, tone comes
from the kind of language used, and the way the poem is structured.
Task 1: Write down any of the following vocabulary which you would expect to
describe a poem about a kite.
playful happy mocking sad romantic assertive
cynical serious sarcastic light-hearted bitter
soothing aggressive conversational humorous
confident calm intimate solemn
Dramatic gloomy nostalgic heavy religious

86. Kites are often used as similes and metaphors. Read the following
famous quotations about kites.
“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite
will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his
kite will fall.”
I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid
was really excited. I don't know why. That's what they're
supposed to do. Now if he had had a chair on the other
end of that string, I would have been impressed.
“True courage is like a kite; a
contrary wind raises it higher.”
Imagination is the highest
kite one can fly
"You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind
and have a weight to keep it from turning a
somersault. The same with man. No man will
succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome
difficulties and is prepared to assume
responsibilities."
Write down two similes. Write down one metaphor.
Kites are often used to represent other ideas in life. Read the poems and be prepared to
explain what the quotes are trying to represent.

87. Task 3: Now you’ve seen what kites can represent, add some ideas to a spidergram
in your books.
Freedom childhood
Adversity
Task 4: Listen to the reading of a poem entitled ‘A kite is a victim’ and
write down any other words which could be used to describe its tone.
(Look back at the previous slide for vocabulary).
A kite is a ...

88. A kite is a victim you are sure of.
You love it because it pulls
gentle enough to call you master,
strong enough to call you fool;
because it lives
like a desperate trained falcon
in the high sweet air,
and you can always haul it down
to tame it in your drawer.
A kite is a fish you have already caught
in a pool where no fish come,
so you play him carefully and long,
and hope he won’t give up,
or the wind die down.
A kite is the last poem you’ve written
so you give it to the wind,
but you don’t let it go
until someone finds you
something else to do.
A kite is a contract of glory
that must be made with the sun,
so you make friends with the field
the river and the wind,
then you pray the whole cold night before,
under the travelling cordless moon,
to make you worthy and lyric and pure.
(Leonard Cohen)
• Choose a quotation from each stanza of the poem
which you could use in a PEE Statement.
• Draw a sketch to illustrate it.

89. LO: Using quotations to illustrate your
understanding of a poem
In the first stanza of the poem, Cohen uses a simile to
describe the kite, describing it as living ‘like a desperate,
trained falcon in the high sweet air.’ This negative image
creates a melancholy tone for the reader, as the image of
a naturally impressive and powerful bird such as a falcon
being ‘trained’ can be regarded as a deeply depressing
image. The quotation also places the blame for this
unpleasant image firmly onto humanity as we are the only
ones capable of training and constricting the freedom of
such a bird. The use of the word ‘desperate’ adds to this
sense of helplessness. The effect of this is highlighted by
the contrasting images of the ‘desperate , trained falcon’
and the more positive ‘high sweet air.’ The quotation can
be seen as part of an extended metaphor for relationships,
particularly focussing on the idea that in a relationships
one person may like to control the other, and that what
may seem like a positive image of freedom, may on closer
inspection, just be restricting form of control.
Point
Evidence
Explanation
Extra
Analysis
Write a PEE statement paragraph for each of the quotations you
chose.

90. Task 5
Write a 50 word summary of the
poem. You must use 3 of the following
words:
• Control relationships
• Freedom constriction
• Metaphor power

92. ‘Island Man’ LO: Recognise how colour and imagery are
used in ‘Island Man’

93. Look at the following images and think about the title
of the poem. What is appealing / positive about the
island?these images?

94. What is appealing /
positive about the
images here?

95. “Island Man” – Grace Nichols
Morning muffling muffling
and island man wakes up his crumpled pillow waves
To the sound of blue surf island man heaves himself
In his head
The steady breaking and wombing Another London day.
Wild seabirds
And fishermen pushing out to sea
The sun surfacing defiantly
From the east
Of his small emerald island
He always comes back
Groggily groggily
Comes back to sands
Of a grey metallic soar
to surge of wheels
To dull North Circular roar
Island man

96. Caribbean London
First
impressions
Lush
Fertile
Oppressive
polluted
Positive
words
Negative
words

97. Morning
muffling muffling
and island man wakes up
his crumpled pillow waves
To the sound of blue surf
island man heaves himself
In his head
The steady breaking and wombing
Another London day.
Wild seabirds
And fishermen pushing out to sea
The sun surfacing defiantly
From the east
Of his small emerald island
He always comes back
Groggily
groggily
Comes back to sands
Of a grey metallic soar
to surge of
wheels
To dull North Circular roar
1. What colours are associated with his
‘island’? What colours are associated
with London?
2. The Island Man is dreaming and wakes
up. What has he dreaming about.?
What did he imagine the sound of
London traffic was?
3. How has enjambment been used in
stanza 1?
4. The poem has an unusual setting out
where the lines look as though they are
pulling the ‘Island Man’ apart. Why does
he feel ‘torn’?
5. Womb is where a baby develops. What
is the symbolism of this word being
used? What do you associate with the
word? Which place is it associated with?
6. Find an example of alliteration in the
poem.
7. Find an example of personification.

98. ‘Island Man’ is a poem written by Grace Nichols. It is about a man who
wakes up from a dream about his ______1__________.
His home is made to sound beautiful by the use of ‘emerald island’ which
is an example of a ____2___. Also, to make it sound peaceful, Grace
Nichols uses unusual onomatopoeia such as _____3____ . She also uses
____4____ like the “sun surfacing’ to draw attention to the beautiful
sunrise.
During the poem, the man wakes up. This is shown using onomatopoeia
“____5_______”.There is also repetition to show
just how tired the speaker is. When the man wakes, it is made to
seem a dream and the reality is London which is described with colours
such as _____6_______to make the city seem dark and dismal. It is also
noisy, we know
this because the traffic of the North Circular is described as a
“_________7________”. The man is made to seem very unhappy about
waking in London as he “_________8___________” himself out of bed.

99. ‘Island Man’ is a poem written by Grace Nichols. It is about a man who
wakes up from a dream about his beautiful Caribbean island.
His home is made to sound beautiful by the use of ‘emerald island’ which is an
example of a metaphor. Also, to make it sound peaceful, Grace Nichols uses
unusual onomatopoeia such as wombing . She also uses alliteration like the
“sun surfacing’ to draw attention to the beautiful sunrise.
During the poem, the man wakes up. This is shown using onomatopoeia
‘groggily, groggily’ .There is also repetition to show just how tired the speaker
is.
When the man wakes, it is made to seem a dream and the reality is London
which is described with colours such as ’grey’ to make the city seem dark and
dismal. It is also noisy, we know this because the traffic of the North Circular is
described as a “roar”. The man is made to seem very unhappy about waking in
London as he “heaves” himself out of bed.

100. The alliteration “___1_________________”
makes the poem sound ______2________.
The ‘s’ sounds sound like the
________3_________ lapping the shore.
The onomatopoeia that is used is
“______4______________” makes the
man sound really ________5_______and slow
to show the man isn’t enthusiastic about his
day in London. This is also an example
of repetition to show how
____________6_____________ the
Island Man is.
tired
waves
peaceful
tired
groggily groggily
sun surfacing
Level 5c and below
Copy out and fill in
Level 5b and above.
Come up with your
own PEE statements
about how the poet
uses language

101. Writing using PEE Statements Mini-Assessment
In ‘Island Man’ , Grace Nichols uses language to show how
much the speaker misses his island. When describing the
island, she uses the words ‘his small emerald islnnd’. The
use of the possessive pronoun ‘his’, shows that he still feels
he belongs to the island; and that it belongs to him. He
feels a sense of wonership towards it which shows how
much he loved it there. The word ‘emerald’ has a number
of connotations. It creates a picture in the mind of the
reader of how luch, green and verdant the island is . It also
….
Continue with a mini- assessment where you use at least 3
PEE paragraphs.

103. LO: Reviewing My Progress
This is an honest review of
how I think I have worked:
• Effort /10
• Attainment /10
• Equipment /10
• Homework /10
• Listening Skills /10
• Organisation /10
Look through your work (BOTH books
and your homework) and write out the
targets you have been given.
My target is ________
I will do this by ___
Spellings I will keep a
spelling diary at the
back of my exercise
book and learn
frequent spelling
mistakes
I will try and use a
thesaurus, dictionary
or a more
sophisticated or
unusual word to
widen my vocabulary.
Sentence Starters:
Proof read my work to
check for different
sentence beginnings
Imagery/ Description:
Try to use powerful
adjectives, and original
similes and metaphors
Sentence punctuation:
I need to proof read my
work and look for pauses
to put in full stops
and/or commas
Punctuation for speech:
I need to look in my
book for rules for
speech
Paragraphs: I need to
check that I have a new
paragraph for a :
• new time
• new place
• new idea
• new speaker
I need to put NP and //
where they should be

104. Onomatopoeia is a word or words that sound like the action:
snap, zip, bang, whisper, slither, buzz etc.
Alliteration – repetition of letters or phases at the beginning of a
series of words.
Assonance – repeated vowel sounds.
“The teasy bees take their honeyed ease.”
Repetition – using the same word or phrase more than once.
“Into the deep, deep ocean.”
M Rathor
Chapel-en-le-Frith High

105. You are going to write an argument using speech marks in your English
books. Here is what your argument needs to be about:
REMEMBER TO USE SPEECH MARKS WHEN SOMEONE IS
TALKING!!!
1. Alice and James are cross with each other.
2. Alice thinks that James stole her pen
3. James is cross because Alice has accused him of this.
4. James did not steal the pen.
5. Alice doesn’t believe James.
6. She tells him she thinks he is a thief.
7. He tries to explain that he didn’t take it.
8. She insists that he did.
9. He tells her to look in her pencil case again.
10. She asks him why she should.
11. He tells her to do it.
12. She looks in her pencil case.
13. She finds it.
14. She tells James that she is sorry.
15. He says that he’s upset because she didn’t believe him

106. Using Similes and Metaphors to Describe

107. Alice falls down the rabbit hole into a wonderful adventure.
a)You are going to describe 3 main characters, using similes and
metaphors.
b) You are then going to use the skills you have revised, to write
your own description of ‘Wonderland’

108. Hair as red as __
His face was
____ white
The leather of his
hat looked like
____________
Eyebrows like
_________
A cravat (tie)
with colours
like ____
Long fingernails
like ______

109. A head the
shape of a ___
Hair as red as
___
Skin as white
as _______
Eyeshadow as
blue as the
_____
Jewels which
twinkled like
________

110. Teeth like a row
of ______
Eyes As green
as ______
Stripes which
looked like
_____
A smile as wide as a ______

112. Describe the strange world Alice finds herself in. Try
to use similes and metaphors.
Once you have finished, design a poster for display.

113. Skills

114. Concrete poems
• The term "concrete," in reference to a poetic form, implies that there is
something tangible or solid for the reader to observe. Concrete poetry is
considered a work of graphic art because it relies upon a visual, more than
a traditional auditory, mode of presentation. The meaning of a concrete
poem is difficult to grasp without viewing its arrangement on paper
because concrete poems are a hybrid of literary and visual art.5 For
instance, the gentle fall of rain could be effectively depicted in a concrete
poem as words sprinkling across the page in the shape of raindrops.
•
• A concrete poem is a poem that forms a picture of the topic or follows the
contours of a shape that is suggested by the topic.
•
• Concrete poetry involves arranging the letters or words that describe an
object into a visual image that also describes the object. It is a kind of
painting with letters or words as the medium.

115. Now finish off the story. It’s up to you what happens!
Verbs: asked shouted screamed yelled bellowed
cried demanded answered replied apologised said
Adverbs: quietly loudly slowly regretfully tearfully
happily angrily