Expanding Our Vocab

YOUR CHALLENGE WORD:

Have a look at the word card that you have been given.

Write the word and your own summarised definition in your book.

Write your word on a post-it and place it next to the image that it best describes

Year 9S1Friday 18th October, PERIOD 1

1. To be able to explain and comment on the writer’s use language

2. To be able to identify and comment on the writer’s purpose and effect on the reader

GROUP ANALYSIS

1. In your groups, highlight and annotate the stanza that you have been given

2. Remember to identify and explain the use of poetic techniques

CHALLENGE: Explain the writer’s purpose and the effect on the reader of the ideas in your stanza/allocated section.

If you are stuck refer to the ‘hint’ questions on the flip side of your analysis sheet.

The sparrow dips in his wheel-rut bath,The sun grows passionate-eyed,

And boils the dew to smoke by the paddock-path;As strenuously we stride, -

Five of us; dark He, fair He, dark She, fair She, I,All beating by.

The air is shaken, the high-road hot,Shadowless swoons the day,

The greens are sobered and the cattle at rest; but not

We on our urgent way, -Four of us; fair She, dark She, fair He, I, are

there,But one - elsewhere

Autumn moulds the hard fruit mellow,And forward still we press

Through moors, briar-meshed plantations, clay-pits yellow,

As in the spring hours – yes,Three of us; fair He, fair She, are, as heretofore,

But – fallen one more.

The leaf drops: earthworms draw it inAt night-time noiselessly,

The fingers of birch and beech are skeleton-thin,And yet on the beat are we, -

Two of us; fair She, I. But no more left to goThe track we know.

Icicles tag the church-aisle leads,The flag-rope gibbers hoarse,

The home-bound foot-folk wrap their snow-flaked heads,

Yet I still stalk the course -One of us … Dark and fair He, dark and

fair She, gone:The rest – anon.

 The sparrow dips in his wheel-rut bath,

The sun grows passionate-eyed,And boils the dew to smoke by the paddock-path;

As strenuously we stride, -Five of us; dark He, fair He, dark She, fair She, I,

All beating by. 

The air is shaken, the high-road hot,Shadowless swoons the day,

The greens are sobered and the cattle at rest; but notWe on our urgent way, -

Four of us; fair She, dark She, fair He, I, are there,But one - elsewhere

 Autumn moulds the hard fruit mellow,

And forward still we pressThrough moors, briar-meshed plantations, clay-pits yellow,

As in the spring hours – yes,Three of us; fair He, fair She, are, as heretofore,

But – fallen one more. 

The leaf drops: earthworms draw it inAt night-time noiselessly,

The fingers of birch and beech are skeleton-thin,And yet on the beat are we, -

Two of us; fair She, I. But no more left to goThe track we know.

 Icicles tag the church-aisle leads,

The flag-rope gibbers hoarse,The home-bound foot-folk wrap their snow-flaked heads,

Yet I still stalk the course -One of us … Dark and fair He, dark and fair She, gone:

The rest – anon.

PARAGRAPH RESPONSE

Explain the way in which the poet has used language to portray a particular point-of-view in the poem

P- topic sentence in response to the question

E- QUOTE and poetic technique/s

Ex- explain the distinctive viewpoint of the poet that is created through the technique and by drawing out particular words and explaining the effect.

Challenge yourself (to push to the PINK step): explain the effects that this particular quote has on the reader (how do it make the reader feel? What does the reader learn from this particular viewpoint?

What are aiming for?“There is a path through the willows and among the sycamores, a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches”

Response: Steinbeck creates an image of a path through trees that is worn down because people have walked on it.

Response: Through the use of “willows” and “among the sycamores” Steinbeck creates the image of a calm and peaceful path that is protected by trees. Steinbeck juxtaposes this with the metaphor “beaten” which makes the path seem worn and damaged as well as busy and boisterous because of all the “boys” from the ranches.

Critical FriendsCircle swap books in your group

1. Peer mark each other’s paragraph by highlighting/underline in different colours the quote, identification of language techniques, explanation of the poet’s viewpoint and the effects on the reader

2. Now refer to the challenge steps below and indicate which challenge step your classmate achieved and write one EBI comment at the bottom. The absolute

minimum(Pushing into Level 5)

• Explanations of inferred meanings based on evidence

• Explanations and comments on effects

• Identifies a poetic technique

The next step(Pushing into Level 6)

• Detailed explanation, comment on effects at word level

• Comments based on textual evidence; consider wider implications; different layers

• Identifies and explains the effects of poetic techniques

Success Criteria

1. To compose a paragraph response that

• includes quotes and explains the effects of language

• comments on the writer’s purpose and effect on the reader

Don’t Forget: TED-Ed Homework

DUE WEDNESDAY 23rd OCTOBER

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