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Begginning Analytical Writing: Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy

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Begginning Analytical Writing: Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy

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Have a read of the attached poem.

I want you to begin to look at the poem from an analytical point of view. Read the poem, read it again, adding annotation on the second reading, then:

-Explain the significance of the title of the poem. Why has Duffy chosen it?

-Explain what you think the poem tell us about love. What kind of emotion is it/what reaction does it create in us?

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Continuing Analytical Writing: PEALing Effectively 

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Continuing Analytical Writing: PEALing Effectively 

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Go through the attached Powerpoint, completing the tasks in your notebook.

I want you to focus on the exemplar 'P.E.A.L' paragraph on slide 9.

From using the exemplar, write down what you think..

-A good 'P.oint' needs to include...

-How to select, show and use good 'E.vidence' (quotation from the text)

-What is literary 'A.nalysis', what does good analytical writing need to include? What should it look like?

-How to 'L.ink' quotations together? Why do we compare/contrast different parts of the poem? How can create productive links?

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Creative Writing- Using a Stimulus Text and Exemplar as Inspiration

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Creative Writing- Using a Stimulus Text and Exemplar as Inspiration

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Use another text by Carol Ann Duffy ('Foreign') as inspiration for your own piece of creative writing. Follow the inctructions for the two tasks in the Powerpoint. Comment on this post with your own paragraph of creative writing.

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Creative Writing Stimulus Text 1- Foreign

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Please watch the video from Mr. Pemberton.

Copy and paste someone's paragraph from the previous task and suggest changes (with explanations as peer feedback).

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Project: Creating Your Own Poems from Image

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Project: Creating Your Own Poems from Image

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Use Shutterstock to search for at least three images that you find visually striking.

Those images should be of ordinary, everyday objects or things that you feel could symbolise something more.

Create a brief portfolio of poetry (three poems, each at least 12 lines long, all must use some sensory language) with your poetry and accompanying images.

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Стоковые изображения, фотографии, векторная графика, видео и музыка | Shutterstock

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Загружайте на Shutterstock лучшие изображения без лицензионных платежей, в том числе фотографии, векторную графику и иллюстрации. Мы предлагаем понятные расценки и удобное лицензирование.

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Summative Assessment: Carol Ann Duffy's Originally

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Summative Assessment: Carol Ann Duffy's Originally

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Summative Assessmnt

Read Originally by Carol Ann Duffy

Create two PEAL paragraphs focused on the experience of the figure in the poem and how they feel about their identity.

Creative Writing- as with your creative writing task, imagine you are in one of the locations within the poem (the 'pebbled-dashed estate' or 'the classroom' are some examples) and write a first-person, past-tense creative piece about your experience.

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Carol Ann Duffy

We came from our own country in a red room
which fell through the fields, our mother singing
our father's name to the turn of the wheels.
My brothers cried, one of them bawling, Home,
Home, as the miles rushed back to the city,
the street, the house, the vacant rooms
where we didn't live any more. I stared
at the eyes of a blind toy, holding its paw.

All childhood is an emigration. Some are slow,
leaving you standing, resigned, up an avenue
where no one you know stays. Others are sudden.
Your accent wrong. Corners, which seem familiar,
leading to unimagined pebble-dashed estates, big boys
eating worms and shouting words you don't understand.
My parents' anxiety stirred like a loose tooth
in my head. I want our own country, I said.

But then you forget, or don't recall, or change,
and, seeing your brother swallow a slug, feel only
a skelf of shame. I remember my tongue
shedding its skin like a snake, my voice
in the classroom sounding just like the rest. Do I only think
I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space
and the right place? Now, Where do you come from?
strangers ask. Originally? And I hesitate.

Carol Ann Duffy

From New Selected Poems 1984-2004 (Picador, 2004). Originally published in The Other Country (Anvil, 1990).
Reproduced by kind permission of the author.

Carol Ann Duffy

The first female, Scottish Poet Laureate in the role's 400 year history, Carol Ann Duffy's combination of tenderness and toughness, humour and lyricism, unconventional attitudes and conventional forms, has won her a very wide audience of readers and listeners.

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Carol Ann Duffy We came from our own country in a red room which fell through the fields, our mother singing our father's name to the turn of the wheels. My brothers cried, one of them bawling, Home, Home, as the miles rushed back to the city, the street, the house, the vacant rooms where we didn't live any more.