Look at the following 5 images

1. Look at the following 5 images How would you feel living here? How would you describe the place to someone else? Think, Pair, Share.

2. How would you feel living here? How would you describe the place to someone else?

3. How would you feel living here? How would you describe the place to someone else?

4. How would you feel living here? How would you describe the place to someone else?

5. How would you describe the place to someone else? How would you feel living here?

6. How would you feel living here? How would you describe the place to someone else?

7. Bigger Picture • Poetry • Developing an understanding of how poetic techniques create meaning.

8. Learning Outcomes • To be able to understand how the poet creates images of two different places within the poem ‘Island Man’. • To be able to identify how a poet uses description.

11. Annotate the pictures with ideas about feelings, thoughts, lifestyle. You have 2 mins!

12. Island Man

13. Island Man(for a Caribbean Island man in London who still wakes up to the sound of the sea) Morning and island man wakes up to the sound of the blue surf in his head the steady breaking and wombing wild sea birds and fisherman pushing out to sea the sun surfacing defiantly from the east of his small emerald island he always comes backgroggily groggily

14. What QUESTIONS would you ask the Island Man?

15. Comes back to sands of a grey metallic soar to surge of wheels to dull North Circular roar muffling muffling his crumpled pillow waves island man heaves himself Another London Day

16. What QUESTIONS would you ask the Island Man now?

17. Your task • Using the poem, create a picture of the images described. How will I be SUCCESSFUL? • Must annotate with quotations from the poem. • Should be able to explain picture to partner. • Could add extra description to image as well as questions you would ask the ‘Island Man’ now that we have read the whole poem.

18. Island Man (for a Caribbean island man in London who still wakes up to the sound of the sea) Morning and island man wakes up to the sound of the blue surf in his head the steady breaking and wombing wild sea birds and fisherman 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 muffling muffling his crumpled pillow waves island man heaves himself Another London Day Grace Nichols

19. Now… • Share your pictures and ideas. • Be ready to explain each others images to the class. • You have 5 mins!

20. Review • Which examples of description create the best images? Why? • What questions would you ask the Island man now and what do you think the answers would be?