Shooting Stars Carol Anne Duffy

1. Shooting Stars Carol Anne Duffy

2. We are learning to: • Identify questions for Shooting Stars. • Plan a CEL for Shooting stars • I can: select appropriate questions and write an effective CEL on Shooting Stars.

3. Example Essay: Shooting Stars • As a group, you are going to read the sample Shooting Stars essay. • Think about the essay you just wrote for SOH. • Make a list of the following information: • Does this person refer to the question? [EXAMPLE?] • Do they refer to poetic techniques? [EXAMPLE?] • Successful elements of essay? [EXAMPLE?] • What this essay does that you are going to apply to your essay?

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5. Individual Task • Imagine you have been given the following essay question: • Choose a poem which deals with an important issue such as war, crime, poverty, or racism. • Explain how the poet deepens your understanding of the issue by the choice of content and the skilful use of poetic techniques. • What Points would you include in this essay?(PEAR points) • Make a list of Points into your jotter.

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7. Potential Questions • Choose a poem which describes a person’s experience. • Explain how the poetic technique used to describe the experience make the poem more interesting. • Choose a poem which arouses strong emotion in you. • Describe how you feel about the poem, and explain how the poet leads you to feel this way. • Choose a poem in which the poet creates a particular mood or atmosphere. • Show how the poet creates this mood or atmosphere by his or her choice of subject matter and use of poetic techniques.

8. Choose a poem which deals with an important issue such as war, crime, poverty, or racism. • Explain how the poet deepens your understanding of the issue by the choice of content and the skilful use of poetic techniques. • Choose a poem which describes an animal or a place or an event in an effective way. • Briefly state what is being described and go on to show how the techniques used in the poem make the description effective.

9. Choose a poem which could be considered as having a powerful message. • Show how the poet effectively conveys this message through his or her use of poetic techniques. • Choose a poem in which the poet creates a particular mood or atmosphere. • Show how the poet creates this mood or atmosphere by his or her choice of subject matter and use of poetic techniques.

10. Choose a poem which has as one of its central concerns a personal, social or religious issue • Show how the content and the poetic techniques used increase you understanding of the issue. • Choose a poem which creates an atmosphere of sadness, pity, or loss. • Show how the poet creates the atmosphere and what effect it has on your response to the subject matter of the poem.

11. Homework • Due Tuesday 1st October • You are going to write a CEL on Shooting Stars using the following question: • Choose a poem which deals with an important issue such as war, crime, poverty, or racism. • Explain how the poet deepens your understanding of the issue by the choice of content and the skilful use of poetic techniques. • Use the Points we collated today to help you as well as the sample essay. • REMEMBER: Your first timed essay will be on Shooting Stars when we come back after September Weekend.

12. Paragraph Structure • Point: What is the topic sentence/ point you are discussing within the paragraph? [A good old fashioned topic sentence] • Evidence: What is the evidence you are going to justify your point with [QUOTE] • Analysis: detailed analysis of the quote linked to the point [Focus on techniques] • Refer to question: Link what you have been discussing back to the question. [Use key words from the question]