War Photographer – Creating PCQEs

1. War Photographer – Creating PCQEs For each of the points on the next slide, do the following: • Copy the point into your jotter. • Find a quotation from the poem that supports this point (there may be more than one), then: • Write down some contextualinformation about the quotation you have selected. • Copy down the quotation. • Write down an explanation of how the quotation you have selected supports the point you are writing about.

2. War Photographer – PCQE Example 1. P: Duffy believes the war photographer is isolated from his community. C: Duffy uses a simile to describe the war photographer as he develops photographs in his dark room. Q: “as though this were a church and he a priest” E: A priest is often seen to be an isolated figure in society, as priests are not allowed to marry or have children, and are expected to live by higher moral standards than most people. By associating the photographer with a priest, Duffy suggests that that the war photographer is also isolated from people in his community.

3. War Photographer – Points for CEL on Isolation • Duffy believes the war photographer is isolated from his community. • The war photographer finds it difficult / dislikes spending time in other people’s company. • The war photographer finds it hard to communicate with / be understood by the people whose pictures he takes. • The photographs the war photographer takes aren’t as significant to the editor of his newspaper as they are to the war photographer. • The photographs the war photographer takes aren’t as significant to the readers of his newspaper as they are to the war photographer. • Neither the people in his own country nor the people in the war zones can fully understand the war photographer and his work.