How can people be different ?

1. How can people be different? colour height religion intelligence wealth sexuality gender sporting ability

2. Learning Objectives • To understand everyone is different in some way • To be able to think like a person who is different from myself

3. IRONY • Irony means ‘funny’ • Not‘laughing-at-a-joke’ funny… • …but ‘isn’t it funny that…’

4. Why is stanza 6 ironic? • Because the bully teases other children about their English… • …while his or her own English is incorrect!

5. What about the other stanzas? • Is there any other irony in the poem? • Is the whole poem ironic?

6. Your turn • Imagine you’re one of the children who is being bullied in the poem • Write a poem called ‘It Ain’t Funny’ • In your poem, try to show the bully two things: - How you feel about your difference - That in other ways, you’re the same

7. A stanza to show feelings It ain’t funny you can walk And hop and skip and jump and feel The grass, the sand, a ball, the waves When my feet are these two wheels

8. A stanza to show you’re the same But there’s lots that we can share Our school, our friends, our dreams, our lives And when I close my eyes I can Take off and wheel across the sky

9. A Final Couplet Which Uses Irony So ain’t it funny that you walk Away from me when I can fly