"Education for Leisure" Carol Ann Duffy

Goals for today 
Completion "Stealing" 
Consideration of another poem by Carol Ann Duffy 
Exploration of some authorial choices made by the poet 
The poetic persona guiding question 
Visualising the poetic persona 


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EngelsUpper Secondary (Key Stage 4)GCSE

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Goals for today 
Completion "Stealing" 
Consideration of another poem by Carol Ann Duffy 
Exploration of some authorial choices made by the poet 
The poetic persona guiding question 
Visualising the poetic persona 


Slide 1 - Diapositive

Rikard
Robin 
Coen 
Anna 
Kate
Zoë
Elsje
 
Andrea
Emilia 
Aamu 
Kim 
Hugo 
Erik
Shamatmika
Ella 
Lena 
Mia 
Damien 
Cleo  
Megan 
Neysa
Dheeshitha
Alastrina 

Slide 2 - Diapositive

"Stealing" 
1. Put your image into your class notebook (add a tab 'Carol Ann Duffy Poetry' if you do not already have that tab). 
2. Add to your image quotes, the techniques seen in those quotes and how these quotes support your visual of the poetic persona. 
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Slide 3 - Diapositive

"Education for Leisure"
What ideas, associations,
concepts come to
mind from this title?

Slide 4 - Carte mentale

Reading to the punctuation 

Slide 5 - Diapositive

Slide 6 - Vidéo

Consideration of a poem by Carol Ann Duffy 
Note expansion to find salient points 
Concepts in the poem and techniques 
The poetic persona 


Slide 7 - Diapositive

Which, according
to you is the "best" line
in this poem?

Slide 8 - Carte mentale

Answer these questions 
Who?
What? 
When? 
Why?

Slide 9 - Diapositive

Answer these questions 
  • Who? an unemployed young person who thinks he is a genius 
  • What? He kills the goldfish (maybe kills or tortures the budgie and the cat) 
  • When? Today, an ordinary day
  • Why? Because he wants to play God for a day 
  • Expand this kernel sentence: decides to take control 

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Summary sentence
On an ordinary day, a young unemployed person, who thinks he is a genius and wants to play God for a day, decides to take control of his life by killing a fly and a goldfish and wanting to hurt others.

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"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; / They kill us for their sport."

King Lear by William Shakespeare
Allusion 

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"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day."

Genesis 1:31
Allusion 

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Colloquial
Caesura 
enjambment 
Stanza
Alliteration 
Allusion
End-stopped lines
Anthropomorphism 
Symbolism
Repetition 
Free verse 
How is the topic of alienation and narcissism explored in this poem? 
Pathetic fallacy

Slide 14 - Diapositive

AWL

Slide 15 - Diapositive

Read Mrs Scholfield's GCSE
Read the note on this poem. 
Research each of the references to Shakespeare's works.
Note the allusions on your copy of the poem. 

Slide 16 - Diapositive

Your guiding question for "Mrs Scholfield's GCSE"

Slide 17 - Question ouverte