VWO3 - Poetry - WEEK 12

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

English Theme 2

Speaking & Poetry

English VWO3 - Period 3

Speaking & Poetry

Take your seat

Make sure you are in pairs

Put your laptop on the table, and join the lessonup

Do not touch the whiteboards

Lesson Objectives

-You know in what way video editing can affect how the message of an advertisement comes across

-You can indicate words that are typical for a poem

-You can imagine what the poet is seeing

-You can explain why certain pictures match with the words that you have found in the poem

What is poetry?

Whiteboards

Rules:

Use it only to write your answers

When you've finished writing, put the cap back on the pen

Misuse will result in consequences

Whiteboards

Write yes on one side

Write no on the other

Is it from a poem/song?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or 

views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered 

as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

No!

Is it from a poem/song?

Stop your messing around

Better think of your future

Time you straighten right out

Creating problems in town

Rudy

A message to you, Rudy

A message to you

Yes!

Is it from a poem/song?

"I've been selling my soul, working all day. Overtime hours for bullshit pay, so I can sit out here and waste my life away. Drag back home and drown my troubles away", one man said.

"It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to, for people like me, people like you, wish I could just wake up and it not be true", said another, to the first man.

"But it is oh, it is. Living in the new world with an old soul. These rich men north of Richmond. Lord, knows they all just wanna have total control. Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do", the one man said in response.

A third man chimed in, "And they don't think you know but I know that you do, because your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end because of rich men north of Richmond."

The three men spoke on and on all night about the society they were forced into.

Yes!

Does it now feel more like a song?

I've been selling my soul working all day

Overtime hours for bullshit pay

So I can sit out here and waste my life away

Drag back home and drown my troubles away

It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to

For people like me, people like you

Wish I could just wake up and it not be true

But it is oh, it is

Livin' in the new world with an old soul

These rich men north of Richmond

Lord, knows they all just wanna have total control

Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do

And they don't think you know but I know that you do

'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end

'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

Wipe your boards

What do you think the writer is seeing?

I've been selling my soul working all day

Overtime hours for bullshit pay

So I can sit out here and waste my life away

Drag back home and drown my troubles away

It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to

For people like me, people like you

Wish I could just wake up and it not be true

But it is oh, it is

Livin' in the new world with an old soul

These rich men north of Richmond

Lord, knows they all just wanna have total control

Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do

And they don't think you know but I know that you do

'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end

'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

Video Time

We're going to watch a short video clip. Working in pairs, watch the video and then discuss the answers to the questions.

Think about the first few questions while you watch

Who is the main character in the video?

What happens to them in the story? Why?

What effect does the editing have?

Video Time

Who is the main character in the video?

Video Time

What effect does the editing have?

Video Time

Did the editing surprise you? Why?

Video Time

What about the ad makes you want to buy a snickers the most?

The theme/acting/cast/slogan etc.

This theme's goals

You are going to learn about poetry 

You're going to practice speaking by giving a presentation about a poem. 

HOW? 

In your presentation:

- You will work in pairs
- You will choose a poem from the syllabus and design a poetry video (visual poem)
- Your visual poem will play an important part in your presentation (we have examples!)

The weekly exercises are meant to help you through this process

The goal

Every week is clearly described in your study guide.

Your weekly exercises, instructions, and all the poems you can choose from are in the syllabus.

The language help document is full of useful presentation sentences. 

USE THEM!

Learning about poetry & preparing your work > week 12 - 16 

Every week you will work on some exercises from your syllabus .

Hand-in your visual poem via Teams assignment, April 18, 17:00 

Presentations > week 19 - 23 

NOT the Testweek test, BUT Listening test in WEEK 25. 

Rubric

- individual + group points

- page 5 in the syllabus

- use as a checklist when working on your powerpoint and visual poem. 

Let's get to it!

Watch & listen 

                                                Write down words that are about warmth                                     on your whiteboards

Elements of warmth

What one word could we use to describe this scene?

Use your whiteboards

Why does your word fit?

Elements of cold

A baked potato of a winter’s night to wrap your hands around or burn your mouth. A blanket knitted by your mother’s cunning fingers. Or your grandmother’s.

A smile, a touch, trust, as you walk in from the snow

or return to it, the tips of your ears pricked pink and frozen.

The tink tink tink of iron radiators waking in an old house.

To surface from dreams in a bed, burrowed beneath blankets and comforters, the change of state from cold to warm is all that matters, and you think just one more minute snuggled here before you face the chill. Just one.

Places we slept as children: they warm us in the memory.

We travel to an inside from the outside. To the orange flames of the fireplace or the wood burning in the stove. Breath-ice on the inside of windows, to be scratched off with a fingernail, melted with a whole hand.

Frost on the ground that stays in the shadows, waiting for us.

Wear a scarf. Wear a coat. Wear a sweater. Wear socks. Wear thick gloves. 

 An infant as she sleeps between us. A tumble of dogs, 

a kindle of cats and kittens. Come inside. You’re safe now.

A kettle boiling at the stove. Your family or friends are there. They smile.  Cocoa or chocolate, tea or coffee, soup or toddy, what you know you need. A heat exchange, they give it to you, you take the mug 

and start to thaw. 

While outside, for some of us, the journey began
as we walked away from our grandparents’ houses away from the places we knew as children: changes of state and state and state, to stumble across a stony desert, or to brave the deep waters, while food and friends, home, a bed, even a blanket become just memories. 

Sometimes it only takes a stranger, in a dark place, to hold out a badly-knitted scarf, to offer a kind word, to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season.

You have the right to be here.

What are the KEY ideas of the poem?

Homework: Assignment 1

- Make pairs (be sensible)

- Choose a poem

- Sign up for presentations

- Assignment 1 - page 6 - syllabus

What is a theme of What You Need to be Warm?

1. The importance of food in daily life
2. The power of kindness and comfort
3. A guide to surviving the winter
4. The importance of winter traditions

What poetic device is used in "you're not you when you're hungry?

1. Similie
2. Metaphor
3. Hyperbole
4. Rhyming

Time to work

Finish Assignment 1, page 6

Paragraph A Watching: Exercises 5, 6, and 7 (pages 10 and 11)