Compare the way two poets feel about Britain?

Your task this lesson is to choose the two poems which you will write about in your assessment essay and then pick 3-4 quotations from each which you will write about. Use the videos which you made last week to help you to make your choices:

Poetry Presentations

This lesson, you are going to start work on creating your own video guide to one of the five poems we have studied so far this term:

• Slough
• Jerusalem
• Daffodils
• The British
• Island Man

Here's a video giving you some handy tips on how to do it and what to include:



And here's one some Year 8 students created last year on the poem "Daffodils":



You can download a template for the PowerPoint presentation by clicking on the link below:

PowerPoint Template

Homework due Wednesday 28th

For homework, you should complete your diary entry describing a train journey from the countryside described in William Blake's "Jerusalem" to the town described in John Betjamen's "Slough". You should include details from both poems, description of what you see around you and also explain how you feel as the scenery changes and why. I would like to see at least three quarters of a side of A4 from everybody please.

Analysing Slough

In today's lesson, we are focusing on using PEE to express opinions about the poem "Slough" by John Betjeman. Write at least two PEE chains answering the following question:

What do we learn about life in Slough from the poem?

Post what you have written as a comment below.