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G10A IGCSE Poetry - Carol Ann Duffy - L3 - 110920 - Updated
G10A IGCSE Poetry - Carol Ann Duffy - L3 - 110920 - Updated
Procedure:
● Video - definitions
● How to identify tone - mind mapping strategies
● Tone and mood vocabulary
● Individual poetry analysis
Video - definitions
Additional points:
● Tone is the writer or speaker’s attitude towards the
subject, his audience, or himself. It is the emotional
colouring of the work and thus essential for
understanding the full meaning.
Image credit: BrainPop ● Tone often changes throughout a poem like a roller
coaster. These are called tonal shifts.
metaphor
(attitude is revealed by the
metaphor - is the association a diction
good or bad thing?) (denotation, connotation
imagery and sound)
(pleasant or unpleasant?)
irony
syntax, formal pattern
(often used to criticise or
(e.g. short, punctuated
ridicule)
sentences? Long, flowing
sentences?)
rhythm
Tone and mood vocabulary
● WHAT is ‘annotation’?
● Annotation is a SKILL!
● WHY annotate?
● HOW do you annotate?
● WHEN do you annotate?
Annotating to make your learning visible (an example)
Sets poem in school environment. Names
memorable teacher Long opening sentence suggests
the slow care with which the
children follow the lesson. Eg
pronoun puts the speaker in the In Mrs Tilscher’s Class of enjambment
past. Draws readers in so they
identify with the experience. You could travel up the Blue Nile
with your finger, tracing the route
Chant denotes a soothing
Place name list: evokes far
while Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery. musical quality: teacher’s
away. Exotic. Remembers voice melodic
learning as fascinating, full of Tana. Ethiopia. Khartoum. Aswân.
wonder
Shape of bottle / game: joy, fun of the
That for an hour, then a skittle of milk classroom.
Idea: Reminders of time and the chalky Pyramids rubbed into dust. The image of the chalk pyramid
passing: an hour, rubbed into drawn on board suggests the
dust. Look out for other real ones in the dusty desert.
words / phrases suggesting A window opened with a long pole. Turning into dust also suggests
this. passing of time.
The laugh of a bell swung by a running child.
Personification of bell: happy atmosphere, energy. Another sign
of time passing