The Planners Vs The City Planners

The Planners Vs The City Planners

And the winner is?

Please could the observer

choose the most successful team?

Revision lesson: To prepare for your

IGCSE Literature exam

Poem Off

To Finish:

• Write down one new thing you have learned this lesson (try and relate it to the Assessment Objectives)- snowball
• Write down one thing that would be a good motion for the House debating competition - snowball
• Write down one thing you have learned that will be useful in another subject - snowball

Examiners Tips

Please watch the following clips and take notes on your allotted area of analysis. Once we have watched the clips you must spend 2 mins discussing you ideas before you present back to the rest of the class.

Then you have 2 minutes each to present your ideas to the class. Remember to connect the poems together.

Take notes as you watch!

• In poetry responses, do not simply summarise or paraphrase the content of poems.
• You must analyse the language and structure very carefully and show that you have appreciated the writer’s use of poetic

form.

• In poetry responses in particular, do not list or log literary devices.
• Critical vocabulary on its own does not impress; there must be clear and precise analytical comment on actual words and phrases.
• Simply knowing a critical term (however exotic) will not earn you marks. Rather you must make sure that you

explore how and why writers use such devices.

'Poem off' - Plan

Assessment objectives

• 2 teams, 2 poems
• Team 1 - The Planners, Attwood (12)
• Team 2 -The City Planners, Cheng (13)

• Each team will be split into 6 pairs (one triplet needed)
• For each poem the pairs should analyse the following in their poem:

Themes/Semantic fields

Rhyme and rhythm

Diction/lexical choice

Imagery

Tone and Mood

Structure

**SNOWBALLS** Knowledge Test

*You must also make a specific comparison to the other poem and state how they can be connected.

AO1: Show 'edit deal' 'elk dog new' of the content of 'retry ail' texts.

AO2: 'Sudden rant' the meanings of literary texts and their contexts, and explore beyond surface meanings to show deeper 'arena sews' of ideas and 'audit test'.

AO3: 'Sincere Go' and appreciate ways in which writers use language, structure, and form to create and shape meanings and effects.

AO4: 'Coma mice nut' a sensitive and informed 'plan rose' response to literary texts.

Work out the anagrams, some lateral thinking. 5 mins

And if you have a prep - please answer the following in timed conditions:

Choose some lines from 'The City Planners (Margaret Attwood) and The Planners (by Boey

Kim Cheng) which you find particularly powerful. With close reference to the poets’ words,

show why you find the lines so powerful.