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This teaching resource has been produced as part of
the Max Reinhardt Literacy Awards and devised through a partnership
between Manchester Art Gallery, Tarplorley High School and Sixth Form College
and Poet Mike Garry.
This resource has been produced as part of the Max Reinhardt Literacy Awards (MRLA) in 2014. MRLA is a pilot programme developed by engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, and the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) to enable galleries,
art museums and visual arts venues to support a dedicated programme of creative writing
and literacy work with schools. The Awards are funded by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust.
Copyright will remain with the writers, and producing partners: Manchester Art Gallery, Tarporley High School, Mike Garry, engage, the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust and NAWE.
You are going to move your single words
into two words with Kennings.
Kennings were used by Anglo Saxons and use two words
to describe an object.
Now expand the words written in the
word splurge and the kennings to write a haiku.
You are allowed 17 syllables.
The first line has five
The second line has seven
The third line has five
Now it’s time to use your ideas to create a piece of writing.
Will you use the
taking time to look techniques
to help you describe the scene?
A tired wooden fish
Swimming through wicked pea soup
Coughs in the misty prison
Traffic carrier
Land connector
Sky route
Route enabler
Pass over
Iron reach
Steam release
Smoke stacker
Wood burner
Coal changer
Smoking joe
Tower inferno
Pea soup
Image catcher
Shadow holder
Ripple reaper
Murky mirror
Dark conscience
Winter evening walk
Lost souls on the river bank
Hiding in the mist
Solitary soul
A silent sight in ghost town
The man stands alone
Artworks can provoke emotions,
inspire ideas and unlock imaginations.
What follows are a series of approaches
to help you use images as the starting point
for a piece of writing.
IMAGE TO TEXT
Will you use your Haiku to help form a piece of writing?
The mysterious man
As I look across the dim, dulled docks, amongst all the rubble and unsettled land. I noticed there was a man with broad shoulders and a turned up hat, standing beneath the rigid bridge. His eyes looked intensely towards the goings on of the melancholy Manchester. Some time later he realised how I was looking at him but he did not stir nor say a word. he just went back to staring like a statue.
The mysterious man
As I look across the dim, dulled docks, amongst all the rubble and unsettled land. I noticed there was a man with broad shoulders and a turned up hat, standing beneath the rigid bridge. His eyes looked intensely towards the goings on of the melancholy Manchester. Some time later he realised how I was looking at him but he did not stir nor say a word, he just went back to staring like a statue.
IMAGE TO TEXT
A teaching resource by Manchester Art Gallery,
in partnership with
Tarporley High School and Sixth Form College
and writer Mike Garry.
Artworks can provoke emotions,
inspire ideas and unlock imaginations.
What follows are a series of approaches to help you
use images as the starting point for a piece of writing.
They invite you to connect with and read visual images,
moving initial ideas into a range of varied,
compelling and unique written responses.
TIME TO LOOK
Using 3 formal elements
1. Line
2. Light and Shade
3. Colour
Let's explore the painting
2. Light and Shade
Half close your eyes notice the light and dark areas,
start with the large areas and move into smaller areas.
1. Line
Find any point in the painting,
follow the line that it moves along, follow it to the end.
Where has it taken you?
3. Colour
Moving round the image clockwise,
notice all the different hues of grey.
Will you use your character questions to write
from the man’s perspective?
CHARACTER BUILDING
Character Traits
What is your characters first memory
What is your character’s biggest flaw
What makes your character angry?
What makes your character happy?
What embarrass your character?
Which one thing can your character never leave home without?
Who does your character most respect
Who does your character most dislike?
What is your character’s deepest regret?
What is your character’s greatest fear
What is your character’s secret wish?
Select five questions and answer them.
It is not possible to explore an image all in one go.
These techniques slow down the process and
help to really see what is there.
Let's talk about what has been discovered.
INVESTIGATING THE PICTURE
ASKING QUESTIONS?
Who, What, Why, When, How?
Divide the class into 5 groups.
Each group has to work with just one of the questions,
how many questions can they ask of the artwork?
CHARACTER BUILDING
Taking sides
Let's make some quick decisions about the character
in response to these oppositional questions.
Cat/Dog?
Run/Walk?
Day/Night?
Fast/Slow?
Positive?Negative?
Give/Take?
Help/Ignore?
Laugh/Cry?
City/Countryside?
Friends/Family?
Strong/Weak?
Head/Heart?
Open/Closed?
Sometimes/Always?
PERSONAL CONNECTIONS
Personalise/speak your mind
What you think is important and VALID…. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
What is the first thing that comes in your head
when you see the image?
What does it make you think about?
What do you connect with?
What does it remind you of?
Does it evoke any emotions in you?
FORM
Moving ideas and words into a considered piece of writing
Word Splurge
You are only allowed to use single words
to describe this artwork, fill a sheet of paper.
Kennings
Kennings are an old Anglo Saxon figurative description
of what you see using two words
Explode the words you have written into two words
that describe the image or something you associate with the image
Here are some examples
Bridge
Traffic carrier
Land connector
Sky route
Route enabler
Pass over
Iron reach
Water
Pea soup
Image catcher
Shadow holder
Ripple reaper
Murky mirror
Dark conscience
Chimney
Steam release
Smoke stacker
Wood burner
Coal changer
Smoking joe
Tower inferno
Solitary soul
A silent sight in ghost town
The man stands alone
Haiku
Let's expand the words written in the word splurge and the kennings
and write some haiku, you are allowed 17 syllables
The first line has five
The second line has seven
The third line has five
Example:
Winter evening walk
Lost souls on the river bank
Hiding in the mist
Hiding in the mist
Is your Haiku going to be the first line of your extended piece of writing?
Choose to write in from one of the following perspectives:
First Person… You are the man, what is your internal monologue?
Second Person… You are the wife of a missing husband?
Third Person… You see the man, should you call the police?
The mysterious man
As I look across the dim, dulled docks, amongst all the rubble and unsettled land. I noticed there was a man with broad shoulders and
a turned up hat, standing beneath the rigid bridge. His eyes looked intensely towards the goings on of melancholy Manchester.
Some time later he realised how I was looking at him but he did not
stir nor say a word. he just went back to staring like a statue.
Find any point in the painting,
follow the line that it moves along, follow it to the end.
What makes your character angry?
CHARACTER BUILDING
Taking sides
Let's make some quick decisions about the character
in response to these oppositional questions.
Cat/Dog?
Run/Walk?
Day/Night?
Fast/Slow?
Positive?Negative?
Give/Take?
Help/Ignore?
Laugh/Cry?
City/Countryside?
Friends/Family?
Strong/Weak?
Head/Heart?
Open/Closed?
Sometimes/Always?
Take time to look
Use the formal elements in art to
slow down and explore the painting
1. Line
2. Light and Shade
3. Colour
Character Traits
Select 5 of the questions below and answer
them to develop your character.
What is your characters first memory?
What is your character’s biggest flaw?
What makes your character angry?
What makes your character happy?
What embarrasses your character?
Who does your character most respect?
Who does your character most dislike?
What is your character’s deepest regret?
What is your character’s greatest fear?
What is your character’s secret wish?
Where has it taken you?
Half close your eyes notice the light and dark areas,
start with the large areas and move into smaller areas.
What is your characters first memory?
Moving round the image clockwise,
notice all the different hues of grey.
Who does your character most respect?
Word splurge
Create a word splurge, you are only allowed
to use single words to describe the artwork.
Fill a sheet of paper.
You can personalise your writing by
making connections with the image.
What is the first thing that comes in your head
when you see the image?
What does it make you think about?
What do you connect with?
What does it remind you of?
Does it evoke any emotions in you?
Here is Mike Garry, Poet, talking about his reaction to the painting
(press the play button)
It is not possible to explore an image all in one go.
These techniques slow down the process and
help you really see what is there.
Talk about what you have discovered.
Asking questions of artworks
can help you think in new ways.
You have to work in a group to come up with as many
questions as possible for just one of these.
Who, What, Why, When, How?
You do not have to answer them.
Look at the questions another group produced,
find your favourite question and answer it.
Water
Bridge
Chimney