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Friday 18th March 2016

Belfast Confetti

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

Starter:

  • Match the term with the definition

Plenary

Task 4

  • Using only the punctuation marks, draw on an explosion.
  • Explain why you have used certain pieces of punctuation

Task 5 -

Imagery

What language features are these quotations?

10 points for the correct answer!

  • Highlight these quotes in the poem
  • Explain how they represent bombs or explosions.

How confident are you to analyse the two poems we have studied this week on your own?

Why?

The poem looks like a sound that is getting louder and quieter.

It also looks like things being thrown in the air and then back down again.

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

Task 6 -

Extension

1. What picture of Belfast is conveyed to the reader?

2. What contribution does punctuation make to the depiction of the effects of violence on people and landscape?

3. Why does Carson describe as a "labyrinth" the local and well-known streets of his neighbourhood?

4. Why does the writer-narrator ask the rhetorical question, "What is my name?”

5. What does the punctuation represent? Why do you think the poet has done this?

Reading the poem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetryconflict/belfastconfettiact.shtml

Points to consider:

1. Ciaran Carson states the importance of poetry telling a story. What is the story which he tells in this poem?

2. What do you understand by the title of the poem? Is the title ironic?

3. Consider the list of street names. Can you see any significance in their names?

4. Consider the length of the lines of the poem, the short sentences and the questions. Why do you think Ciaran

Carson writes in this style?

5. How is the craft of creating a poem mirrored in the events of the story of the poem?

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

What is the poem about?

The poem is written in the first person, giving a dramatic description of what it felt like to be caught up in the violent riots in Belfast in the 1970s. In the aftermath of an IRA bomb, there is chaos and the ‘riot squad’ moves in. In his confusion and terror the poet cannot find his way through the maze of Belfast streets that he usually knows so well. He’s stopped and interrogated by British soldiers, but is unable to communicate with them to answer their questions. Nothing makes sense to him anymore.

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

• Each student reads up to the next punctuation mark (,. ; : - … ?), the student sitting next to you will then take over.

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

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L.O: To analyse the poem, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, and explain the view of war presented by Owen.

Task 2 -

Paired activity

  • First B reads the poem and A highlights any words that are violent.

  • Now A reads the poem and B highlights any words that relate to punctuation.

Feedback

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

Which of these ways was most effective?

Why

Task 3 -

Join another pair

Practise reading the poem in different ways:

  • Loud and quiet
  • Slow and fast
  • Angry and calm
  • Sad and happy
  • Loud and quiet
  • Slow and fast
  • Angry and calm
  • Sad and happy

L.O: To analyse the poem, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, and explain the view of war presented by Owen.

10 minutes silent reading.

Task 1

Answers

Mark your answers out of 4. Tick each correct answer.

Write down the title, leaving a little bit of space around it.

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

When do you usually see this?

Belfast Confetti

Where is this?

Keyword

Euphemism: A word that is not offensive which replaces an offensive one.

Ironic use of the term ‘confetti’ that is associated with celebration, but here it describes the debris from the bomb.

Euphemism for miscellaneous objects that were thrown during street riots (nuts, bolts, nails etc).

The Troubles

Carson was a young man in Belfast when the Troubles began in 1969. ‘The Troubles’ refers to almost 30 years of violence between the Nationalists (mainly Roman Catholic) who wanted independence from the UK and the unionists (mainly Protestants) who believed in strengthening the political ties between Northern Ireland and Britain. Armed paramilitary groups, including the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), made Belfast a terrifying place to live between 1969 and 1997 and much of the violence took place around the Protestant

Shankill Road and Catholic Falls Road areas. The British

government claimed that its forces were in Northern Ireland to keep law and order, but Irish republicans objected strongly to the presence of the British soldiers.

The capital city of Northern Ireland where most of the ‘troubles’ took place.

Ironic that ‘confetti’ usually symbolises a union of two people in love. Here small pieces of metal symbolise a broken society.

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

Euphemism for unknown objects that were thrown during street riots (nuts, bolts, nails etc).

Ironic use of the term ‘confetti’ that is related to celebration, but here it describes the debris from the bomb.

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

scattered pieces of rubbish

Belfast Confetti

Ironic that ‘confetti’ usually symbolises a union of two people in love. Here it is small pieces of metal symbolise a broken society.

The capital city of Northern Ireland where most of the ‘troubles’ took place.

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

You have 5 minutes. GO!

L.O: To explore and analyse the poem, ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciarán Carson.

Homework

  • Research the Troubles.
  • The BBC website is a good starting place.
  • You could focus your research on Belfast in particular and also the use of street names in the poem.

This will help you understand the poem more for your assessment!

Belfast Confetti

Ciarán Carson

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