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Objectives: To identify and evaluate messages in poems of different cultures Homework

Objectives: To identify and evaluate messages in poems of different cultures Homework Write three quiz questions based on ‘Flag’ – Thursday. How are flags being used in these images? Why? How are flags more than pieces of cloth?. Flag - John Agard What's that …………….. in a breeze?

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Objectives: To identify and evaluate messages in poems of different cultures Homework

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  1. Objectives: • To identify and evaluate messages in poems of different cultures • Homework • Write three quiz questions based on ‘Flag’ – Thursday

  2. How are flags being used in these images? Why? How are flags more than pieces of cloth?

  3. Flag - John Agard What's that …………….. in a breeze? Its just a piece of cloth that brings a nation to its …………... What's that unfurling from a pole? It's just a piece of cloth that makes the guts of men grow ………. What's that rising over a ………..? It's just a piece of cloth that dares the ………… to relent. What's that flying across a field? It's just a piece of cloth that will ………… the blood you bleed. How can I possess such a cloth? Just ask for a flag my friend. Then bind your ……………… to the end. http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/john-agard-flag-poem-only/12255.html Fill in the gaps by closing listening to the audio clip. How are flags used in the poem? (Clue – tents, fields) What is the poet’s message about the use of flags? What vocabulary suggests this negative view of flags? What can they do to some men? In what ways can flags be used as a negative symbol? Do you agree or disagree with the poem’s message on flags? What is your opinion about how flags can be used by cultures?

  4.  Flag What's that fluttering in a breeze? Its just a piece of cloth that brings a nation to its knees. What's that unfurling from a pole? It's just a piece of cloth that makes the guts of men grow bold. What's that rising over a tent? It's just a piece of cloth that dares the coward to relent. What's that flying across a field? It's just a piece of cloth that will outlive the blood you bleed. How can I possess such a cloth? Just ask for a flag my friend. Then bind your conscience to the end.

  5. Identify the message/s intended by poems from different cultures.

  6. Plenary: • Feedback your group opinion on: • ‘Which poem has the most important message for British culture to learn? • What could different cultures learn from British culture?

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