Today’s Learning Objectives:

• All pupils will be able to talk about the imagery

the writer uses in the poem.
• Most pupils will be able to express their own
opinions as to what is being described in the
poem.
• Most pupils will be able to create their own
poetry in the style of the poem.
Key words for today:

• Imagery
– a set of mental pictures or images
Key words for today:

• Metaphor
– when something is described as though it was
something else (e.g. “His bedroom was a
pigsty!”)
– does not use “like” or “as”
A Martian Sends a
Postcard Home
Example 1
“Pupils hold a short stick that bleeds black blood
onto white leaves.”

What is this a description of?

A pen!
Example 2
“Humans force feed the square creature with
dirty food. He sloshes it round his mouth and
spits it out an hour later.”

What is this a description of?

A washing machine!