• Dark

•Most words bring to mind • Nightmare

other words, feelings or
ideas. • Corner
•Look at the words on the • Crash
right – what other words,
feelings or ideas do you • Celebration
think about?
• Clapping
 By the end of the lesson ...
• I will be able to explain how language
and structure help a poem affect the
reader.
•
 This Room
• What are your first impressions of the
poem that we have just read?
•
• In your exercise books sketch what you
can see.
•
• What mood is created in this poem?
• Is it the same all the way through or does
it change?
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DOOR

WINDOW
Janeks Shawn Suraj
Gabriel
Abdul
Sara Amritnam Cameron
Arnis
Paulina

Sam Leoni Gurnaik Ripon

WINDOW
Christine Jodie

Jetmir Akeel Ruchna Jake

Ms
Chamberlain
WHITEBOARD
 TSL
The Strongest Link
Theme Structure Language

Theme means what the poem

is about, what mood and
Theme ideas it presents.

Structu Langua
re ge
Structure means how the Language means what words
poet organises or sets the poet uses to make the
out the poem to make the theme clear.
theme clear.
 What’s happening? What ideas
does the poem suggest to us?
This room is breaking out
•

of itself, cracking through

•

its own walls

•

in search of space, light,

•

empty air.
•

The bed is lifting out of

•

its nightmares.
•

From dark corners, chairs

•

are rising up to crash through clouds.

•

•
 What’s happening? What ideas
does the poem suggest to us?
This is the time and place
•

to be alive:
•

when the daily furniture of our lives

•

stirs, when the improbable arrives.

•

Pots and pans bang together

•

in celebration, clang
•

Past the crowd of garlic, onions, spices,

•

Fly by the ceiling fan.

•

No one is looking for the door.

•

•
 What’s happening? What ideas
does the poem suggest to us?
In all this excitement
•

I’m wondering where

•

I’ve left my feet, and why

•

My hands are outside, clapping.

•
The mood changes from negative to
positive. The poem shows that freedom is
a good thing.
• Highlight in one colour all of the
negative words.
• Highlight in a different colour all of the
positive words.
•
• Where are all the negative words
located?
• Where are all the positive words
located?
 • Dark
•Most words bring to mind • Nightmare
other words, feelings or
ideas. • Corner
•Look at the words on the • Crash
right – what other words,
feelings or ideas do you • Celebration
think about?
• Clapping
 Senses
• How many of the five senses are
included in this poem?
•
• What sounds are included?
• What smells are included?
• What tastes are included?
 T S L
The Strongest Link
Theme Structure Language

Theme means what the

Theme poem is about, what mood
and ideas it presents.

Structu Langua
Structure means how the
re
poet organises or sets out
the poem to make the
ge
Language means what
words the poet uses to
 Which of these words could you use to
describe the structure of the poem? Would
you use the same words all the way
through or does it change?
• Organised • Disorganis
• Patterned ed T h e m o o d ch a n g e s
• Controlled • Chaotic fro m n e g a tive to
• Repetitive • Free p o sitive . T h e p o e m
• Messy sh o w s th a t
• Split into
fre e d o m is a g o o d
sections • Jumbled
th in g .
up
p o e t o rg a n ise•d th e p o e m i
H o w d o•e s it lin k to th e th e m e ?
 By the end of the lesson ...
• I will be able to explain how language and
structure help a poem affect the reader.
•
• The theme of this poem is ...
• At the beginning of the poem the language is ....
• At the end of the poem the language is ...
• At the beginning of the poem the structure is ...
• At the end of the poem the structure is ...