Learning Objective: To understand key poetic terms

By Seamus Heaney

Blackberry Picking

Learning Objective: To understand key poetic terms

Blackberry Picking Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhBK5_zLwJY

Learning Objective: To understand key poetic terms

Starter

Create a mind map of words that you could use to describe autumn.

Learning Objective: To understand key poetic terms

Activity

Find 5 adjectives, 1 simile and one clear

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Learning Objective: To understand key poetic terms

Homework

Write 200 words on:

Do you think Autumn is the best season? Explain why?

-Use autumn thought bubble and adjectives from the poem!

Learning Objective: To understand key poetic terms

Themes

Learning Objective: To understand key poetic terms

Activity

- Find lines that show the theme you found.

- E.g. One of the poem’s main themes is nature. We can see this from the line “Late August, given heavy rain and sunFor a full week, the blackberries would ripen.”

- This shows a specific time of autumn, describes the weather and mentions fruit growing which all remind me of nature.