1. Learning objective: to understand how Simon Armitage uses language in Out of The Blue to show the speaker’s feelings Starter 10 minutes silent reading Task 1 If you were trapped in North Tower of The Twin Towers, looking down from a window and trying desperately to escape, what thoughts and feelings would go though your mind?

2. Learning objective: to understand how Simon Armitage uses language in Out of The Blue to show the speaker’s feelings Trapped in the North Tower – my feelings

3. Learning objective: to understand how Simon Armitage uses language in Out of The Blue to show the speaker’s feelings What are his thoughts or feelings? How do you know? Give some evidence and explain how this shows his thoughts or feelings. You have picked me out. Through a distant shot of a building burning you have noticed now that a white cotton shirt is twirling, turning. The media is reporting this. There are images on people’s phones. He thinks that surely people can see him now that he is waving his shirt though the window. He’s terrified and desperate. He’s waving his shirt forwards and backwards trying to get people’s attention. He thinks people can spot him from the distance. He wants people to see him. It’s in the present tense so it makes it more real like it’s happening now. The alliteration on burning building shows how dangerous it is and how desperate he feels. Using the word ‘you’ makes it personal. The present participles, the ‘ing’ words show how this is continuous and going on for a long time. Burning and turning rhyme showing that he’s waving as fast as the flames are coming. In fact I am waving, waving. Small in the clouds, but waving, waving. Does anyone see a soul worth saving? He feels desperate. He feels lost as if no one can see him and everyone has forgotten him. I keep waving but no one is coming. He’s asking why no one is coming to rescue them. He is beginning to get more desperate and thinks that no one cares. So when will you come? Do you think you are watching, watching a man shaking crumbs or pegging out washing? I am trying and trying. The heat behind me is bullying, driving, but the white of surrender is not yet flying. I am not at the point of leaving, diving.

4. Learning objective: to understand how Simon Armitage uses language in Out of The Blue to show the speaker’s feelings What are his thoughts or feelings? Evidence and explanation A bird goes by. The depth is appalling. Appalling that others like me should be wind-milling, wheeling, spiralling, falling. Are your eyes believing, believing that here in the gills I am still breath ing. But tiring, tiring. Sirens below are wailing, firing. My arm is numb and my nerves are sagging. Do you see me, my love. I am failing, flagging.

5. Learning objective: to understand how Simon Armitage uses language in Out of The Blue to show the speaker’s feelings Plenary Choice of tasks 1.Write a paragraph explaining how Armitage gets across the man’s terror by using words and techniques. 2.Write a paragraph as if you are the man in the building, explaining what you’re doing and why.