1. Personal Response: The Émigrée
QfL: How can I develop a full response, using my identified areas for improvement?
Word of the Day: Toil (v.): To work extremely hard
Starter:
Look back over your annotations and copy of ‘émigrée’ from yesterday’s lesson and complete the following:
In her poem, Carol Rumens creates an atmosphere of...
She comments on the experience of......
Her implied message might be......
Challenge: How does Rumens use contrast in her poem to demonstrate a conflicted emotional atmosphere?

2. Personal Response: The Émigrée
You are going to be working on a personal response to the question below today:
How does Carol Rumens express strong feelings in her poem The Émigrée?
First, plan your response considering three clear ideas and the quotations you will use to evidence them.
(This might be three different strong feelings...?)
Then complete your response using the structure below:
Write down your first point referring to the question.
Embed your evidence to support
Explain how the language device in your quotation is effective
Pick out a key word and explore the significance
Consider alternative meaning of either/both of your quotations
Consider how the reader might respond to this evidence: how might they feel, what might they understand?
Link back to your original point consolidating your analysis
• Thoughtful, developed response to task and text
• Apt references integrated into interpretation(s)
AO2
• Examination of writer’s methods with subject terminology used effectively to support consideration of methods
• Examination of effects of writer’s methods on reader

3. Plenary: Peer Feedback:
We learn effectively from one another- especially when we are looking at a very subjective topic like poetry.
Swap your book with your original response with a partner.
What can you learn from their response? Are their ideas similar or different to your own?
Underline the most interesting/perceptive comment.
Challenge: Can you identify any other areas for improvement?
Add this in green pen! 3

4. Homework:
Creating Comparisons:
In both ‘Émigrée’ and one other poem we have studied the speakers present a sense of loss. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the poets present those feelings?
[8 marks]
Create a three paragraph response to the task above, considering your feedback from the mock exam