1. 9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes
Title: He Hears the Cry of the Sedge
Date: 02 January 2019
Objective: Can I explore how Yeats presents love, making links to Romeo and Juliet??
Success Criteria
Grade/level
2. I show an understanding of the whole text.
5. I show an understanding of how language is used for effect
All
6. I can explore how the structure creates an effect.
7. I show an understanding of how the text affects the reader as a poem.
Most
9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes
15. I can explore links between the two texts I am studying.
Some
Numeracy
Find 3…
Literacy
Interpretation of key words
SMSC
& Values
Collaborative group work.

2. LO: Can I explore how Yeats presents love, making links to Romeo and Juliet?2
Look at the key words around the room. What do these key words make us think of? (what are their connotations?)
WANDER desolate lake wind
axle break stars hurl
East and West, light beloved sleep.
5. I show an understanding of how language is used for effect

3. 9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes
Quickfire: Read the poem on your own and find 3 similarities to Romeo and Juliet and 3 key differences.
Sedge
2. I show an understanding of the whole text.
9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes

4. 9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes
In your groups, you will have 5 minutes to look at the focus area of the poem (below)
Imagery
Structure
Links to Romeo and Juliet
Your experts will be here to help you!
Success Criteria
Grade/level
2. I show an understanding of the whole text.
5. I show an understanding of how language is used for effect
All
6. I can explore how the structure creates an effect.
7. I show an understanding of how the text affects the reader as a poem.
Most
9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes
15. I can explore links between the two texts I am studying.
Some

5. 5. I show an understanding of how language is used for effect
Imagery:
Can you pick out quotations which suggest the speaker is lonely/sad?
Is there any imagery that suggest destruction/ violence?
How does the poet use language to show division/ how impossible it is for the lovers to be together?
Success Criteria:
A Grade- I can provide alternative interpretations of a line.
B Grade- I can comment on what Yeats wants us to think when we read certain lines.
C Grade: I can select appropriate quotations and comment on the effect of these.

6. 6. I can explore how the structure creates an effect.
Why do you think the poet has the wind speaking in the poem? What is the effect?
How does Yeats let us know in the first stanza what the mood of the poem is?
Look carefully at the rhyme structure and the stanza length. What does this suggest about the meaning of the poem?
The poem ends with the word sleep. Can you think of any reasons why this might be?
Success Criteria:
A Grade- I can provide alternative interpretations of a line.
B Grade- I can comment on what Yeats wants us to think.
C Grade: I can select appropriate quotations and comment on the effect of these.

7. 9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes
Links to Romeo and Juliet:
Can you pick out particular words/ phrases that link to Romeo and Juliet? How do they link?
Is there anyone in Romeo and Juliet who shares the emotion of the speaker in the poem? Who and why?
Can you make any links between the ‘banners of East and West’ and Romeo and Juliet?
Thinking about Romeo and Juliet, how could the ‘sleep’ at the end of the poem be interpreted?
Success Criteria:
A Grade- I can provide alternative interpretations of a line.
B Grade- I can comment on what Yeats wants us to think.
C Grade: I can select appropriate quotations and comment on the effect of these.

8. Expert card!
5. I show an understanding of how language is used for effect
I WANDER by the edge Of this desolate lake Where wind cries in the sedge: Until the axle break That keeps the stars in their round, And hands hurl in the deep The banners of East and West, And the girdle of light is unbound, Your breast will not lie by the breast Of your beloved in sleep.
Imagery:
C grade:
Why do you think the poet describes the lake as…?
What effect is created by using words like break and hurl to describe…?
What does the image of… make us feel?
B grade:
Why do you think Yeats uses the wind as a speaker here?
What effect is Yeats trying to create through the image of…
A grade:
What different ways could you read the last line?
If the girdle of light represents heaven, what could be happening to heaven in this poem?
Do you think the world is literally falling apart here? What else could be happening?

9. Expert card! 9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes
Links to Romeo and Juliet:
C grade:
Can you think of how this poem could link to a character in R+J?
Does any of the language echo R+J?
B grade:
Do you think Yeats wants us to read… as being about..?
How do you think Yeats wants us to interpret the ‘desolate lake’? Could this link to a place in R+J?
A grade:
How could the idea of east and west and banners link to R+J?
Can you make any links in the poem with the idea of fate? Could this link to R+J at all?
I WANDER by the edge Of this desolate lake Where wind cries in the sedge: Until the axle break That keeps the stars in their round, And hands hurl in the deep The banners of East and West, And the girdle of light is unbound, Your breast will not lie by the breast Of your beloved in sleep.

10. Expert card! 6. I can explore how the structure creates an effect.
C grade:
What is the effect of the first line? Why start like this?
What is the effect of splitting the poem into two stanzas?
B grade:
How has rhyme been used to…
The stanzas aren’t even. What do you think Yeats is trying to…
How has Yeats used the last line to…?
A grade:
Do you think the structure could represent…?
Which lines do you think might stand out most to readers? Why?
How else could you interpret the voice of the wind?
I WANDER by the edge Of this desolate lake Where wind cries in the sedge: Until the axle break That keeps the stars in their round, And hands hurl in the deep The banners of East and West, And the girdle of light is unbound, Your breast will not lie by the breast Of your beloved in sleep.

11. 7. I show an understanding of how the text affects the reader as a poem.
15. I can explore links between the two texts I am studying.
12. I can develop my points, giving a sustained interpretation
Pick one of the statements below and write an evaluative, developed answer, explaining your opinion.
Yeats’ poem is much bleaker than Romeo and Juliet in how it shows love.
I don’t think they’re similar- they’re talking about totally different ideas.
I think the speaker of the poem could be Romeo.
Shakespeare writes much more effectively about love than Yeats.