1. What is home to you?
In the house template, list any sights, sounds, smells or things you associate with your home.

2. The smell of freshly cut flowers
Laptop
Curling up on the sofa
Crazy cat
The sound of my children arguing
Warmth Pyjamas

3. What?
I will understand the sense of place that the writer conveys in the poem ‘Island Man’.
I will learn the term ENJAMBMENT.
I will be able to identify the language features used by the poet to evoke a sense of place in the poem.
I will understand how the speaker in ‘Island Man’ feels about his cultural identity.

4. Why? To help me understand what makes me who I am.
To gain a full understanding of how writers show us emotions in poetry.

5. How? Considering what home means to me 5m Listening to the poem 2m
Revising / learning some terminology 8m
Discussion 10m
Doing some writing 5m
Independent thinking 10m

6. Learning Check
Put your hand up if you know anything at all about the poem ‘Island Man’?

7. Island Man
Listen carefully to the poem; highlight or underline words or phrases that jump out at you as you listen. What are your first impressions?

8. Can you find any direct opposites?
Caribbean
London
List all the things that Island Man associates with his island home & with London.
Can you find any direct opposites?

9. Learning Check
Stand up if you could tell me two things you have learnt about the poem ‘Island Man’ so far.
On your post it notes write down one word that sums up how he feels abut the island. Write down one word that sums up how he feels about London
This then meets the first objective – sense of place

10. Define Enjambment from Fr. enjamber "to stride over”
relates to the flow or structure of a poem
opposite is a short sentence or ‘end-stop’.

11. How many poetic devices can you name & define?
Mindmap

12. Match! Can you match up the techniques with their examples?
Star challenge: what is the writer trying to tell us?
Metaphor
Sibilance (alliteration of ‘s’ sounds)
Repetition
Juxtaposition (contrast)
Onomatopoeia
“Sun surfacing defiantly”
“Groggily groggily”
“Emerald island”
“Roar”
“Blue”… “grey”

13. Work through these questions in groups then pick your top answer.
Discuss
What are sland Man’s feelings about the island? How are these expressed?
What are Island Man’s feelings about London? How are these expressed?
What place does the man like best?
How many years do you think that he has been gone from the island?
What does this tell us about his feelings for where he was born?
Where does he identify with most?
This is his CULTURAL IDENTITY!
What I do with my groups, if its any help, is I give them 1 minute to discuss the first question in pairs, then one minute to discuss the question as a group and come up with the best answer. You could do this – just time it on your watch. It ensures that you’ve managed complete discussion for all students

14. Write Write a PEA paragraph answering the following question:
How does Grace Nicols use language to convey feelings about place in the poem?

15. Learning Check Write down anything new that you’ve learnt today!
Pick out the best word or phrase that you think shows how Island Man feels
Be ready to feed back
You could do the pair share, group share thing here too if you wanted.

16. Get Thunking “No man is an island entirely to himself”
John Donne ( )
How might we relate
this famous quotation to
Grace Nicols’s poem?