What are the connotations of these two words?

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What are the connotations of these two words?
Gold
Brown
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Lesson objectives To understand what the poem
Parades End by Daljit Nagra is about. To
analyse how the poet has used language and
structure to convey thoughts, feelings and ideas.
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Listen to the poem being read Any words you
dont understand? Lets deal with them
now Glossary
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Daljit Nagra was born and brought up in West
London and Sheffield. He is a British-Indian
poet. Listen to him explain the context to some
of his poems http//clashesandcollisions.wordpre
ss.com/parades-end/ There is more on the poet
at http//www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jan/18/po
etry.race
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What are the key events in the poem? Lets take
each stanza at a time.
How would you feel if you were the narrator?
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Where in the poem are there images of
poverty? And of success?
POVERTY SUCCESS


Can be done interactively on ActiveTeach
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What do these images convey?

• The few who warmed us a thumbs up

Spread trolleys at the end of darkened aisles
Council mums
Darkies from down south
from gold to the brown of our former colour
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Now lets annotate the poem looking at Racial
tensions them and us Poverty and
success The family who own the shop The message
of the final line
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Plenary our lesson objectives were To
understand what the poem Parades End by Daljit
Nagra is about. To analyse how the poet has used
language and structure to convey thoughts,
feelings and ideas. In your own words, answer
the following questions What is Parades End
about? How do language and structure contribute
to meaning? What other poems deal with the issue
of prejudice?
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Homework complete worksheet analysing key lines
from the poem. Due in