Title: From Pop to Poems
1From Pop to Poems Using the familiar (song
lyrics) to teach unfamiliar texts (poems)Zanita
Thompsonzthompson_at_nghs.school.nz
2- Main objectives
- to build students confidence in analysing
familiar texts (pop songs) first then unfamiliar
texts. - to teach students how to use TEEPEE to analyse
texts convincingly and perceptively for
Excellence.
3Prior knowledge - I can define these language
techniques (features)
- Metaphor and extended metaphor
- Personification
- Simile
- Direct address
- Concrete noun
- Symbolism
- Vivid Verb
- Connotation
- Imperative
- Cliché
- Rhetorical question
4Techniques - definitions
- 1. Metaphor/extended metaphor a direct
comparison between two very different things,
usually impossible. An extended metaphor is
long/developed. - 2. Personification a type of metaphor, where a
thing (inanimate object) is compared to a person
or has human characteristics. - 3. Simile a comparison between two different
things, using like or as. - 4. Direct address use of 2nd person pronouns
you to talk to the reader. - 5. Concrete noun a noun (thing) you can see or
touch. Many similar nouns may indicate an
extended metaphor. - 6. Symbolism use of a concrete noun to
represent an abstract noun (idea/feeling) or
organisation. - 7. Vivid Verb a verb (doing word) which is
specific and has impact. May have a positive or
negative tone. - 8. Connotation ideas or feelings associated
with a word. - 9. Imperative a command.
- 10. Cliché a cheesy/overused saying.
- 11. Rhetorical question a question asked for
effect.
5Firework by Katy Perry http//www.youtube.com/wa
tch?vQGJuMBdaqIw
6- Do you ever feel like a plastic bag,
- Drifting through the wind, wanting to start
again? - Do you ever feel, feel so paper-thin
- Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?
-
- Do you ever feel already buried deep? Six feet
under screams, but no one seems to hear a thing - Do you know that there's still a chance for you?
- 'Cause there's a spark in you
-
- Chorus
- You just gotta ignite the light, and let it shine
- Just own the night like the Fourth of July
- 'Cause baby you're a firework
- Come on, show 'em what you're worth
- Make 'em go "oh, oh, oh!"
- As you shoot across the sky.
- Baby you're a firework
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7Examples of techniques
- Metaphor/extended metaphor Youre a firework
- Simile - Do you ever feel like a plastic
bag/drifting through the wind/wanting to start
again? - Direct address - Do you know that there's still
a chance for you? - Concrete nouns - A spark, The light, The Fourth
of July, A firework, The sky, the moon - Vivid Verb Drifting, Wanting to start, Blow,
Buried, Screams, Shoot, Burst, Leave - Connotations The first 4 verbs are negative
and the last 3 verbs are positive. - Symbolism - After a hurricane, comes a rainbow
a rainbow is a (cliché) symbol of hope. - Imperative - show em what youre worth
- Cliché - You don't have to feel like a waste of
space/ You're original, cannot be replaced. - Rhetorical question Do you ever feel already
buried deep, Six feet under screaming, but no one
seems to hear a thing? - Repetition Youre a firework
8Zoom in on techniques - use convergent thinking
- T - What is the most important technique
(language feature) used? - E - What is the most important example of that
technique?
9Answer for Zoom In - TEE
- Technique metaphor
- Example - Youre a firework (The title!)
- Now highlight all words/phrases to do with
fireworks.
10Answer for Zoom In - TEE
- Because there are so many words connected with
fireworks, it is an extended metaphor. - Firework
- Theres a spark in you
- ignite the light, and let it shine
- Just own the night like the Fourth of July
(American Independence Day) - As you shoot across the sky.
- Come on, let your colours burst
- You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, awe.
11Zoom In - TEE
-
- Technique extended metaphor
- Example - Youre a firework Theres a spark in
you. - N.B. This will only get you N2 for the question.
You need to show you understand the example for
A3. - E - Explain the most important examples of that
technique. -
12Possible Answer for Zoom In - TEE
- Explain - The audience you is being compared
to a firework, which is bright and loud, and
creates a spectacular display for others to
admire. The message is to appreciate the spark
(life) in you and dont hide but be confident and
make your mark upon the world as you ignite the
light and let it shine. - N.B. This will get you a maximum of A4. You need
to show understanding of other techniques for
M5.
13TEEPEE How to analyse texts convincingly and
perceptively for Excellence.
14Zoom out to the poets purpose - use divergent
thinking
- P Purpose
- Thinking about all these techniques and
examples, why do you think the author wrote this
song?
15Possible Answer - Purpose
- P Purpose
- To encourage the audience to believe in their
potential theres a spark in you.
16Elaborate
- E Elaborate
- Tone is it positive or negative, amusing or
serious? - Respond what is its effect on you?
- It makes me feel ...
- Links to wider world (beyond the lines). What
do we learn about the world or human nature from
it?
17Possible Answer for Elaborate
- E - Elaborate
- Telling the audience using direct address
(you) that they are metaphorically a firework
inspires us to have hope for the future (a
rainbow), to believe that we have innate value
(spark) and contrary to negative pressures
(feel buried deep) we have potential to excel
in life and make our mark on the world (boom,
boom, boom).
18Evaluate
- E Evaluate
- Is it successful? Why?
19Possible Answer for Evaluate
- Evaluate At times, all teenagers feel like they
are undervalued (a waste of space), powerless
(one blow from caving in), drifting through
life without purpose, without being heard (but
no one seems to hear a thing), so this song,
with its positive message, (theres still a
chance for you ... Your heart will glow) has
universal appeal. The use of the extended
metaphor of fireworks with their positive
connotations and connections with celebrations
(the fourth of July) match the purpose of the
text in making the audience appreciate their
lives and have hope for the future.
20Peroration
- Using TEEPEE to analyse texts helps students to
provide sufficient detail and depth for
Excellence. - If they can perceptively analyse a familiar text,
they can tackle an unfamiliar text.
21Unfamiliar Text
- For Albert Wendt (On His Birthday)
- By Karlo Mila
22Unfamiliar Text Firstly
- Scan the texts subject by first reading the
sub-content - Title - What does it reveal?
- Footnotes - What do the source notes and glossed
words reveal?
23Secondly - Zoom in on TEE
- Read this unfamiliar text and like we did with
our song - Identify the most important technique, then
- Underline the most important examples of that
technique.
24- For Albert Wendt (On His Birthday)
- By Karlo Mila
- you dare to fish
- beyond the coral reefs
- of our understanding
- your net pulls in poems
- flicking salty tales
-
- you find nuanua
- in the eye of hurricanes
- celebrate thunder
- we prefer not to hear
- and relish
- the quicksilver laughter
- of lightning
- you shake the tree
25Zoom In - TEE
- T - What is the most important technique used?
- E - What are the best examples to use?
- E - Explain the examples.
26Zoom In - TEE
- T - Extended metaphor
- E - your narrative is a tattoo? (The last
stanza) - E - Explain the examples.
27Zoom In - TEE
- E - Explain the examples.
- Wendts storytelling as a needle tattooing the
story of Polynesian cultures onto society is apt.
The image of his pen acting as a needle to write
the stories of the culture, affecting even those
with the thickest skin, lets the reader know
Wendts stories are being heard. His stories
blend old and new as well as different
perspectives and have left a permanent mark on
her life.
28Zoom out - PEE
- P - Purpose
- Why did she write the text?
- (Check the title!)
- E Elaborate
- Tone
- Response
- Links to wider world (Beyond the lines)
- E Evaluate
- Successful?
- Include quote bites throughout your answer.
29Zoom out - PEE
- P - Purpose
- Mila wrote the poem for Albert Wendt on his
birthday as a gift to show her appreciation for
his stories and to praise him for his craft.
30Zoom out - PEE
- E Elaborate
- Birthdays are a time to celebrate a person and
Milas poem celebrates the writing and
imagination of this man using direct address
(you) in recognition ofthe gifts his life has
brought to us all but especially those of
Polynesian culture. The four different extended
metaphors in each stanze use concrete nouns which
have links to Wendts Samoan culture (fish, coral
reefs, net, nuanua, frangipani) which shows her
appreciation for his culture. The overall tone is
appropriately positive to show that she likes the
way he challenges them Dare to fish.. is
imaginative beyond our understanding and
optimistic you find nuanua in hurricanes. She
is specific in her praise of him.
31Zoom out - PEE
- E Evaluate
- Milas beautiful poem successfully crafts
extended metaphors to illustrate her strong
appreciation of Wendt. She shows how his
narratives have the power to get under the
skin, unsettle but ultimately enlighten in a
sacred ritual which will leave its mark
(tattooing) upon current and future generations
(genealogies). His poems are therefore powerful
and permanent.
32Top Tips for Tackling Unfamiliar Texts
- The title is usually an important clue of the
main idea the writer wants us to think about. - A footnote will tell you the source of the text,
which can give you a clue about the audience and
purpose. - Glossed words give useful definitions.
- Identify the most important language features and
write notes/underline the text. (Dont choose
alliteration!) - Read the questions carefully and underline key
words.
33Remember Use TEEPEE to analyse texts
convincingly and perceptively for Excellence.
34Remember
- Poems are like songs without the music.
- Poetry the best words in the best order.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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35More Familiar Texts Group work
- Read the lyrics to this familiar song and
- Use TEEPEE to convincingly and perceptively
analyse the text.
36Battle Scars by Lupe Fiasco Guy
Sebastianhttp//www.youtube.com/watch?v_mPd_SDAr
yQfeatureplayer_detailpage
37- Hope the wound heals but it never doesThat's
cause you're at war with loveYou're at war with
love, yeahChorus These battle scars don't look
like they're fading, Don't look like they're ever
going awayThey ain't never gonna change, These
battle...Never let a wound ruin meBut I feel
like ruin's wooing meArrow holes, they never
close from Cupid on a shooting spreeFeeling
stupid cause I know it ain't no you and meBut
when you're trying to beat the odds upBeen
trying to keep your nods upAnd you know that you
should knowAnd let her goBut the fear of the
unknownHolding another lover strongSends you
back into the zoneWith no Tom Hanks to bring you
homeA lover not a fighterOn the front line with
a poemTrying to write yourself a rifleMaybe
sharpen up a stoneTo fight the tanks and drones
of you being alone
38- I wish I never looked, I wish I never touchedI
wish that I could stop loving you so muchCause
I'm the only one that's trying to keep us
togetherWhen all of the signs say that I should
forget herI wish you weren't the best, the best
I ever hadI wish that the good outweighed the
badCause it'll never be over, until you tell me
it's overThese battle scars, don't look like
they're fadingDon't look like they're ever going
awayThey ain't never gonna changeThese battle
scars, don't look like they're fadingDon't look
like they're ever going awayThey ain't never
gonna changeThese battle...(Then just
leave)You shouldn't have but you said it(And I
hope you never come back)It shouldn't have
happened but you let itNow you're down on the
ground screaming medicThe only thing that comes
is the post-traumatic stressesShields, body
armours and vests don't properly workThat's why
you're in a locker full of hurtThe enemy within
and all the fires from your friendsThe best
medicine is to probably just let it winI wish I
couldn't feel, I wish I couldn't loveI wish that
I could stop cause it hurts so muchAnd I'm the
only one that's trying to keep us togetherWhen
all of the signs say that I should forget herI
wish you weren't the best, the best I ever hadI
wish that the good outweighed the badCause it'll
never be over, until you tell me it's
over(Chorus)Cause you've set me on fireI've
never felt so alive, yeahHoping wounds heal,
but it never doesThat's because you're at war
with loveAnd I'm at the point of breakingAnd
it's impossible to shake itSee, you hoped the
wound heals, but it never doesThat's cause
you're at war with loveHope it heals, but it
never doesThat's cause you're at war with
love!Chorus
39Techniques - definitions
- 1. Metaphor/extended metaphor a direct
comparison between two very different things,
usually impossible. An extended metaphor is
long/developed. - 2. Direct address use of 2nd person pronouns
you to talk to the reader. - 3. Concrete noun a noun (thing) you can see or
touch. Many similar nouns may indicate an
extended metaphor. - 4. Symbolism use of a concrete noun to
represent an abstract noun (idea/feeling) or
organisation. - 5. Vivid Verb a verb (doing word) which is
specific and has impact. May have a positive or
negative tone. - 6. Connotation ideas or feelings associated
with a word. - 7. Hyperbole exaggeration for effect.
- 8. Rhetorical question a question asked for
effect. - 9. Emotive language words that stir emotion in
the audience. - 10. Allusion reference to another literary work
or text.
40What poems link with the song Battle Scars?
- Poems Shoved at Memorial Park
41- Shoved at Memorial Park
- By Marcel Currin
- A big kid is eyeballing my son.
- The big kid is four years old.
- I hate him already.
- Fletcher is two and a half,
- Trip-tropping over the playground,
- A tiny fish on a busy reef.
- Whirling colours of children
- Swirling over ladders, platforms, slides,
- Riding and fighting the eddies.
- Fletcher in baggy shorts.
- Finding the gaps
- For a quiet turn on things.
42Perfect by Pinkhttp//www.youtube.com/watch?v2
12iYwq0nQ0safeactive
43- Made a wrong turn, Once or twice
- Dug my way out, Blood and fire
- Bad decisions, That's alright
- Welcome to my silly life Mistreated, misplaced,
misunderstood - Miss "no way, it's all good", It didn't slow me
down - Mistaken, Always second guessing
- Under estimated, Look, I'm still around
- Chorus
- Pretty, pretty please
- Don't you ever, ever feel
- Like you're less than perfect.
- Pretty, pretty please If you ever, ever feel
- Like you're nothing
- You are perfect to me.
- You're so mean, When you talk, About yourself,
You were wrong. - Change the voices, In your head
-
- Make them like you Instead.
44Titanium by David Guetta featuring Sia
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vJRfuAukYTKgsafeac
tive
45- You shout it out,But I can't hear a word you
sayI'm talking loud not saying muchI'm
criticized but all your bullets ricochetYou
shoot me down, but I get upChorusI'm
bulletproof, nothing to loseFire away, fire
awayRicochet, you take your aimFire away, fire
awayYou shoot me down but I won't fallI am
titaniumYou shoot me down but I won't fallI am
titaniumSiaCut me downBut it's you who'll
have further to fallGhost town and haunted
loveRaise your voice, sticks and stones may
break my bonesI'm talking loud not saying much - ChorusI'm bulletproof, nothing to loseFire
away, fire awayRicochet, you take your aimFire
away, fire awayYou shoot me down but I won't
fallI am titaniumYou shoot me down but I won't
fallI am titaniumI am titaniumI am
titaniumSiaStone-hard, machine gunFiring
at the ones who runStone-hard as bulletproof
glassChorusYou shoot me down but I won't
fallI am titaniumYou shoot me down but I won't
fallI am titaniumYou shoot me down but I won't
fallI am titaniumYou shoot me down but I won't
fallI am titaniumI am titanium
46Take It Easy by Stan Walkerhttp//www.youtube.c
om/watch?vuMT_kr-F7ZQsafeactive
47- Stronger days, Bitter nights,Cold hands, Warm
heart,Walking round,But you're staring at the
ground,Take hold, fall apart.ChorusLittle by
little,Someone blows the whistle,It don't
matter in the end,So just slow it all down, slow
it all down.You gotta take it easy, easy,Live
your life,Take on any kind of weather you and me
together,We'll be fine,You gotta take it easy,
easyTake your time,It's just you and me
together any kind of weather,We'll be
fine,Open road, broken down,Bright lights,
dark town,Stand up then you fall again,You will
find a way in the end.ChorusYou gotta take it
easy, easy,Live your life,Take on any kind of
weather you and me together,We'll be fine,You
gotta take it easy, easy,Take your time,It's
just you and me together any kind of
weather,We'll be fine,
48Mirrors by Justin Timberlakehttp//www.youtube.
com/watch?vU41KPUfOSFksafeactive
49What poems link with these songs?
- Titanium by David Guetta
- Perfect by Pink
- Haunted by Taylor Swift
- Take It Easy by Stan Walker
- Mirrors by Justin Timberlake