Activity: Exploring themes and ideas
Remove the title from the text (as above) and ask students to suggest possible titles. The students will need an understanding of the text’s main themes and ideas in order to be able to do this. The teacher takes various answers and asks students to explain why they chose the title they did. Then the teacher reveals the title and asks students to discuss why the writer went with that one. What might the effect on the reader be?
The title of the above text is: Suicide in the Trenches Click here for a performance of the poem.
Activity: Using Venn diagrams for comparison
It is extremely important that students learn how to compare texts. Often, especially under exam conditions, students will analyse two texts separately and forget to identify similarities and differences between them. This activity can be used in class but also the students will have time, even in the exam, to plan their answer in this way.
The students analyse one text in one circle; the other text in the other circle and then identify similarities in the middle where the two circles cross.
How has the company advertised this product to:
A Reader Similarities
A Traveller
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