Starter quiz
- What is sensory language?
- language that expresses possibility
- language that describes emotions
- language that appeals to the five senses ✓
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- Match the sense to the sentence describing it.
- Smell⇔The aroma of fresh bread wafted through the kitchen. ✓
- Taste⇔The sweet juice of the apple seeped onto her tongue. ✓
- Touch⇔She swept her fingers over the soft silk. ✓
- Sight⇔The orange and pink hues of the sunset were mesmerising. ✓
- Sound⇔Loud caws echoed in the cave. ✓
- What is a preposition?
- a word that describes a noun
- a word used to form a compound sentence
- a word that signals the location, direction, time of something else ✓
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- Which sentence contains a prepositional phrase?
- I admired the flowers in the palace garden. ✓
- The flowers were delicate, beautiful and vibrant.
- Delicately I caressed the flower petals.
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- What is a stanza?
- a pause within a line of poetry
- each section of a poem separated by a line break ✓
- a type of rhyme scheme
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- What is one possible meaning of the word 'tracks'?
- something forgotten easily
- marks left behind by something ✓
- open space not discovered by anyone
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Exit quiz
- In 'Childhood Tracks' what does James Berry write about?
- growing up
- living in England
- living in Jamaica ✓
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- Which technique does Berry use throughout 'Childhood Tracks'?
- simile
- sensory language ✓
- alliteration
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- What is structurally interesting about 'Childhood Tracks' by James Berry?
- Each stanza is set around a different stage of Berry's life.
- The poem is written in the style of a letter.
- Each stanza describes a different sensory experience. ✓
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- Which memory below is unique to London?
- Seeing tired faces nestled into shoulders on the Piccadilly line train. ✓
- Eating strawberries with sugar in a summer garden.
- Smelling the sweet fuschia outside my grandmother's porch.
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- What tone does 'Childhood Tracks' have?
- regretful
- nostalgic ✓
- resentful
- mournful
- sarcastic
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- Which of the below uses a triplet?
- seeing the shades of pink, orange and blue mix in the sky ✓
- listening to the melodic twinkle of the bells on the hillside
- smelling the cosy, comforting aroma of baked bread.
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Key learning points
- Berry uses sensory language in 'Childhood Tracks' to evoke a vivid image of his hometown, Jamaica.
- Berry describes details unique to Jamaica to help us have an insight into what it is like to live there.
- Berry also uses prepositions to add detail to each of his memories.
- Berry creates a nostalgic tone throughout the poem.
- Using triplets can add even more detail when writing about our memories.
Common misconception
Students may be used to starting any sensory language sentences with 'I can see, I can hear ...'
Poetry allows us to innovate with traditional writing structures to help a rhythmic flow and sense of nostalgia; help students recognise the difference between 'I can see ...' and 'Seeing ...'
Keywords
Vivid - producing strong and clear images in the mind.
Nostalgia - longing for a time in the past.
Unique - belonging or connected to one particular place or thing.
Preposition - a word usually signifying the direction, time or place of something else.
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