Football PoetryHillsborough Disaster

Lesson Eight

Learning Objectives:To apply your knowledge of poetic

devices to a piece of poetry

Assessment Foci:Reading AF5Writing AF2

Task One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtRs-3jQmf8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SmM9KuhIQ&feature=related

Read the information sheet on Hillsborough.

Task Two

Read the poem ‘The Justice Bell’ by Dave Kirby and highlight the poetic techniques used within the poem.

Answer the discussion questions either in groups or individually.

Discussion Questions

• What is the poem about?• Who are the 96 souls?

• What happened when the clock was locked at 3:06?

• Why does the poet call the crowd a ‘sea of death’? What poetic device is

this?• Can you find examples of personification in the poem?

Task Three

Can you write your own poem dedicated to the Hillsborough disaster?