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LO: Explore how vocabulary can tell us about different cultures

What does culture mean?

The ideas, beliefs, celebrations, social choices, behaviors and ways of life of a particular group of people.

Which cultures do these pictures

represent?

Steps to Success I can:

Listen carefully to an unfamiliar poem.

Think about the style and language of the poem and what this might tell me.

Identify new vocabulary and explore its meaning to help me understand the poem.

Granny is (Valerie Bloom)

Granny isstories in the moonlightunderneath the guangu treeand a spider web of magicall round we. Granny say,‘Only de best fe de gran’children,it don’t matter what de price,don’t want no one pointin’ finger’Granny nice

Granny isfried dumplin’ an’run-dungcoconut drops an’ grater cake,fresh coffee smell in the mornin’when we wake Granny isloadin’ up the donkeybasket full on market daywith fresh snapper the fishermen bring backfrom the bay Granny isclothes washin’ in the riverscrubbin’ dirt out on the stonehaulin’ crayfish an’ eel from wateron her own.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=2814

Granny is (Valerie Bloom)

What might this poem be about?

What culture may it reflect?

Are there any words that you don’t recognise?

Granny isstories in the moonlightunderneath the guangu treeand a spider web of magicall round we. Granny say,‘Only de best fe de gran’children,it don’t matter what de price,don’t want no one pointin’ finger’Granny nice

Granny isfried dumplin’ an’run-dungcoconut drops an’ grater cake,fresh coffee smell in the mornin’when we wake Granny isloadin’ up the donkeybasket full on market daywith fresh snapper the fishermen bring backfrom the bay Granny isclothes washin’ in the riverscrubbin’ dirt out on the stonehaulin’ crayfish an’ eel from wateron her own.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=2814

Word Bank (words we don’t recognise)

Granny is

clothes washin’ in the riverscrubbin’ dirt out on the stone

haulin’ crayfish an’ eel from wateron her own.

What does Granny do ?Why does she do this?

Do Grannies all over the world do this?How is she different?

How is she the same as other Grannies?How might this make her feel?

How might she look?How might she smell?

What might it tell you about the culture?

Granny is (Valerie Bloom)

What is this poem be about?

What culture may it reflect?

Granny isstories in the moonlightunderneath the guangu treeand a spider web of magicall round we. Granny say,‘Only de best fe de gran’children,it don’t matter what de price,don’t want no one pointin’ finger’Granny nice

Granny isfried dumplin’ an’run-dungcoconut drops an’ grater cake,fresh coffee smell in the mornin’when we wake Granny isloadin’ up the donkeybasket full on market daywith fresh snapper the fishermen bring backfrom the bay Granny isclothes washin’ in the riverscrubbin’ dirt out on the stonehaulin’ crayfish an’ eel from wateron her own.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=2814

Granny is..

What stuck with you ?How did vocabulary tell you about a different

culture?

By looking at the vocabulary in Granny Is I found out about the Jamaican culture that….

I get this and feel very confident

I think I get it but would like more time

This makes no sense please explain again

LO:Explore how vocabulary can tell us about different cultures