Evaluative Phase-Love and hate

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Evaluative Phase –Love and hate

First we looked at the poem “Stop the clocks” by W.H. Auden. Before we thought about adding hate we thought about what the poem is about. It’s about a woman who’s husband has just died and how she is devastated about his death and thinks the whole world should mourn his death because he was so great (or at least he was to her). So we now had 2 characters the husband and wife and we knew the husband was going to die, which would devastate the woman so much that she wrote the poem.

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        Next we looked at the word ‘hate’ and its implications. Everyone in the group had to say one thing they hated. Then we all went into small groups (about 3 people) and had to make a still image of some form of hate. We chose to do an image of a person being executed by terrorists.

Then as a whole group we thought about how we could add hate to the poem. So we thought that the man could have been killed because he had been hated, then it developed further and we thought the woman could have killed ...

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