Assignment Details

Nettles paragraph

2024-25

9B1 English

Date Due

Nov. 25, 2024

Additional Info
Please complete your 'Nettles' paragraphs using the template on the content library (page with the poem annotations). You should focus on the two quotations we analysed today ('That regiment of spite behind the shed' and 'With sobs and tears / The boy came seeking comfort and I saw / White blisters beaded on his tender skin').

  • Provide the quotation in full initially (embedded) and then explode
  • Zoom in on three aspects of each quotation
  • Identify technique or connotations and comment on effect (use words like: implies, suggests, evokes, highlights, emphasises)
  • At some point in your paragraph, consider the writer's intention and reader response
  • If you can, try and include a snazzy sentence (see under Essential Documents)
Continue where you had started - either by hand or typed.

On Monday, we will start with a peer review before looking at our next poem.