Seagull

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Seagull

• S2 poetry
• Understanding

2
Dictionary race

• Write down the word and the dictionary definition
• 1. Marauder
• 2. Prey (verb)?
• 3. Hooligan
• 4. Gluttony
• 5. Rank (noun)?
• 6. Brazen

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Seagulls

• Make a small spider diagram with seagulls at the
  centre
• In your diagram, jot down your thoughts and
  feelings on seagulls. Heard any stories connected
  with seagulls?

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Seagull news

• Seagull becomes crisp shoplifter 20 Jul 07  
  North East/N Isles
• Sweet-toothed gull steals mobile 25 May 06  
  Devon
• Couple bullied by angry seagull 17 Jul 04  
  North West Wales
• Seagull attack 'like Hitchcock film' 20 Aug
  03   Kent

5
The magic of poetry!

• In his poem Seagull, Brian McCabe does get
  across these ideas about seagulls in very
  interesting ways.
• The poem is a dramatic monologue
• dramatic monologue

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Right, lets read the poem