Exploring William Carlos Williams's poem 'The Hunters in the Snow'

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Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus: how the myth inspired the painting

Exploring William Carlos Williams’s poem ‘Landscape with the fall of Icarus’

Exploring W.H. Auden's poem 'Musée des Beaux Arts'

Exploring Walter de la Mare's poem 'Brueghel's Winter'

Comparing poems: 'Brueghel's Winter' and 'The Hunters in the Snow'

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott': understanding the ballad

Symbolism in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's ‘The Lady of Shalott’

Exploring enjambment in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's ‘The Lady of Shalott’

Descriptive writing using Lord Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott' as stimulus

Effective sensory language using ‘The Execution of Lady Jane Grey’ as stimulus

Third person omniscient writing: ‘The Execution of Lady Jane Grey’ as stimulus

Writing a full descriptive piece: ‘The Execution of Lady Jane Grey' as stimulus

Reviewing and refining descriptive writing: alliteration, plosives and sibilance

Natasha Bowen's ‘Skin of the Sea’: understanding the extract

Writing inspired by ‘Skin of the Sea’: varying sentence types to create rhythm

Use of flashback in Natasha Bowen's 'Skin of the Sea'

Geoffrey Chaucer's ‘The Canterbury Tales’: compelling characterisation

Creating convincing characters using ‘The Canterbury Tales’ as stimulus

Pat Barker's 'The Silence of the Girls': understanding the extract

Madeline Miller's 'The Song of Achilles': understanding the extract

Comparative paragraphs: 'The Silence of the Girls' and 'The Song of Achilles'

Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘The Fisherman and the Jinni’: understanding the story

Exploring the theme of power in Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘One Thousand and One Nights’

The five part narrative structure

Planning a narrative using the five part narrative structure

Writing a full narrative piece using the five part narrative structure

Improving and proofreading a piece of narrative writing

In 'Myths and Legends Re-Told', pupils explore how they can alter traditional stories to convey modern ideas and morals. In 'Animal Farm: the Pigs and Power', pupils learn about Orwell's allegory and understand how he uses an apparently simple fairy story to convey a political message. 

In 'Step Into the Unknown', pupils look at the ways in which famous children's writers create convincing settings, particularly through descriptions of windows and doors. In 'Myths and Legends Re-Told', pupils take inspiration from the ways in which writers and poets use powerful imagery and symbolism, to inspire their own writing. 

In this unit, pupils read and explore a range of text types in connection to classical myths and legends. They first look at poetry before doing some descriptive writing inspired by poetry and paintings. They then explore Chaucer and modern retellings of myths to inspire their narrative writing.

Myths, legends and stories that inspire

Depiction or discussion of violence or fighting, including threats of violence or the aftermath of violence.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Williams Carlos Williams poem 'The Hunters in the Snow' (Myths, legends and stories that inspire) is an ekphrastic poem. Why is it an ekphrastic poem?

Williams Carlos Williams poem 'The Hunters in the Snow' (Myths and Legends) describes a number of things in Pieter Bruegel's painting of the same name. Match the item to how Williams describes it.

A pupil said of Pieter Bruegel's painting 'The Hunters in the Snow' (Myths, legends and stories that inspire): "The hunters look dejected". What does the word dejected mean?

Match each stanza of William Carlos Williams poem 'The Hunters in the Snow' (Myths, legends and stories that inspire) to its focus.

Pieter Bruegel's painting 'The Hunters in the Snow' (Myths, legends and stories that inspire) depicts a {{ }} winter scene which means it is of the countryside, rather than a city, town or urban area.

Williams Carlos Williams's poem 'The Hunters in the Snow' (Myths and Legends) doesn't uses any punctuation. We would describe each line of his poem as ...

In the unit 'Myths, legends and stories that inspire', we learn about a number of different artists and poets. Match each person to something we know about them.

In the unit 'Myths, legends and stories that inspire', we look at some poems by Williams Carlos Williams. Williams carefully selects the adjectives in his poems. Which of the following are adjectives?

when one or more words begin with the same letter

repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of sentences

when you don't use any punctuation in a line of poetry

a method of comparison using 'like' or 'as'

In the unit 'Myths, legends and stories that inspire', we look at some poems by Williams Carlos Williams. He uses a simile in one of them. What is a simile?

In the unit 'Myths and Legends', we look at a poem called 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus' by Williams Carlos Williams. Williams doesn't use any punctuation in this poem which increases the …?

In the unit 'Myths, legends and stories that inspire', we look at a poem called 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus' by Williams Carlos Williams. What type of poem is it?

his poem has the same title as the painting it describes

In the unit 'Myths, legends and stories that inspire', we look at some poems by Williams Carlos Williams. Williams uses enjambment in every line of these poems. What does this mean?

Starter Quiz

In the unit 'Myths, legends and stories that inspire', we learn about a number of different artists and poets. Match each person to something we know about them.