Masks

Aug 12, 2026

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identity

⋮⋮ Program

• 12.05 Hangman of the day
• 12.10 Identity in context
• 12.20 Reading poems
• 12.30 We Wear the Mask
• 12.50 Break
• 13.05 Analysing poems
  • Types of poems
  • FLIRT-model
• 13.35 Where Children Sleep
• 14.05 Break
• 14.20 What Remains of Edith Finch?
• 15.00 Exit-ticket

Hangman of the day

word: paradoxical
hint: Term from last lesson
max: 6

word: multitudes
hint: Term from last lesson
max: 6

word: metamorphosis
hint: Term from last lesson
max: 6

Identity in context

• Fill out the “Identity in context”-handout. Feel free to discuss your answers with your neighbour.

Reading poems

1. Read the poem out loud!
2. Read it again.
3. Revisit ambigous places, and look up difficult words.
4. Summarise the plot.

We Wear the Mask

1. Read the poem out loud!
2. Read it again.
3. Visit ambigous places, and look up difficult words.
4. Summarise the plot.

Analysing poems

1. Determine the type of poem
2. Use the FLIRT-model to analyse the poem
3. Always remember to give examples from the poem to substantiate your analysis.

Types of poems

• Didactic poems: clear message or moral; meant to teach or explain something directly.
  Examples: “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep”, “Eternity”, “If—”
• Dramatic monologue: an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener; often a persona poem.
  Examples: “Maximus, to himself”, “Lady Lazarus”
• Elegy: poem of mourning for someone who is dead; often moves from lament to praise to consolation.
  Examples: “O Captain! My Captain!”, “The Haw Lantern”
• Epic poems: long narrative poems with a heroic protagonist, legendary adventures, and historical or mythical importance.
  Examples: Beowulf, The Cantos, Paradise Lost
• Epigrams: very short poems, often witty or satirical, focused on a single thought or event.
  Example: “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker”
• Prose poems: written in prose form but read like poetry; often use repetition, symbols, and metaphors.
  Example: “Of Memory and Distance”
• Limericks: funny, light-hearted five-line poems with the rhyme scheme aabba.
• Sonnet: a 14-line poem, often about love, identity, or inner conflict, with a fixed rhyme scheme. Examples: “Sonnet 18”, “How Do I Love Thee?”

FLIRT-model

F — Form

• What structure does the poem have?
• Does the structure have a certain effect on the reader?
• Is there any correspondence between structure and content?

L — Language

• What language is used?
• Is the language emotive, persuasive, formal, informal etc.?
• Which sentence structures, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are used, and with what effect?

I — Imagery and rhetorical devices

• Is there use of metaphors, similes, antithesis, onomatopoeia, allusion, repetition, or alliteration?
• What is the effect?

R — Rhyme/rhythm

• Does the poem rhyme?
• Which rhyme scheme is used, and what is the effect?

T — Theme

• Is there a message or theme in the poem?
• Where is it visible?

Where Children Sleep

• Look at and discuss Where Children Sleep
  • What can we learn about the children based on their bedrooms?
  • How does this inform their identity?
  • Is this an expression of public or private identity?
  • Is it an invasion of their privacy?

What Remains of Edith Finch

Exit-ticket

• Do the quick-write exercise on the handout.

Materials

• Identity in context - handout
• We Wear the Mask
• Where Children Sleep
• Prelude - pacing questions