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Area of Study: Belonging

Area of Study: Belonging. Year 12 Standard English. This lesson our learning intentions are:. Entry Pass. Check Feliks Skrzynecki questions. Annotate Feliks Skrzynecki . How to make notes about poems? – handout. Details about Friday. Entry Pass.

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Area of Study: Belonging

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  1. Area of Study: Belonging Year 12 Standard English.

  2. This lesson our learning intentions are: • Entry Pass. • Check FeliksSkrzynecki questions. • Annotate FeliksSkrzynecki. • How to make notes about poems? – handout. • Details about Friday.

  3. Entry Pass. • Using the template and your own knowledge, in 25 words or less summarise the poem FeliksSkrzynecki.

  4. FeliksStrzyneck Questions. 1. Where does Feliks feel a sense of belonging? Why? How do stanzas 1 and 2 create this feeling of belonging? 2. In stanza 3, who belongs? Who does not belong? How are these feelings created? 3. In stanza 5, Feliks’ experience with bureaucracy is presented. Explain this experience. What is the department clerk’s perception of Feliks? Who belongs in this situation? What are the barriers to Feliks’s belonging? 4. Back in the garden in stanza 6, who belongs? How is his sense of belonging created? 5. Stanza 7 contrasts the previous sense of belonging with Peter Skrzynecki’sadolescent experiences. What happens to Peter? 6. Where does FeliksSkrzynecki choose to belong? Does he make any choices not to belong? 7. Where does Peter Skrzynecki choose to belong? Does he make any choices not to belong? 8. What is Peter Skrzynecki’s perception of his father’s sense of belonging in this poem? 9. What is Peter Skrzynecki’s perception of his own belonging? 10. Do you relate to this poem at all? Have you experienced or witnessed a similar sense of belonging or of alienation in your own cultural identity?

  5. FeliksSkrzynecki. Annotating the poem.

  6. Annotating the Poem. • We are going to annotate the poem together. • This lesson I have annotated the poem and I will leave it up to you to decide which information you would like to write down.

  7. Word choice: gentle – shows love for his father. Simile: the poet is an only child, used to emphasise the devotion and care he also received from his father. Following the trends others/trying to fit in. My gentle father Kept pace only with the Joneses Of his own mind’s making – Loved his garden like an only child, Spent years walking its perimeter From sunrise to sleep. Alert, brisk and silent, He swept its paths ten times around the world. Siblance – used to suggest circle of movement. Checking around the edge of his garden everyday. Shows energy, forcefulness and purpose, no need to talk place of calm and peace Siblance: the quality of being pronounced with a characteristic hissing sound

  8. Hands show signs of manual physical labour: ‘like sods’ a simile used to compare his dark cracked, work, worn hands with dark earth he is turning over, reminder of the manual work in his life. Hand show signs of manual physical labour “like Hands darkened From cement, fingers with cracks Like the sods he broke, I often wondered how he existed On five or six hours’ sleep each night – Why his arms didn’t fall off From the soil he turned And tobacco he rolled. This is a child’s view of his father. working so competitively and continually at things the poet himself could not relate to- tone of a child’s wonder Hyperbole used again to convey child’s wonder at his father’s work.

  9. As a child he is critical of the immigrant’s friends loudness and effusiveness, their need for formality unlike the causal Australian ways he has accepted as normal. (He is assimilating well-as a child he identifies himself as Australian) ‘they reminisced’ looked back fondly to their home life back in Europe- a different way of life , scenery and work- alien to the poet. His Polish friends Always shook hands too violently, I thought . . . FeliksSkrzynecki, That formal address I never got used to. Talking, they reminisced About farms where paddocks flowered With corn and wheat, Horses they bred, pigs They were skilled in slaughtering. Five years of forced labour in Germany Did not dull the softness of his blue eyes. The horrors of war does not affect the joy/ love he has in the memories of his home ‘softness’ reminds us of the opening lines ‘gentle’

  10. I never once heard • Him complain of work, the weather • Or pain. When twice • They dug cancer out of his foot, • His comment was: “but I’m alive”.  Indicates Felik’s character- he never complained and tried to find the positive in all things.

  11. There is evidence of a shift- the child is feeling detached from his father’s heritage Growing older, I Remember words he taught me, Remnants of a language I inherited unknowingly – the curse that damned A crew-cut, grey-haired Department clerk Who asked me in dancing-bear grunts: “Did your father ever attempt to learn English?” Word choice ‘remnants’- discarded language of no use to Peter A sense of isolation due to lack of ‘English language’ affects the son as well due to Polish heritage

  12. The beauty of the visual imagery of the garden and it colour is vivid. It is a harmonious place for Feliks On the back steps of his house, Bordered by golden cypress, Lawns – geraniums younger Than both parents, My father sits out the evening With his dog, smoking, Watching stars and street lights come on, Happy as I have never been. Felik’s only companion is the dog- heightens sense of isolation however there is a sense Felik’sis content in this narrow world Peter’s status as a migrant leaves him feeling discontent- he feels he does not belong to either culture

  13. This stanza reflects the loss of language altogether, the loss of language, is in a senses the loss of his parents heritage in this new land. His father is silently aware but unable to change his son’s course. At thirteen, Stumbling over tenses in Caesar’s Gallic War, I forgot my first Polish word. He repeated it so I never forgot. After that, like a dumb prophet, Watched me pegging my tents Further and further south of Hadrian’s Wall. Hadrian’s Wall: Hadrian was Roman emperor who constructed a wall to defend the Roman provinces in Britian against attacks from the north. The pegging of the tents refers to the Roman army in the filed o battle but also, metaphorically making a stand against the enemy. Felik’s will watch his son move further and further away from his Polish heritage. Ironically the son is learning latin, the language of the Romans.

  14. Representation of Belonging. • It Shows Feliks' choice not to belong and completely immerse himself into Australian culture. On the surface he seems to fit into the Australian lifestyle yet he has a deeper connection to Polish culture and Poland. • The narrator tries to belong to a country he never knew and only belongs in the aspects which have been unknowingly passed down to him e.g. bloodline, language. • It also shows the sense of the father and son belonging to each other.

  15. How to make notes about poems?

  16. Friday’s Lesson. • I will be away on Friday in Canberra. • You won’t have to come period 0, but you are expected here period 1. • You will have the period to work on completing the following from your writing portfolio: • Task #1 (I will leave you a scaffold) • Task #3 and Task #4 • Task #7

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