You will be working on four poems by Seamus Heaney. The poems are Personal Helicon, Black-berry Picking, Digging, and Follower.
Broad connection: Childhood
Sub connection 1 (Personal Helicon/Black-berry Picking): Loss of innocence
Sub connection 2 (Digging/Follower): Relationship with father
Include some specific details of Heaney’s childhood at Mossbawn – the family farm and his Irish heritage and cultural context. Also try and make theme a bit more specific – eg Images and depictions of childhood in Heaney’s poetry. Enf of innocence is a good sub-connection but relationships needs to be connected to overall theme more – perhaps Childhood experiences and relationships which influenced Heaney’s poetry.
Achievement with Excellence
Respond critically and perceptively to significant connections across texts, supported by evidence.
Make sure you:
reach Merit
respond critically to the connections between your texts using selected evidence from each text to thoroughly develop detailed points
use clear reasons, judgement or commentary of the effect of the connections
show insight or originality of how features of the texts show the connections
comment on the author’s purpose
compare texts by introducing another appropriately related topic or concept.
Consider wider implications of the connection between texts
