To write my own recipe poem

Key Stage 2

English

The British by Benjamin Zephaniah

﻿Hello everyone, It's Mr. Brown here with the last lesson of our unit, and today we're going to be writing our own poem using Benjamin Zephaniah's poem, The British, as our inspiration. So, let's go for it. Our learning objective for this lesson is to write my own recipe poem. In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper, a pen or pencil, something to write with, and most definitely your brain. But, it's our last lesson of this unit, so, one last time let's refresh our memories. Let's read The British by Benjamin Zephaniah. The British . Take some Picts, Celts and Silures and let them settle. Then overrun them with Roman Conquerors. Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years and add lots of Norman French to some Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously. Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans, Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese, Vietnamese and Sudanese. Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians, and Pakistanis, combine them with some Guyanese and turn up the heat. Sprinkle some fresh Indians, Malaysians, Bosnians, Iraqis, and Bangladeshis together with some Afghans, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish, Japanese, and Palestinians. Then add to the melting pot. Leave the ingredients to simmer. As they mix and blend, allow their languages to flourish. Binding them together with English. Allow time to be cool. Add some unity, understanding and respect for the future. Serve with justice and enjoy. Note: All the ingredients are equally important. Treating one ingredient better than another Will leave a bitter unpleasant taste. Warning: An unequal spread of justice will damage the people and cause pain. Give justice and equality to all. Using that incredible poem's inspiration, let's start planning our own poem. Here is the poem that I have created inspired by Benjamin Zephaniah's poem, Uh, The British and this poem is all about making a successful team. He wrote a poem about how to make Britain a success, why Britain is so successful and here's mine for making a successful team. First, take a handful of ambition and a pinch of a dream. Sprinkle those both on a large green surface. Use a coach to mix together hardworking defenders, tough, battling midfielders, slick, silky strikers, and an agile, athletic goalie. Add this mixture together at least three nights a week for optimum success. Roll everything out onto the surface and turn up the heat with dozens of watchful eyes. Warning, the team will not rise if one player plays as an individual. Only together, can everyone taste victory. And to plan that, I ensured that I had lots of recipe-related verbs in there, and I did a mind map for all the different ingredients that would be needed to make a successful team. Last lesson your task was to generate as many different things to make a successful school that you could think of. Here is my example, if you've got yours there from last lesson, fantastic. You can put it out and you can take off any of that I have the same. If you didn't get a chance to do that, you can actually pause the lesson and do it now. Write down a list of all the things a successful school needs. Okay. Let's see what I came up with. Starting at the very top, about eleven o'clock if this was a clock we've got reception children. You can't have a school without reception children, then key stage ones and key stage twos. That's all the children covered. That was the most important thing you had to have in a school. Then I thought classrooms, and of course, if you've got classrooms, you need teachers, playtime, hard work, a playground, lessons, school lunch, I thought such a key part of the day and then fun. school should be fun and it definitely needs to be in our perfect successful school. So, let's remind ourselves, We need recipe verbs to write our poem we'd need lots of verbs that could also be used in a recipe. I've started you off with "pour", how many can you add? Can you pause the lesson and write down as many verbs that can be used in recipes as you can think of. Off you go. I'll see you when you're done. Okay, let's see how many of my verbs that I generated. Did you manage to think of two? So starting at "pour", which we have before and going clockwise, settle, roast, take, boil, simmer, roll, blend, rise, mix, combine. Okay. So we've got our ingredients. There it is, and we've got our verbs. We're ready to go. I've gone for the title of "A School ". And I spent a long time thinking about the serving part. And I first had served a community, which I thought was really nice because a school does the community. Uh, and then I changed it to lifetime because I wanted to get something in there about school, staying with you, your entire life. Everything you learned in school, you know, prepares you, puts you on uh, the next step for your life. Uh, so I changed it to lifetime. But, I really liked "serves a community" too. First, mix a good amount of key stage one and key stage two together. Add a sprinkle of reception to spice things up. I thought about reception, I thought, they would be the spicy ones, wouldn't they? They are the ones that make school really interesting, the ones that, um, can save things that you least expect, and I thought they would be ones to spice things up and sprinkle. Definitely, cause they're quite little so you could sprinkle them on. Take a handful of dedicated teachers, which would allow the flavours to flourish. I had to steal Benjamin Zephaniah's "flourish" verb. It's absolutely lovely. "Flourish", I've used as a really positive thing that the teachers allow the flavours to flourish. What are the flavours? Yeah, it's you guys, the children. The teachers, dedicated teachers, they allow the flavours to flourish. After no time at all, the mixture will begin to rise You, the children in this school will rise, you'll become more confident. You'll become more intelligent, more mature, you'll be rising up. Now, I wanted to get school lunches in there and I thought, what verb could I use? And I thought "pour" is good, and I feel I would describe school lunches as a dollop. You know, like you're getting a dollop of mashed potato on your plate, pour on a dollop of school lunch and a pinch of playtime. Carefully, place everything into a classroom and allow the lessons to sink in. So, talking about they're allowing the noise that teachers are giving you in your lessons, allowing that to sink in. I wanted something about that process of it takes time. Finish by decorating, with hard work and fun. Note: without the decoration, the overall flavour will be dull and uninteresting. So I wanted to make sure that you understand you can have all of those things, but without hard work from the children and the teachers and all the staff in a school and fun, then it's not going to be the place that we want to work in. It's not going to be the place we want to come to school. It's going to be dull and uninteresting. Hard work and fun. And my warning, this recipe, could only be made once by each person. So enjoy it while you can. What's the message of my poem? We know Benjamin Zephaniah's The British was all about equality, making sure that everyone is treated equally. My poem about a team was all about working as a team and not being an individual. What's the message from my poem about a school? There's a couple in there, isn't there? You've got the, um, hard work and fun, but you've also got that message in the warning. This recipe can only be made once by each person. You can only have your school years once. I can't go back to year two, can I? I can't go back to my time at secondary school. I can't even go back to my time at university. You only get these things once. So enjoy it while you can. Your years at school are so precious and so valuable in shaping your lives and the people that you will become. You must enjoy them while you can. So, it's now your turn. Your task is to write your own recipe poem. You can use our example to write one about a successful school, or you are welcome to try using your own ideas. Here are some ideas that I came up with. You could write a poem about, how to make a movie, or the ingredients you need for a movie, a friendship, it would be a really nice one, a story, so what does a story need? A villain, how to make a villain. So, your villain in a story, what makes them so interesting and so scary? You know, and then I saw them. I thought it could be in there as well, but you're welcome to use your own ideas or to use our idea about a successful school, or my idea about a team, it's up to you. Well done everyone. It has been an absolute pleasure. A really nice unit, and great to be able to discuss such important things, uh, and to be able to be as creative as we've been in the last few lessons. Well done, everyone. I will see you soon. Take care. Bye.

To write my own recipe poem

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