Hi there, Mr. Barnsley here.

Fantastic to see you today.

Thank you so much for joining me as we continue to study the poetry in the EdExcel Belonging cluster.

In today's lesson, we are gonna be looking at a new poem, Hardi's "My Mother's Kitchen." This is a fantastic poem that really talks about some deeply moving elements, things that we see in society.

So you're gonna need to make sure you have a copy of the poem at your disposal, ready to read and annotate.

You might have in the anthology, or you may have a separate copy of the poem.

But do make sure that's in front of you, and once you've got that, and then I think it's ready for us to begin.

Let's dive in.

So the outcome of today's lesson then is that you will be able to explain how Hardi the poet presents the impact of displacement in her poem.

Now, displacement is one of our key words in today's lesson.

And displacement means the action of moving something from its place or position.

So the action of moving something away from where it originally started.

Four other keywords, metaphorical, refugee, belonging, and sustenance.

I really want to draw your attention to two of those.

They are refugee and that is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

You may say that a refugee has been displaced from their country.

Now sustenance is the maintaining of something or someone or something in life or existence.

So keeping something or someone alive is a sustenance.

It's the maintaining of someone or something.

Alright, so five words keep an eye out for we will.

I'm sure talk about them more during the lesson.

Okay, so in our lesson today, we've got two learning cycles.

We are gonna be understanding the poem, reading it together, and then we're gonna be focusing on the context and thinking about how that might develop our understanding.

So let's dive into looking at "My Mother's Kitchen." So in today's lesson, we are gonna be exploring Choman Hardi's "My Mother's Kitchen." I want you to think then, what are the connotations of a mother's kitchen? When you see those words, a mother's kitchen, what ideas, feelings, emotions come to mind? Pause the video, if you've got a partner, you can discuss with them.

Otherwise, you can just think through this independently.

Okay, over to you.

Welcome back.

I heard some great ideas there.

I want to shine a spotlight on some of the fantastic things I heard.

I heard lots of you using words like warmth, comfort, safety, homelike.

Okay, lots of positive connotations I heard when you were thinking about those words mother's kitchen.

However, I'm gonna share with you some words from this poem.

Rusty, ugly, various sets.

Do those words match your expectation of what you think a mother's kitchen should be like? Over to you, pause video, have a bit of a think with a partner or by yourself and press play when you've got some ideas.

Welcome back.

Really interesting.

I heard lots of similar comments saying that actually these words seem suggesting whether that's quite disordered or uncared for, and that's possibly the opposite of what we were expecting.

Certainly doesn't kind of link up to these connotations of comfort and safety that we'd just been discussing.

So actually these words might seem quite unexpected for the title of this poem.

So you can find a copy of Hardi's "My Mother's Kitchen" in your at EdExcel Belonging anthology.

And of course, if you don't have a copy of the anthology, you are gonna need a copy of the poem because I'm gonna hand it over to you now to do some independent reading of the poem.

So pause the video and I want you to read through the poem once independently.

Over to you.

Welcome back.

Some great reading there.

Now whenever we read a poem, we are not just gonna read it once.

In fact, we're gonna end up over the course of studying a poem.

I'm sure we'll end up reading it numerous times.

But anyway, during our first reading, we should make sure the first time we're looking at poem, we should make sure we are reading it once, twice, three times.

So I'm gonna hand back over to you to read this poem a second time possibly even a third time and check you can answer the following questions.

Where is the mother moving to? How does the mother feel about the move? And how many times has she moved house or home? Pause video, reread this poem another once, twice, and see if you can answer these questions.

Press play when you think you're ready to move on.

Welcome back.

Some excellent reading there.

Really paying close attention to make sure you can answer those questions.

So you should have said that the mother is moving home and she's very, very excited about this move.

And we learn in the poem that actually the mother has moved nine times as the ninth time she has hacked to move home.

So we think that the mother is excited to be moving home after moving house so many times.

Let's try and unpick the history behind what the mother's story might be.

So the speaker in the poem references the mother's lost furniture and rebuilt house.

What do you think happened to the mother's original house? Why don't you pause? Have a think.

If you've got a partner, you can talk with them.

Otherwise, you could just think through this independently.

Looking at those phrases, lost furniture and rebuilt house, what do you think has happened to the mother's original home? Pause the video, have a think and press play when you've got some ideas.

Some really interesting discussions and theories out there.

I heard lots of you saying that some form of disaster potentially has caused the mother to move.

There seems to be a suggestion that this wasn't the mother's choice.

She's been forced into having to move from time to time.

So here are some other quotations from the poem.

In a rush on different occasions, it is her ninth time leaving her homes behind.

What sort of disaster do you think would force the mother to move? Why don't you kind of throw some ideas together to really try and use some clues from the poem.

What kind of disaster do you think would force the mother to move? If you've got a partner, you can think with them.

Otherwise, you can think through this independently.

Pause the video, have a think, and press play when you've got some ideas.

Yeah, some really fantastic ideas there.

It was really impressive to hear you like quoting sections of the text to justify your inferences.

I heard lots of you using one of our key words, refugee.

They've had to, they've forced bit to be moved.

You might have also used this word displaced.

She keeps being forced to be displaced and the fact that it's in a rush and she's having to leave things that she cares about behind.

I heard some of you saying maybe this is even a manmade situation.

Alright, true or false then.

Hardi implies that the speaker's mother moved so many times out of choice, is that true or false? I want you to decide whether you think it's true, whether you think it's false and why you think what you think.

So pause the video, make your decision and press play when you're ready to find out the answer.

You should have said false there.

And one way of justifying that would've been to say the use of the words lost and rush imply that the mother was forced to leave by external forces rather than by her own choice.

Well done if you said something similar.

So let's consider what the impact of this displacement might have been on the mother or on anyone who is displaced.

We know that the speaker describes the mother's kitchen as being an ugly collection from various sets, cups bought in a rush on different occasions.

What do the objects suggest about the mother's life, do you think? What do the objects in this kitchen suggest about the mother's life? Pause the video, have a think, and press play when you've got some ideas.

Welcome back.

Some really great thinking going on there.

I heard lots of you saying things like maybe it suggests the mother never had the time to properly make the space her own.

If she's moved nine times every time this kitchen, this new kitchen, you know, it's something new she has to fill.

It also suggests that things were found randomly and in a rush, which really does kind of give further evidence that she's been.

She's having to move often very quickly without enough time to plan and really think about what she wants to take with her.

So we know the speaker describes the mother as owning rusty pots that she doesn't throw away.

Now rusty pots are pretty ineffective.

They're not the ideal pot that you'd want to be cooking in, but why do you think the mother might keep these rusty pots if they're not particularly useful? Why might that be? Pause video.

Have a think in pairs or by yourself and press play when you've got some ideas.

Again, some really fantastic ideas being banned around there.

I heard lots of you saying that maybe the mother is scared that she'll have to move again and she doesn't want to waste time or money buying something new.

Imagine if she bought all new equipment for her kitchen every time she moved, not knowing when the next time that she would be forced to move might be.

So let's check then.

Which of these images do you think best represents the mother's kitchen? The image in A, B, or C? Which one do you think best represents the mother's kitchen? A, B, or C? Pause the video, over to you and press play it when you think you've got the answer.

Yeah, really well done if you said C.

It's a very kind of lived in.

There's no real matching sets.

It's maybe not the kind of the neatest or tidiest kitchen, but you can see there is still love and care in that space.

So a kitchen is often called the heart of the home because it's where we gain sustenance.

It's where we kind of keep ourselves alive in the most basic form 'cause where we eat, but it's also a central gathering point for families and friends to meet and spend time in community.

What then do you think the description of the mother's kitchen suggests about the impact of being displaced? Okay, so thinking about the mother's kitchen and what's in there, if we use this kind of metaphorically, what might be saying about displacement? So let's think about what's the literal impact.

Okay, what's the literal impact of being displaced? What's the literal impact of trying to kind of create a home when you are being displaced and having to move so frequently? But let's think about the metaphorical impact as well.

Okay, what could the kitchen be a metaphor for? Thinking about that word sustenance and what happens if we don't get the sustenance that we need? So I think this would be a fantastic task to do as a discussion.

So if you've got a partner, please do work with them.

But don't worry if you're working by yourself.

You can just jot some ideas down or just think through this independently.

Alright, pause the video, give this a go and press play when you're ready to move on.

I heard some brilliant ideas there and really well done to those of you who are discussing in pairs.

It was great to hear you being so respectful, agreeing with each other where you needed to building on each other's ideas and where you disagreed at times.

Making sure that you challenged each other in really kind of polite and helpful ways.

So before we move on to our next section of today's lesson, I want us to take a moment to pause and reflect on the conversations that we've just been having.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna compare the conversations we had to this one that you can see on the screen, which is from two of our Oak pupils.

And I want you to think about where are the similarities, where do your ideas align, but where they don't align, where are the differences? And in those differences, are there any ideas that you hear there that you go, "Hmm, I didn't think about that, but I'm gonna use the idea to help develop my understanding of the poem." Let's have a look at what Laura and Izzy said then shall we? Laura said, "I think literally it suggests that the displacement means the mother never had a chance to settle somewhere and she never had the chance to create this warm, welcoming space for her family, for her friends, for her community." Izzy was thinking of the metaphorical meaning and she said, "I think metaphorically it suggests that displacement means that a refugee doesn't have a space that fulfils them.

They don't get the space that gives them purpose in life." Maybe they don't get the space where they feel like they belong.

So this is a really, really interesting poem.

I think this poem is a fantastic example of how poetry can be used to look at some real specific social things that happen in our society.

And we can see both the literal impact of being displaced, the fact that you don't have a chance to create a home.

And metaphorically what that means is you don't get the chance to ha have and create this safe space, this safe purpose in life.

Great ideas there from our Oak pupils.

Now it's time for you to pause the video and think for your similar, different, and are there any ideas that you're gonna take forward to help develop your understanding of this poem? Remember to press play when you're ready to continue.

Okay, welcome back.

We've done some really great thinking about the poem so far.

Now I want to share some context with you to see if that develops our understanding further.

So Hardi, the poet, was born in Iraqi Kurdistan, but she fled to Iran after Kurdistan was invaded.

So Hardi returned home but moved to the UK as a refugee in 1993 after the Gulf War.

Now, Hardi wrote this poem the aftermath of the war in Iraq in the early 2000s.

Her parents had decided to return home at this point to Kurdistan.

So I want you to think now, does knowing about Hardi's own personal context and what she'd experienced change your reaction to the poem? Pause the video, have a think about this.

I'm gonna throw this question over to you.

If you've got a partner, you can talk through this with them.

Otherwise, you could just think through this by yourself.

Does knowing Hardi's personal context change your reaction to the poem? What do you think? Pause the video.

Give this a go and press play when you think you've got some ideas.

Welcome back, it was fantastic to hear so many of you making actual references to the poem and say, "Ah, this bit of context reminds me of this part of the poem." That was fantastic to see.

Well done if that was you.

I heard lots of you saying similar things to what Izzy said, which was, I think it actually makes this poem more emotive.

It kind of makes it, I feel even more kind of powerful because we know this is the story of something that's happened to a real person.

We can think about how it might have affected them rather than this kind of fictional person on a page, this speaker on the page.

So true or false then.

Arguably, we can see that this poem reflects Hardi's own personal life.

Is that true or false? And why do you think that? Pause the video, give this a go, and press play when you're ready to move on.

Well done if you said that was true.

And you might have justified this by saying that Hardi herself was a refugee as well as her parents.

So over to you then for our final task in today's lesson.

Arguably Hardi's "My Mother's Kitchen" allows us to consider the concept of belonging through the eyes of a refugee.

So we're still focusing on this idea of belonging.

We know this is the big idea which connects all of the poems in our anthology.

But this one is very much seeing through the eyes of a refugee.

I want you to answer the following questions for me.

In the poem, the mother returns home to a rebuilt house.

What does that suggest about where home actually is? And two, what do you think the poem is trying to say in general about the concept of belonging and being a refugee? Alright, pause the video.

I want you to use all of the fantastic ideas that we've come up in today's discussions to really help you develop your responses.

I know you can write something really interesting for me now.

Alright, pause the video, good luck, and press play when you're ready to move on.

Welcome back, it was great to see you writing with such confidence there.

That really shows that you've really engaged in today's lesson and really understood what we've been discussing.

Fantastic to see.

A bonus well done to anyone who checked their spelling, punctuation, and grammar as well before they put their pen down.

Alright, before we finish today's lesson, we are gonna take a moment of reflection to think about what we have just been writing.

We're gonna do this by comparing our responses to some model examples from one of our Oak pupils.

As ever, whenever we are looking at model answers, we think, "Where are they similar?" Okay, what good things has the Oak pupil done that I have also done? Where are they different? What different ideas did the Oak pupil have that maybe I didn't think about? And can I use those different ideas to further develop my understanding of the text? So for question one, in the poem, the mother returns home to a rebuilt house.

What does that suggest about where home actually is? Izzy said, "I think it suggests that home is where you come from and your spiritual connection to a place rather than a literal house." So it sounds like the speaker's mother has had kind of, well at least eight different houses, but actually home is more than just the house you live in.

It's actually where you come from, where your culture, your heritage is from, where you have this connection to a place rather than just the bricks and mortar of the house that you are living in at the time.

And number two, what do you think the poem is saying in general about the concept of belonging and being a refugee? Izzy wrote, "I think it suggests that you can never truly feel as if you belong as a refugee because you are constantly in the process of being displaced and you can't set down roots." I wonder if your interpretation was the same as Izzy's.

Now's the time for you to pause the video.

Take a moment and reread your response.

If there are differences from Izzy's but you like some of Izzy's work, you can develop your answers further using some of Izzy's ideas.

Remember to press play when you're ready to continue.

Welcome back.

That's it then.

We have reached the end of today's lesson.

You've done a fantastic job today and it's been an absolute honour learning alongside you.

On the screen, you can see a summary of the learning that we've covered in today's lesson.

We're gonna quickly go through it together one more time so you can feel really confident you finish today's lesson.

So we've learned in the poem, Hardi speaks of her mother's possessions, the ones that she's collected and lost fleeing war.

Hardi's poem addresses belonging through the eyes of a refugee, forced to move many times for safety.

And arguably the poem implies that displacement means refugees never have a chance to belong anywhere.

Great work today.

And like I said, it's been a pleasure having you and I hope you've enjoyed today's lesson.

I really do hope to see you in one of our lessons again in the future.

Have a great day with the rest of your day, however you choose to spend it and see you all soon.

Bye bye.