Hello, my name is Ms. Grant.

I'm so glad you've decided to learn with me.

Today we're in the unit, myths, legends, and stories that inspire.

Today we are going to be looking at "The Lady of Shallot" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

A fantastic poem and we're gonna be doing some analysis of "The Lady of Shallot".

We're going to look at a particular technique that Alfred Lord Tennyson uses in enjambment.

This means that there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry.

So we're gonna get really, really good at identifying where enjambment is.

And then we're gonna push our thinking a little bit further.

We're gonna think, well, can we analyse specific examples of in enjambment? I cannot wait to hear all of your fantastic ideas.

I'm gonna be your support and guide as we work through today's lesson together.

Let's get started.

So by the end of today's lesson, you are going to be able to explore selected examples of enjambment in "The Lady of Shallot".

We are gonna really enjoy rereading this poem.

Then we're gonna think, well, what is enjambment? Where is it in this poem? And then crucially, what can we say about selected examples? And I'm really looking forward to the analysis section today.

It can often feel hard to analyse in enjambment because you're looking at a piece of punctuation or in fact a lack of punctuation.

But we're gonna get to grips with how you can do this really meaningfully when you are writing an analytical paragraph.

There are some keywords which are gonna help us unlock our learning today, and they're gonna be referenced throughout today's lesson.

If you would like to spend some more time with these words, pause the video now.

You can make a note of them or read through them.

I'm just gonna draw your attention to one of them, which is our keyword for today, for our outcome, for today, it's in enjambment and that is how you pronounce that word.

You might want to practise saying it's a little bit tricky to say in enjambment and this is when there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry.

But of course, we're gonna look at specific examples from "The Lady of Shallot" today.

As I say, if you'd like to spend a bit more time with the rest of these keywords, then pause the video now.

But otherwise they're gonna come up throughout today's lesson.

We'll go through them as and when our lesson outline for today, we're gonna first of all look at enjambment in "The Lady of Shallot" in terms of identifying it.

And then in our second learning cycle, we're going to look at what it means to analyse enjambment really well.

So let's start off with enjambment in "The Lady of Shallot" and identify some examples.

Now, Oak pupils discuss the differences between reading a poem and reading a novel.

And I would like you to pause the video and discuss what are some of the things that they might be saying? What are the differences between reading a poem and the novel? Discuss this question.

Pausing the video now, Welcome back, a really, really lovely discussion there showing off your brilliant knowledge of these two text types.

I think it's really interesting to compare text types because then you can start to think, well, why did this particular writer choose to write a novel rather than a poem? Why did this particular poet choose to write a poem rather than a novel? There are lots and lots of between them, but of course there are some real differences.

Let's have a look at what some of the Oak pupils say.

So Lucas said, well, poems are usually shorter than novels and not always, but absolutely they're often shorter than novels.

Sometimes you can look at a poem and you can see that it's just on one page.

There's often quite a lot of space around the poem, whereas when you're reading a novel, you've got a lot more text going all the way across the page.

So they're longer, often in length, but also in terms of what they look like on the page.

Laura says, poems often contain rhythm and rhyme in a way that novels don't.

And absolutely a poet is often thinking particularly about rhythm and how a poem sounds.

That's why I always think it's a fantastic idea to read poems aloud.

They are really, really meant to be heard, and that's always a way that I find it easier to start to make a connection with poems is by reading them aloud.

And of course, some poems do rhyme when they have words at the end of a line which sound similar to each other.

Not all poems, but some do in a way that novels don't.

And Sam, Sam says, poems are written in one or more standards.

Novels are usually written in paragraphs and absolutely that's right.

So there's a way of structuring a poem, a way of organising a poem, and we call that organisational, one of the ways we call that organisation is stanza.

Whereas when we've got grouped ideas in a novel, we call those paragraphs.

So some really, really lovely ideas.

They're very clear ideas from those Oak pupils reflecting loads of the clear ideas that you had as well.

Now I'd like you to discuss, we are talking here quite generally about poems and novels, but let's have a think about some specific poems or novels that you know, which show these differences.

So it's really nice always to attach these ideas of differences to a specific example.

So pause a video, enjoy this discussion where you're gonna be talking about lots of different poems and lots of different novels that you have read which show these differences.

Pause the video and discuss the question now.

Welcome back, what a lovely discussion.

I've got so many recommendations now for poems and novels that I have not yet read.

I hope that you do as well.

And of course, these poems are novels.

Lots of them exemplified some of the differences that we have been talking about in terms of poems and novels.

We've got a really clear idea that they look quite different.

Now, one important difference between poems and novels is how we name and explore a writer's use of punctuation.

Now of course, we can explore punctuation, a writer's use of punctuation in a novel and we can explore a writer's use of punctuation in a poem.

But the way we talk about it is slightly different.

So let's consider the second stanza of "The Lady of Shallot." We're gonna read through it.

So this is the opening of the poem when Alfred Lord Tennyson is still establishing the setting.

And we are learning a little bit more about where the Lady of Shallot lives in relation to Camelot.

So he writes in the second stanza, Willows whiten, aspens shiver, the sunbeams shower, break and quiver in the stream that runneth ever by the island in the river flowing down to Camelot, four grey walls and four grey towers overlook a space of flowers.

And in the silent isle imbowers, so confines The Lady of Shallot.

So a really lovely opening stanza there where we get a real vision of where the Lady of Shallot lives.

Now, when there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry, we call it enjambment.

When you heard me reading through, you might have seen that I did not pause when there was enjambment.

I didn't need to pause because Alfred Lord Tennyson said, don't pause.

He didn't put any punctuation there.

Now poets are used of enjambment affects the way we read a poem.

Instead of pausing, we keep reading steadily until the next piece of punctuation.

So I kept reading steadily when there was no punctuation and I paused only when Alfred Lord Tennyson was directing me to by using a piece of punctuation.

Punctuation is a pause.

So we use this word enjambment in poems only.

We don't talk about enjambment in a novel we can talk about a writer's use of punctuation in a novel, but we don't use this word enjambment, enjambment is for poetry only.

Now I'd like you to reread the second stanza, preferably aloud if you can.

And I'd like you to read steadily when there is enjambment and pause when there is punctuation.

Now it sounds a really easy activity, but I'm always really tempted to pause at the end of a line of poetry because there's this sort of space, so it's really, really tempting to pause.

So really try and read steadily when there's enjambment and pause only when there is punctuation.

Pause the video now and complete these two tasks.

Pause the video and read through the poem now.

Welcome back, really lovely to hear people reading through that second stanza and so carefully following the enjambment.

And then the pieces of punctuation which occur at the end of the lines and sometimes in the middle of a line.

So really, really paying attention to how Alfred Lord Tennyson wants us to read his poem.

Now we check for understanding before we read a bit more of this poem, paying close attention to the idea of enjambment and starting our discussion about why there might be enjambment in this poem.

So what is enjambment? Read through the four responses, A, B, C, and D and then select what you think is the correct response.

Pause a video and complete this check now Welcome back, well done if you selected C, when there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry.

So enjambment is really about punctuation and really it's about that lack of punctuation at the end of a line of poetry.

Now I would like you to reread the whole of "The Lady of Shallot" twice.

You'll find "The Lady of Shallot" on the worksheet.

Now, on your first reading, I would like you to pause at the end of every line, I want you to ignore the enjambment.

So really pause at the end of every single line and then on your second reading, follow the enjambment pausing only when there is punctuation.

And I would like you to circle each use of enjambment so you're sort of circling a space because of course enjambment is a lack of punctuation at the end of a line of poetry.

So you've got two ways to read it the first time you are ignoring the enjambment and the second time you are paying it close attention to it.

Now after you've read through both times and you've got your worksheet with your circled examples of enjambment, I would like you to discuss this question, why might it be important to follow a poet's use of punctuation? And of course your two read-throughs are really gonna support your discussion here.

So pause the video, enjoy reading through "The Lady of Shallot".

It's such a fun poem to read with its fantastic rhythm and brilliant story.

And then discuss the question after you've done your two read throughs.

Pause the video and complete these tasks now.

Welcome back, so lovely to hear people reading through that poem.

Never get tired of hearing it.

I think it's such a brilliant story that really, really carries you along.

And of course Alfred Lord Tennyson has written it really beautifully.

So it's lovely to return to and consider.

Well how has he written it? Today our focus is on enjambment and I'm really looking forward to hearing some of your ideas about this discussion question.

So let's move on to our feedback.

So here are some ideas that the Oak pupils had in answer to the question, why might it be important to follow poets use of punctuation? So Lucas says, the poem's story and ideas were harder to follow when I didn't follow the punctuation, Laura says the rhythm of the poem was destroyed when I didn't follow the punctuation.

And Sam says, without the punctuation, I had to read each line at the same pace, which made reading the poem less fun.

So some interesting ideas there from our Oak pupils.

Now I would like you to discuss which idea do you agree with most and why? Pause a video and complete this discussion task now.

Welcome back, lovely to hear those discussions there.

Obviously some of these ideas really chimed with how you felt as you were reading the poem when you were ignoring the enjambment and then when you read the second time and you followed that enjambment.

So these ideas about, it's actually quite hard to understand if you don't follow the punctuation.

Obviously the poet has written the poem in such a way that he wants, they want us to understand what is going on.

And so we need to use the punctuation to help us along with that story, particularly on that first read through.

And then I really like Laura's idea about rhythm, which connected with a lot of you as well.

The idea that poem is meant to be heard, there's some kind of musical quality to it.

And so if we don't follow the rhythm which is created partly by that punctuation, then that rhythm is truly, truly destroyed and we lose some of the poems, the poet's intentions as we're reading through that poem.

Okay, we're gonna move on to our second learning cycle now.

We consider, well if we know what enjambment is, if we know we can identify it well what does it actually mean to you? Analyse it.

So we're gonna move on to our second learning cycle now.

Analysing enjambment, we've got all those examples that we have identified in our first learning cycle.

So let's see what we can do with them in this second learning cycle.

Now you might want to analyse a poet's use of enjambment and I'm using that word might because you don't have to, just because you identify it doesn't mean you have to identify it, you have to analyse it.

But you might want to analyse it.

You might think, ah, there's something really interesting going on and I want to talk about this.

Now if you choose to do this, the most important thing is to be specific and selective, just like when you explore language.

So selective, one of our other key words.

So the idea that you would choose something with a real purpose.

So not just analysing all examples of enjambment or any random example of enjambment but selecting one where you think I can really see what Alfred Lord Tennyson is doing here.

And I want to talk about this.

Now I'd like you to consider Lucas and Laura's first attempts to explore enjambment.

So Lucas says, Tennyson uses a lot of enjambment in The Lady of Shallot, for example in stanza two and the rest of the poem two.

And Laura says, tenon uses in enjambment in stanza two, which gives the stanza sense of flow, fluidity and speed.

Now both of these pieces of analysis are vague, they're not entirely wrong.

Lucas has identified that Alfred Lord Tennyson does use a lot of enjambment, which is true.

And Laura's identified a slightly more specific example.

It's in stanza two.

And there is an idea that there's a sense of flow, fluidity and speed, but the analysis is vague.

They don't give specific examples of enjambment a quotation.

And yes, you should quote when you are analysing enjambment, I know it might seem strange because enjambment means there's no punctuation, but we're gonna have a look at what a good quotation might look like and they don't link enjambment to ideas in the poem, both of these ideas.

So Lucas's idea and Laura's idea, you could say that about a lot of poems. You could say there's a lot of enjambment in a different type of poem.

And you could say that the enjambment gives a sense of flow, fluidity, and speed.

What you have to do is really connect it to the particular poem that you are reading.

So they need to connect it to ideas in "The Lady of Shallot", let's have a look at a really good example of what it looks like and then we can start to think, well how could I craft an answer like that too? So I'd like you to consider Sam's exploration of enjambment.

And she writes in two Tennyson describes the setting.

He writes "In the stream that runneth ever by the island in the river flowing down to Camelot." The movement of the river is reflected by the enjambment and foreshadows the journey of the Lady of Shallot that the Lady of Shallot will make a later in the poem when she travels to Camelot in a boat.

The enjambment could also reflect the freedom of the river in contrast to the confinement of the tower the Lady of Shallot lives in.

Let's have a look at some of the technical bits of Sam's answer before we look at why it's really good.

So you can see in her quotation it's excellent to select quotation and that quotation indeed does have enjambment you can see those little slash signs.

Now those slash signs are what we use to say the the line of poetry has ended and I'm starting a new line.

So in the stream that runneth ever that's the end of the line.

So we put a slash and then we say by the island, by the river, that is the next line of poetry.

So that's a a way of showing off when you are writing your quotations to show that you really understand what it looks like to write a quotation in an academic way.

And then we've got lots of our key words.

So enjambment of course you've really got to grips with now no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry, we've got foreshadows.

So the idea there's a hint or indication that something bad is going to happen in the future.

And then we've got the Lady of Shallot.

So the Lady of Shallot is confined to the tower.

She cannot leave it as she is trapped in it in some way.

So let's have a look at sort of more holistically at why this is a really, really good exploration of enjambment.

So first of all, we've got reference to a specific example of enjambment including in quotation.

So Sam said it happens in stanza two and this is the quotation and put that quotation in.

So if you're talking about enjambment one, just as if you're talking about language, you must put a quotation in.

And the second thing that Sam has done is letting enjambment to specific ideas in the poem.

So it foreshadows the Lady of Shallot's journey that she'll make later in the poem.

So that couldn't be about any random poem, it has to be about "The Lady of Shallot." So she's really connected the enjambment, the flowing of the river to ideas in the poem.

And she's got an additional idea as well that the freedom of the river could contrast the confinement of the tower that the Lady of Shallot lives in.

So Sam has selected, she's been really selective in terms of which example of enjambment she wants to look at because she's got two ideas that she wants to talk about.

This doesn't mean that she now has to explore every other example of enjambment.

She has selected one that she thinks is really gonna help her understand and explore her ideas in the poem further.

So great example there.

Now check for understanding.

Before we use Sam's example to think right, I'm gonna analyse enjambment now a selected example of enjambment, what is true of analysis of enjambment? Read through the responses A, B, C, and D and then select which you think are correct.

Pause the video and complete this check now.

Welcome back and well done.

If you selected A, connect examples of enjambment to ideas in the poem, that is the correct example.

Quotations aren't necessary.

That is not true.

You must include a quotation when you are talking about enjambment, comment on every example of enjambment in the poem that is incorrect.

You must be selective, enjambment foreshadows later ideas in the poem.

This is incorrect.

It was true of the example that Sam selected earlier, but it is not true of every single example of enjambment.

So well done if you selected A as the correct response.

Now our final practise task for today, I would like you to select one example of enjambment from "The Lady of Shallot".

The poem is found on the worksheet.

You looked at it in learning cycle one, and indeed you have already identified lots of different examples of enjambment.

Remember you are just going to select one of those examples and I would like you to write an answer to this question.

Why does Tennyson enjamb these lines? So why is there no punctuation at the end of the lines that you have selected? These sentence starters could support you in stanza blank.

So whichever stanza that you are looking at, Tennyson uses enjambment when he writes.

And you will put your quotation in.

Perhaps this example of enjambment reflects.

The use of enjambment emphasises the idea that, so you've got some sentence artists there that you could use if you wish to.

They will really push you to select a specific example of enjambment and of course use a quotation, pause the video, really, really enjoy selecting your example of enjambment.

Remember there will be lots that you won't want to use, but you'll find one where you think I can see that there's a really important idea here that Tennyson is trying to get across with his example of enjambment.

Pause the video and complete this task now.

Welcome back, lovely to see people selecting different examples of enjambment and then really thinking hard as they think, well how am I going to analyse this? It's a really nice tool to have up your sleeve to think I can identify it, but I can also analyse it.

And you will sometimes want to analyse enjambment rather than a piece of language.

You'll be able to see a really interesting idea that you think is comes across through enjambment.

Let's do some feedback.

We're gonna look at an answer from Lucas and we're gonna think, well, how could we improve this? So Lucas focused on stanza four, which describes the island of Shallot.

So let's have a read through this stanza.

So stanza four says, the little aisle is all in railed with a rose fence and over trailed with roses by the Marge hailed the Shallot flit silken sailed skiing down to Camelot, a pearl Garland winds her head.

She leaveth on a velvet bed full royally apparel, "The Lady of Shallot".

So this is near the beginning of the poem.

We're still getting our introduction to "The Lady of Shallot" and where she lives.

Now Lucas has written in stanza four, Tennyson uses enjambment when he writes, the little isle is all in railed with a rose and over trailed with roses.

This creates a sense of speed making you read quicker to get to the rest of the poem and find out what happens to the Lady of Shallot.

Now you can see Lucas has used those slashes as we talked about earlier, in order to show that he's, that one line of poetry has ended and the next has begun.

But let's have a look at his actual analysis.

So I'd like you to discuss how could Lucas improve his response.

You can see that his final sentence is about the sense of speed created by the enjambment and that it makes you want to read the poem quickly and find out what happens.

Now, this type of analysis, it could apply to any poem.

You could say this was true of any example of enjambment that it speeds up the way you read it and that you want to find out more.

So we need to be much more specific about why in this particular example Alfred Lord Tennyson has used enjambment.

So I'd like you to discuss how could Lucas improve his response? Look at the stanza, consider why you think Tennyson has used enjambment here.

And then suggest some ideas about how Lucas could make his analysis more specific.

Pause the video and discuss the question now.

Welcome Back.

Thank you so much for offering so many different pieces of advice to Lucas so that he could improve his response.

Lots of people talking about, well, this moment in the poem is talking about the roses, how they're a little bit out of control and maybe that is reflected in the enjambment because the roses are running wherever they wish to.

Just like there is no punctuation, no pause at the end of the line of poetry, just like the roses are not pausing themselves.

So let's have a look at what Lucas did with those ideas and how he wrote them into his analytical paragraph.

So here is Lucas's improved response in Stanza four, Tennyson describes the island of Shallot.

He writes, "The little aisle is all in railed with a rose fence and over trailed with roses." The overwhelming number of roses is reflected by the enjambment.

They go on and on.

There is no escaping them.

Roses are beautiful flowers, but they also have sharp thorns.

So Tennyson develops the idea that the wild roses are confining the Lady of Shallot within the tower.

Now we can see here that we've got a specific example of enjambment including quotation.

Absolutely that is one of our success criteria.

And then we've got linking enjambment to specific ideas in the poem.

So we've got the idea that the roses are really beautiful, but they are part of the thing that is confining the Lady of Shallot to the tower, trapping her in the tower.

And obviously there's poem is a lot about entrapment and then escape and then freedom.

So really, really nice there to connect the ideas in the poem to a specific example of enjambment.

Now I'd like you to read through your own response and you can see the checklist at the bottom of the board.

I'd like you to ensure it meets the checklist.

So have you got a reference to a specific example of enjambment, including a quotation, and have you linked enjambment to specific ideas in the poem? Pause the video and ensure that you meet the checklist now.

Welcome back and well done for meeting that checklist.

So carefully, you have to analyse enjambment, not an easy thing to do.

Really, really carefully by selecting a specific example, including a quotation, and then thinking how does this connect to the ideas in the poem.

In conclusion, in summary, enjambment is when there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry, you can analyse a poet's use of enjambment.

When analysing a poet's use of enjambment, you should select a clear example and refer to it through quotation.

You should connect the use of enjambment to specific ideas in poem.

It has been such a pleasure to work through today's lesson with you and I look forward to seeing you next time.