Cloud Busting: Puffin Poetry

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Davey’s capacity to perceive the world in a multi-sensory way is one of the talents he passes to Sam. For example, favourite food becomes “…daydreams in your mouth…Or wishes down your throat…” Discuss everyday items and experiences, or use photos of familiar places, and help children develop their use of metaphor by exploring senses and linking one positive idea with another: a delicious taste is wonderful, as are star beams, so favourite food could become “star beams on your tongue”. You can’t taste a star beam; you see it – the effect is achieved by mixing sensory experiences, and it takes a great deal of imagination. As Sam finds, it’s hard at first, but improves with exercise. Connecting the curriculum The person who is referred to as I (you can guess that they are likely to be the “main character” or the person we follow the perspective of throughout the story because of the use of first-person pronouns). In Australia, "Cloudbusting" narrowly missed the Kent Music Report top 100 singles chart in January 1986. [24] Certifications [ edit ] Region I wonder how it feels to be so full of light, so full of joy, and yet so small when compared to the sky. This chapter not only exemplifies Haiku; it even explains the five – seven –fFive syllable pattern, “a pure, paced rhythm…….so let your mind soar.” Sam’s Haiku for Davey is powerful partly because it is so simple: compacted, concentrated emotion. First allow children to talk about people, pets or experiences that they love or have loved; support their development of content, then help with vocabulary choices that will meet the syllable requirement of a Haiku.

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discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader During the six months before Davey left, it was almost as if Sam and Davey had switched lives. Shifted perspectives. Walking in each other’s shoes, but doomed to walk on for the rest of eternity. The different people involved in bullying, and how they see the situation from their own perspective. The Angel of Nitshill Road by Anne Fine – another story of bullying and difference, but this time with a savvy saviour… McNulty, Bernadette (27 July 2014). "Kate Bush's Cloudbusting video: 7 minutes of heaven". The Telegraph . Retrieved 4 February 2019.

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Many scenes in the book lend themselves to exploration through dramatic reconstruction, or even just freeze-framing. Try a conscience corridor/ decision alley to examine Sam’s decision not to chase after Davey in Chapter 11: The novel won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Silver Award [1] and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. [2] Plot [ edit ] In conclusion… Cloud Busting describes a life-changing experience, and could be a life-changing book. Questions that will be worthy of deeper discussion may include: At the start of the book Sam is in the present time, writing the poem after the bad thing that happened. After that the poem explains what happened to Davey and Sam. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-09-14 11:09:23 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40235021 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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Terry Gilliam: “Kate called me to direct the video and I said, ‘No, how about Julian (Doyle)?’ They had a great time shooting, but somewhere in the editing a conflict developed and I became the mediator. Kate knows exactly what she’s doing, she knows what she wants. She’s the sweetest person on the planet but she’s absolute steel inside!” Taking inspiration from the 1973 Peter Reich memoir A Book of Dreams, [5] which Bush read and found deeply moving, [6] the song is about the very close relationship between psychiatrist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and his young son, Peter, told from the point of view of the mature Peter. It describes the boy's memories of his life with Reich on their family farm, called Orgonon, where the two spent time "cloudbusting", a rain-making process which involved using a machine designed and built by Reich – a machine called a cloudbuster – to point at the sky. The lyrics further describes the elder Reich's abrupt arrest and imprisonment, the pain of loss the young Peter felt, and his helplessness at being unable to protect his father. You could say that the real antagonists are the students of the school. This story’s foundations are built on the fact that social status is important and that you can’t just be liked – you have to be liked for something –people only like you if you are of use to them, and will feel threatened if you try to introduce “weird” or new ideas. Ideology has become very important. Davey’s capacity to perceive the world in a multi-sensory way is one of the talents he passes to Sam. For example, favourite food becomes “…daydreams in your mouth…Or wishes down your throat…” Discuss everyday items and experiences, or use photos of familiar places, and help children develop their use of metaphor by exploring senses and linking one positive idea with another: a delicious taste is wonderful, as are star beams, so favourite food could become “star beams on your tongue”. You can’t taste a star beam; you see it – the effect is achieved by mixing sensory experiences, and it takes a great deal of imagination. As Sam finds, it’s hard at first, but improves with exercise. Thomson, Graeme (26 August 2014). " "This girl is very, very tough..." The untold story of Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love". Uncut . Retrieved 19 July 2019.

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Sam makes an almost lethal mistake, and then regrets it. What does he learn? Why are mistakes important?

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The illustrations at the start of each chapter are simple, but you can see that they really reflect what goes on in the corresponding chapter. Great foreshadowing in those. continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks Davey’s life is full of excitement and happiness: the way he views life is very different to the way everyone else does, but it makes his school life a much more enjoyable experience.Sam changes dramatically through the book. Is it for the better? He used to fit in; now he doesn’t: what does he have instead? Consider how people change; how might you change, in the next few years? Prepare children for the key themes of the story by discussing their ideas of belonging and times when they have felt the need to conform. Warm thinking up with open questions such as, “Is it important to fit in?” and “Do we all see things in the same way?” Have children think about other stories from books, television and film where “difference” defines a character and marks them out for bullying, for greatness, or maybe both. One of the things I liked about this book was how predictable yet unpredictable the storyline is. Sure, it can be confusing, but it makes the way this book was written so unique compared to other books with those cliché plots where you can guess everything that is going to happen easily.

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Having delved into his conscience, recreate the scene with Sam, Alex and Davey in simple freeze-frame, and have children suggest the thoughts going through each character’s mind. Take suggestions, too, on body language for each boy at that dreadful moment.Kate Bush (excerpt from a Kate Bush Club newsletter, 1985): “I was inspired by a book that I first found on a shelf nearly nine years ago. It was just calling me from the shelf, and when I read it I was very moved by the magic of it. It’s about a special relationship between a young son and his father. The book was written from a child’s point of view. His father is everything to him; he is the magic in his life, and he teaches him everything, teaching him to be open-minded and not to build up barriers... But there’s nothing he can do about his father being taken away, he is completely helpless. But it’s very much more to do with how the son does begin to cope with the whole loneliness and pain of being without his father. It is the magic moments of a relationship through a child's eyes, but told by a sad adult.” The Irish Charts - All there is to know > Search results for 'Cloudbusting' ". Fireball Media . Retrieved 17 January 2016.