Poem: Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot
Painting (projected): Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo di Vinci
Music (optional): ‘Journey of the Magi’ on A Feast of Songs by Barry and Beth Hall: bit.ly/2Zyekbn
Explain that the students are camel drivers, leading reluctant camels on a bitterly cold journey. Ask them to travel, sometimes freezing, into a still image before continuing their journey. After a while, you call out ‘freeze’ and then read aloud lines 1-5 of the poem:
‘A cold coming we had of it …
The very dead of winter.’
Ask them to improvise in groups of three or four, as grumpy camel drivers in melting snow, trying to get a stubborn camel to stand up. Lead them into this with:
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