Up to two full lessons on Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover! from the Edexcel (9ET0) Poems of the Decade anthology. This resource provides a structured approach to the poem, helping students explore themes and language.
What’s Included?
- Starter: Students make predictions based upon the title of the poem.
- Context & Background: An exploration of the poem’s intertextual reference to Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold and its relevance to immigration and identity.
- A reading of the poem: A YouTube video is supplied with Daljit Nagra reading his poem.
- Poem Breakdown: A series of images which demonstrate the key imagery from the poem to aid students’ understanding of its literal meaning.
- Themes & Ideas: Discussion of key themes, including migration, British identity, and class divisions.
- Close Language Analysis: Examination of key poetic techniques and their effects through pre-annotated key sections of the poem. This didactic activity was designed as an example to the class of how to engage with poetic techniques and analyse them.
- A worksheet is provided on the final slide for students to unpick the layers of meaning in a quotation they select in a structured and guided way.
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