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At least 22 Lessons - KS3 Unit of work introducing students to different forms of poetry and poetic techniques.

Poems include: The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, Woodpecker by John Agard, Woodpecker by Ted Hughes, Metaphors by Sylvia Plath, Mirror by Sylvia Plath, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth, A range of Haikus, The Ballad of Hillsborough by Simon Rae, Caged Bird By Maya Angelou, Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi, The Tyger By William Blake, “Hope” is the thing with feathers By Emily Dickinson , The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe, Island Man By Grace Nichols, Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage, La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats, Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes, the song Fast Car and the rap Welcome to Dystopia.

Resources include:

• 2 Assessment & Assessment Prep lessons (1 reading & 1 writing.)
• A range of activities for each poem
• Repeat questions for each lesson
• A range of creative writing activities and tasks.
• A range of worksheets on context and some of the poems.
• Discussion tasks
• Key context lessons on specific poems such as out of the blue and the ballad of Hillsborough
• A variety of analytical questions and creative writing activities.
• Reflection/plenary activity for each lesson
• Reading assessment focused on the poem Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi
• Writing assessment using an article on Harambe and requiring students to write a newspaper article on an incident at the zoo.
• A lesson examining poetry in music using the song Fast Car
• Two lessons on rap and its links to poetry using Akala’s Welcome to Dystopia