Simon Armitage: writing your world
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils understanding of poetry from the unit 'Singe poet study: Maya Angelou'. In that unit, pupils started to think more deeply about how and why poets write about their worlds. In this unit, pupils gain a richer understanding of poetry by hearing directly from one of the most prominent poets in the world, Simon Armitage. They start to recognise where poems come from, and how they have been crafted for effect. This prepares pupils for the first GCSE Poetry Anthology units, where pupils start to develop personal interpretations about a wider range of poetry.
Prior knowledge requirements
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils understanding of poetry from the unit 'Singe poet study: Maya Angelou'. In that unit, pupils started to think more deeply about how and why poets write about their worlds. In this unit, pupils gain a richer understanding of poetry by hearing directly from one of the most prominent poets in the world, Simon Armitage. They start to recognise where poems come from, and how they have been crafted for effect. This prepares pupils for the first GCSE Poetry Anthology units, where pupils start to develop personal interpretations about a wider range of poetry.
Prior knowledge requirements
Simon Armitage: writing your world
In this unit, pupils learn more about how to read and write poetry by listening to words of wisdom from the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage. They read a range of his poems about his life and the wider world, and start to write increasingly poetically in response to them.
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