Love and relationships poetry continued
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Why this why now
In this unit, pupils build on their understanding of the 'Love and Relationships' anthology from its 'first study' unit. They now read the anthology's most complex poems, and start to make more nuanced and tentative comparisons across poems in the anthology. They also start to write more sophisticated comparative responses, which draw on their poetry knowledge and analytical comparative skills from across the 'appreciation of poetry' thread. By the end of this unit, pupils can craft nuanced and extended comparative poetry essays about the themes in the 'Love and Relationships' anthology.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode texts.
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts.
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of a poet.
- Pupils can recognise and comment on some structural devices such as rhyme, rhythm, stanza and line length.
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of text impact our interpretation of it.
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines.
- Pupils can use quotations judiciously to support their analysis.
- Pupils can identify similarities and differences between different types of conflict.
- Pupils know poems from the first unit in the cluster.
- Pupils can use comparative conjunctions and correlative conjunctions to compare texts.
Threads
Why this why now
In this unit, pupils build on their understanding of the 'Love and Relationships' anthology from its 'first study' unit. They now read the anthology's most complex poems, and start to make more nuanced and tentative comparisons across poems in the anthology. They also start to write more sophisticated comparative responses, which draw on their poetry knowledge and analytical comparative skills from across the 'appreciation of poetry' thread. By the end of this unit, pupils can craft nuanced and extended comparative poetry essays about the themes in the 'Love and Relationships' anthology.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode texts.
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts.
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of a poet.
- Pupils can recognise and comment on some structural devices such as rhyme, rhythm, stanza and line length.
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of text impact our interpretation of it.
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines.
- Pupils can use quotations judiciously to support their analysis.
- Pupils can identify similarities and differences between different types of conflict.
- Pupils know poems from the first unit in the cluster.
- Pupils can use comparative conjunctions and correlative conjunctions to compare texts.
Literature
Love and relationships poetry continued
In this unit, pupis read and analyse three poems from the 'Love and Relationships' anthology. Pupils complete two lessons about each poem: one on understanding and one on analysis. At the end of the unit, pupils analyse themes from the anthology and analyse the modern and Victorian poems as groups.
12 lessons in unit
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