'Power and Conflict'
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of war poetry and comparison from 'Comparing poetry from the First World War'. In this unit, pupils look at conflict from a greater range of perspectives, and look at poetry from a wider range of wars. They complete more sustained and nuanced comparisons, and generate their own comparative points. They also develop and hone their expertise in writing comparative paragraphs and essays. This unit prepares pupils for the anthology's 'continued study' unit where they will look at more complex poems and make nuanced comparisons across all poems.
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 an poet.
- Pupils can recognise and comment on some structural devices of poetry such as rhyme, rhythm, stanza and line length.
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of texts impacts our interpretation of them.
- Pupils can write clear topic sentences.
- Pupils can select evidence from a text to support their analysis.
- Pupils can structure their arguments using single paragraph outlines.
- Pupils have an understanding that power corrupts.
- Pupils can use comparative conjunctions and correlative conjunctions to compare texts.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of war poetry and comparison from 'Comparing poetry from the First World War'. In this unit, pupils look at conflict from a greater range of perspectives, and look at poetry from a wider range of wars. They complete more sustained and nuanced comparisons, and generate their own comparative points. They also develop and hone their expertise in writing comparative paragraphs and essays. This unit prepares pupils for the anthology's 'continued study' unit where they will look at more complex poems and make nuanced comparisons across all poems.
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 an poet.
- Pupils can recognise and comment on some structural devices of poetry such as rhyme, rhythm, stanza and line length.
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of texts impacts our interpretation of them.
- Pupils can write clear topic sentences.
- Pupils can select evidence from a text to support their analysis.
- Pupils can structure their arguments using single paragraph outlines.
- Pupils have an understanding that power corrupts.
- Pupils can use comparative conjunctions and correlative conjunctions to compare texts.
Literature
'Power and Conflict'
In this unit, pupis explore 12 of the 15 poems from the 'Power and Conflict' anthology. Pupils complete two lessons about each poem: one on understanding and one on analysis. Pupils study the poems in three groups, and they pause after each group to compare how those poems present common themes.
33 lessons in unit
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