'Belonging'
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' understanding of poetry and comparison from 'Single poet study: Maya Angelou' and 'Comparing poetry from the First World War'. With Maya Angelou, pupils saw poetry used to present relationships, but in this unit they study and compare more complex ideas about relationships. They also build on their knowledge of conflict from 'Comparing poetry from the First World War' by reading a wider range of war poetry. This unit prepares pupils for the anthology's 'continued study' unit where they will look at more complex poems and make nuanced comparisons across 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 a 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 builds on pupils' understanding of poetry and comparison from 'Single poet study: Maya Angelou' and 'Comparing poetry from the First World War'. With Maya Angelou, pupils saw poetry used to present relationships, but in this unit they study and compare more complex ideas about relationships. They also build on their knowledge of conflict from 'Comparing poetry from the First World War' by reading a wider range of war poetry. This unit prepares pupils for the anthology's 'continued study' unit where they will look at more complex poems and make nuanced comparisons across 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 a 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
'Belonging'
In this unit, pupis explore 12 of the 15 poems from the 'Belonging' anthology. Pupils complete two lessons on each poem: one on understanding and one on analysis. Pupils study the poems in a thematically linked order so they can complete comparative and thematic lessons at key points in the unit.
32 lessons in unit
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