"Education for Leisure" Carol Ann Duffy

Goals for today 
Completion "Stealing" 
Consideration of another poem by Carol Ann Duffy 
Exploration of some authorial choices made by the poet 
The poetic persona guiding question 
Visualising the poetic persona 


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EngelsUpper Secondary (Key Stage 4)GCSE

This lesson contains 25 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

Items in this lesson

Goals for today 
Completion "Stealing" 
Consideration of another poem by Carol Ann Duffy 
Exploration of some authorial choices made by the poet 
The poetic persona guiding question 
Visualising the poetic persona 


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Rikard
Robin 
Coen 
Anna 
Kate
Zoë
Elsje
 
Andrea
Emilia 
Aamu 
Kim 
Hugo 
Erik
Shamatmika
Ella 
Lena 
Mia 
Damien 
Cleo  
Megan 
Neysa
Dheeshitha
Alastrina 

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"Stealing" 
1. Put your image into your class notebook (add a tab 'Carol Ann Duffy Poetry' if you do not already have that tab). 
2. Add to your image quotes, the techniques seen in those quotes and how these quotes support your visual of the poetic persona. 
timer
1:00

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"Education for Leisure"
What ideas, associations,
concepts come to
mind from this title?

Slide 4 - Mind map

Reading to the punctuation 

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Slide 6 - Video

Consideration of a poem by Carol Ann Duffy 
Note expansion to find salient points 
Concepts in the poem and techniques 
The poetic persona 


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Which, according
to you is the "best" line
in this poem?

Slide 8 - Mind map

Answer these questions 
Who?
What? 
When? 
Why?

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Answer these questions 
  • Who? an unemployed young person who thinks he is a genius 
  • What? He kills the goldfish (maybe kills or tortures the budgie and the cat) 
  • When? Today, an ordinary day
  • Why? Because he wants to play God for a day 
  • Expand this kernel sentence: decides to take control 

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Summary sentence
On an ordinary day, a young unemployed person, who thinks he is a genius and wants to play God for a day, decides to take control of his life by killing a fly and a goldfish and wanting to hurt others.

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"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; / They kill us for their sport."

King Lear by William Shakespeare
Allusion 

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"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day."

Genesis 1:31
Allusion 

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Colloquial
Caesura 
enjambment 
Stanza
Alliteration 
Allusion
End-stopped lines
Anthropomorphism 
Symbolism
Repetition 
Free verse 
How is the topic of alienation and narcissism explored in this poem? 
Pathetic fallacy

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AWL

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Read Mrs Scholfield's GCSE
Read the note on this poem. 
Research each of the references to Shakespeare's works.
Note the allusions on your copy of the poem. 

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Your guiding question for "Mrs Scholfield's GCSE"

Slide 17 - Open question

Goals for today 
Feedback and feedforward summative 
Reflection on the unit If This Is a Man
Reading "In Mrs Tilscher's class" 

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WWW and EBI
  • Read your feedback. 
  • Look at the example parts of body paragraphs for criterion B. Collected from the internet. Consider what is the difference between each level criterion. Discuss in your group. 
  • Complete your feedforward form in Teams general feed. 
  • Complete your reflection feedback on this unit. 

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ups and downs 
heavy 
to stick to 
build up of 
giving off a ...tone
Put into words 
zoomed out perspective 
Picking apart this quote 
get across 
play with emotions 
big of an effort 

accumulation of 
exploration of this quote 
convey
to influence
extensive effort 
tension 
extreme effort 
arduous 
distanced/objective tone 
emotional tension 
pursue  

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"In Mrs Tilscher's Class" 

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Reading to the punctuation 

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On the sticky notes, write down in your groups something you see in the poem, something you think and something you wonder about. 
See, think, wonder 

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In Teams content library there is a document "10 questions for poetry analysis". Answer these questions for this poem in your class notebook. 
Using questions to guide your understanding

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