Poetry SOW - Voices Across the Century (Part A)

A fully-resourced poetry SOW appropriate for Year 8 / 9 with good links to the KS4 Power and Conflict anthology.

Five poets are included:

• Rabindranath Tagore
• Usha Kishore
• Debjani Chatterjee
• Grace Nichols
• Sujata Bhatt

A great way to introduce the contribution of global majority (British) poets and communities have contributed to the shaping of poetry and British society.

Lessons focus on approaching and exploring different aspects of the poems, and each poetry lesson is accompanied by a lesson focusing on the autobiographical, cultural, social or historical context of the poet / poem.

The poems follow a sense of chronology from the early 20th century, WW1, Windrush, post-war migration and modern British identity into the latter part of the 20th century and early 21st century.

All poems are included in an anthology document and a skeleton SOW is included to be adapted to your departmental pro-forma, or added to as you teach within your specific context.

Full powerpoints included, essay questions, structured planning lessons, further reading recommendations and some suggested homework tasks. The SOW covers 18 lessons.

This is Part A of a two-half term SOW. Part B focuses on using a further set of poems as a stimuli for transactional writing.