Ballad of Charlotte Dymond Lessons - Narrative Poetry - Charles Causley

This resource includes approximately 3 lessons on the Ballad of Charlotte Dymond.

The lessons cover:

• understanding the poem, comprehension and making predictions
• an investigation style resource where students have to piece together what happened
• quotation quest task
• a link to a Cornwall article which discusses Dymond’s death.
• exploration of narrative structure
• storyboarding task to check understanding and discussion points around tension
• a poem quiz
• exploration of audience reaction to the poem
• a transformation lesson; transforming into a film poster (this has links to media) including looking at font use and analysing example posters

This resource also includes a copy of the poem, a copy of resources in the powerpoint and a 15 question quiz on the poem also.