Checking Out Me History by John Agard. Power and Conflict. Created by AQA Examiner/Teacher

This is an outstanding lesson that I’ve created from my 15 years of being a classroom teacher/Director of English and six years as an AQA examiner.

An engaging, high quality powerpoint with a range of fun activities and exercises to stretch and challenge the more able, and are differentiated.

This resource contains:

• A detailed powerpoint with questions to really break down every aspect and line of the poem including the impact of precise language and structural choices to challenge the more able students to Grade 9 and support less able students to achieve.
• Exercise to analyse contextual factors of the poem, life in the trenches and impact on the soldiers.
• Analysis of power within the poem.
• Individual and group exercises for students.
• Research work on Agard
• Exercises comparing the poem to the other poems in the anthology which is incredibly beneficial for the exam.
• Model answers for students and how best to approach and answer an exam question.

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