Poetry from Other Cultures FULL Unit

This unit is a great introduction to poetry from English speaking countries around the world. It includes 21 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar essays, past papers, mark schemes, quizzes and opportunities for self-assessment. It is focused on poetry skills, as well as comparing themes between two poems. The final assessment asks the students to compare cultural divisions in Nothing’s Changed and Two Scavengers in a Truck.

Lesson 1: Poetic techniques
Lesson 2: Cultural context
Lesson 3: Limbo by Edward Kamu Brathwaite
Lesson 4: The Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
Lesson 5: Island Man by Grace Nichols
Lesson 6: Comparing Limbo and Night of the Scorpion
Lesson 7: Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker
Lesson 8: Nothing’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Lesson 9: Two Scavengers in a Truck by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lesson 10: Comparing Nothing’s Changed and Two Scavengers
Lesson 11: Assesment Feedback
Lesson 12: Vietnam War context
Lesson 13: What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov
Lesson 14: Vultures by Chinua Achebe
Lesson 15: Comparing Vultures and What Were They Like?
Lesson 16: Mid term quiz
Lesson 17: Search for my Tongue by Sujatta Bahat
Lesson 18: Presents from my Aunts by Moniza Alvi
Lesson 19: Comparing Presents and Search
Lesson 20: Half Caste by John Agard
Lesson 21: End of unit quiz