Grade 9 Tissue Lesson (With Comparison to Ozymandias) Power and Conflict AQA

This lesson covers key content for the poem, carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes.

Quotes include:

“well-used books,
the back of the Koran”
“Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines”
“paper that lets the light shine through”

Works towards:
How does Dharker explore the fragility of human life in this poem? Compare her approach to that of another poet.