LGBT History Month: Poetry (KS4)

In LGBT History Month 2020, our focus was on poetry. We designed these lesson plans and resources to help you celebrate with your pupils. LGBT History Month was founded by Schools Out, who have been campaigning for LGBT inclusive education for 46 years. Adapt the lesson plan to best suit the needs of your class and to fit the amount of time you have available. Each lesson has a PowerPoint and resources that you can use to support your whole class teaching. Other suggested resources are noted in each lesson plan. This lesson focuses on the comparison of language in two poems: Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy and ‘what my mother (a poet) might say’ by Mary Jean Chan.

We also have similar lesson packs for:
• Reception and Key Stage 1
• Key Stage 2
• Key Stage 3
• Post-16
• Students with SEND/ASN/ALN
Each lesson plan has associated resources and a PowerPoint to accompany it.
Further LGBT inclusive lesson packs and assemblies can be found at www.stonewall.org.uk/TES