Duffy's Mrs Midas The World's Wife and Comparing Skill

This is a complete lesson of 1-3 hours worth exploring Mrs Midas and introducing the comparing summary skill from lang paper 2 q2, getting ready for q4.

This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress.
All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions. Knowledge organiser is available for this mini SOW too.