The World's Wife Mrs Darwin Intro to Female Representation in Literature Carol Ann Duffy

HER-STORY: Her voice from History! This is a mega introductory lesson to feminism, gender roles and gender stereotypes - encouring generation Z to be even more woke about how gender stereotypes are all around from birth! Explores Duffy’s Mrs Darwin too.

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.