Walking Away - Cecil Day-Lewis - Written analysis lesson based on GCSE style question

Initially taught to Year 8 students but can be adapted to suit different year groups.

Aims:
To explore how the theme of growing up presented in the poem ‘Walking Away’.
Understand the themes, tone and narrative voice in the poem.
Identify evidence to explain a poem’s theme and writer’s message.
Complete an analytical paragraph about the poem.

CONTENT: Read poem, discussion about the meaning of parenting / growing up, demonstrate to reconnect task that links to students’ prior learning.

SKILLS: Inference (I); Evidence (E); Analysis of quotation (AQ), Writer’s Message (WM)

Use second half of class for Ss independently write an assessed paragraph based on the theme of growing up.

Ss highlight and label flash codes as a consolidate