AQA English Literature Preparation for Poetry - Armitage and Duffy - 30 Lessons (KS3)

This complete scheme of learning covers a range of poems by Armitage and Duffy. Every lesson focuses on the assessment objectives. Explicit use of the assessment objectives (AO1, AO2, AO3) are referenced throughout most lessons. Assessment tasks are built in to the scheme. The SOL will analyse poems individually developing students’ ability to engage with the content of the poems and identify the way the speaker is feeling.

Students are actively taught to engage with the content first. An understanding of what is happening in the poem and the effects created. Students are then taught how these effects and ideas are presented through the use of form structure and language. Arbitrary feature spotting is avoided.

A range of creative writing tasks are built into the SOL to allow the development of key skills across the Language and Literature AQA specification. Home learning suggestions are provided throughout.

Lesson 1 - 5 : Give & Stealing
-understanding the poem
-sentence starters to support students with how to develop a successful response
-success criteria
-annotating
-exam style questions embedded
-writing own poetry based on homelessness

Lessons 6 - 10: Clown Punk & Medusa
- questions to support independent responses
-focus on AO2 - how to analyse language
-assessment lesson
-exam style questions embedded
-group analysis of each stanza
- creative writing with model responses embedded

Lessons 11 - 16: Out of the Blue & About His Person
-assessment feedback lesson
- contextual focus (9/11)
-creative writing to engage with the content and develop a personal response
-developing ideas around inference and connotations


Lessons 17 - 20: Hitcher & Valentine
-understanding the poem
-exam style questions embedded
-prompt questions to promote independent learning
-supporting sentence starters
-annotation of images
-creative writing

Lessons 21- 25: I am Very Bothered & Quickdraw & The Shout
-questions to support annotation of stanzas (worksheet style)
-model responses to quotations
-exam style questions embedded
-assessment question set
-lesson for individual student feedback

Lessons 26- 30: Education for Leisure & Talent
-students to create presentations using skills developed over the unit
-presentations to take place
-students to complete activities to be set by others in the group
-creative writing describing an image (Language paper 1 question 5)
-creative writing - responding to language paper 2 question 5
-all creative writing links to ideas studied in both poems