My Father Would Not Show Us

My Father Would Not Show Us (38-slide PowerPoint and 5 worksheets)

GCSE Poetry

My Father Would Not Show Us explores the Ingrid de Kok poem – as featured in the Edexcel Poetry Anthology - in detail. It includes the following activities:

• Guided Reading and understanding the poem
• Exploring the imagery used by de Kok
• Discussion of form and structure
• Analysing language and poetic techniques
• Learning how to write about the poem using P.E.T.E.R.
• Links to additional notes, a copy of the poem and a copy of the anthology

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