Covering the three accessible Duffy poems, ‘In Mrs Tilscher’s Class,’ ‘War Photographer’ and ’Shooting Stars,’ this set of resources aims to encourage students to develop skills of analysis and an ability to make a personal response to the short texts. Material takes the class through creative thinking, reasoning and enquiry tasks before leading into poetry analysis and essay structure activities.
| Pre reading why study poetry?(PPT) | Shooting Stars reading an image(PPT) |
| War Photographer(PPT) | War Photographer perspectives(PPT) |
| In Mrs Tilscher’s Class(PPT) | Writing about poems(PPT) |
| Level Two revision(PPT) | Revise the poems(PPT) |
| In Mrs Tilscher’s Class language chart(PDF) | In Mrs Tilscher’s Class Y chart(PDF) |
| In Mrs Tilscher’s Class senses chart(PDF) | In Mrs Tilscher’s Class hierarchy cards(PDF) |
| War Photographer language chart(PDF) | War Photographer research(PDF) |
| War Photgrapher statement cards(PDF) | Shooting Stars language chart(PDF) |
| Shooting Stars exploring the title(PDF) | Structuring poetry essay paragraphs(PDF) |
| Drawing comparisons chart(PDF) | Planning for the external exam(PDF) |