1. Video casts available here: LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?
Year 13: A2 Level English
Carol Ann Duffy
Lesson Three
Sub
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form
Miss L. Hamilton
LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

2. LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?
Starter: Group Discussions
Consider each of these statements – how does each make you feel and what are your thoughts?
If women don’t wear such revealing clothes and watch how much they drink, most rapes could be avoided
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form
Miss L. Hamilton
LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

3. LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?
Starter: Group Discussions
Consider each of these statements – how does each make you feel and what are your thoughts?
Men should be paid more than an equivalent female colleague because they take less time off for maternity and child related issues
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form
Miss L. Hamilton
LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

4. LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?
Starter: Group Discussions
Consider each of these statements – how does each make you feel and what are your thoughts?
Women should be able to take male banter in the work place and not get so hysterical and emotional about it. Talking about women’s breasts is just man talk
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form
Miss L. Hamilton
LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

5. LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?
Starter: Group Discussions
Consider each of these statements – how does each make you feel and what are your thoughts?
Women breastfeeding in a public place is unnecessary. Why should people have to see it. It’s obscene. Dairy Cows are kept in a shed.
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form
Miss L. Hamilton
LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

6. LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?
Starter: Group Discussions
Consider each of these statements – how does each make you feel and what are your thoughts?
Women can’t earn equal wages as men, because most take time off their careers to be mothers. While they are out of the workplace, men continue to move up the ladder
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form
Miss L. Hamilton
LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

7. LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?
Starter: Group Discussions
Consider each of these statements – how does each make you feel and what are your thoughts?
Women sports stars should be paid less than men because more people want to watch the men. Also periods can affect performance.
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form
Miss L. Hamilton
LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

8. Ext: What is the aural style of the poem? What does it SOUND LIKE?
Introduction: Group Reading and Collating Task
Read the poem ‘Sub’ and underline the male words and the female words – what do you notice?
Summarise each stanza in one word...what are your words?
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form
Ext: What is the aural style of the poem? What does it SOUND LIKE?

9. Ext: Can you spot something no one else has spotted?
Introduction: group stanza analysis
Each stanza analysed for language and structure
Ext: Can you spot something no one else has spotted?
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form

10. How does Duffy present a feminist message in the poem Sub?
Group Task
Plan an essay to the following question:
How does Duffy present a feminist message in the poem Sub?
Ext: Start and finish with your most confident points and cover form, structure and language in your answer
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form

11. How does Duffy present a feminist message in the poem Sub?
Outstanding Progress:
Sophisticated, confident paragraph (embedding two quotations) explaining the effect of Duffy’s language/structural choices on the reader using terminology and addressing social context
In pairs:
Write your best paragraph
How does Duffy present a feminist message in the poem Sub?
Excellent Progress:
Clear, articulate (embedding two quotations) explaining the effect of Duffy’s language/structural choices on the reader using terminology and addressing social context
Extend your Bishop Justus 6th Form
Ext: Can you use sophisiticated vocabulary and use social context to develop your argument?