The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy Student Book engages students in an enjoyable and detailed study of the prescribed poems for the NSW Stage 6 Standard English Focus Area: Close Study of Literature. It has been designed to develop students’ detailed and informed knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of Duffy’s poetry as a rich, complex, and substantial literary study.
The student book supports close study of the seven prescribed poems:
To develop their own considered personal response to Duffy’s poetry, students engage in a wide range of activities that invite them to respond to the poems in both critical and creative ways. This includes tasks that require students to compose in imaginative, persuasive, reflective, and discursive styles of writing. By working through the activities in this student book, students will strengthen their understanding of Duffy’s distinctive poetic voices, key ideas, use of language, form and structure, and representation of people, ideas, settings and situations. Students will also learn how to support their judgements using detailed textual evidence, close analysis, and precise metalanguage.
This student book is a highly valuable resource for students and teachers. It includes:
Engaging classroom activities to develop skills in close reading, analysis, interpretation and evaluation.
A clear focus on poetry as literature, with explicit guidance on voice, form, structure, imagery, symbolism, allusion and intertextuality.
Tasks that build confident, evidence-based personal and critical responses.
Opportunities for creative, reflective, persuasive and discursive composition linked directly to the poems’ ideas, voices and distinctive qualities.
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Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 134 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 38 7
The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy Student Book engages students in an enjoyable and detailed study of the prescribed poems for the NSW Stage 6 Standard English Focus Area: Close Study of Literature. It has been designed to develop students’ detailed and informed knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of Duffy’s poetry as a rich, complex, and substantial literary study.
The student book supports close study of the seven prescribed poems:
To develop their own considered personal response to Duffy’s poetry, students engage in a wide range of activities that invite them to respond to the poems in both critical and creative ways. This includes tasks that require students to compose in imaginative, persuasive, reflective, and discursive styles of writing. By working through the activities in this student book, students will strengthen their understanding of Duffy’s distinctive poetic voices, key ideas, use of language, form and structure, and representation of people, ideas, settings and situations. Students will also learn how to support their judgements using detailed textual evidence, close analysis, and precise metalanguage.
This student book is a highly valuable resource for students and teachers. It includes:
Engaging classroom activities to develop skills in close reading, analysis, interpretation and evaluation.
A clear focus on poetry as literature, with explicit guidance on voice, form, structure, imagery, symbolism, allusion and intertextuality.
Tasks that build confident, evidence-based personal and critical responses.
Opportunities for creative, reflective, persuasive and discursive composition linked directly to the poems’ ideas, voices and distinctive qualities.
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 134 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 38 7
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