Carol Ann Duffy: The World’s Wife Student Book engages students in an enjoyable and detailed study of selected poems from Carol Ann Duffy’s 1999 collection, The World’s Wife. It has been designed as a study option for Year 11 Advanced English Module B: Critical Study of Literature.

In order to develop their own considered personal response to the selected poems, students will engage in a variety of activities that require them to respond to the poems in both critical and creative ways. This includes tasks that require students to compose in the imaginative, persuasive, and discursive styles of writing. By working their way through the different activities in this student book, students will improve their understanding of the ways Duffy gives voice to women who have historically been side-lined, ignored, or represented in overly simplistic and often highly sexist or derogatory ways throughout the history of Western culture and literature. Students will also learn how to support their judgements about the poems using detailed knowledge of language features and textual form. The poems covered in this student book include:

1. ‘Queen Herod’

2. ‘Pilate’s Wife’

3. ‘Delilah’

4. ‘Medusa’

5. ‘Eurydice’

6. ’Mrs Icarus’

7. ‘Little Red-Cap’

8. ‘Mrs Beast’

This student book is a highly valuable resource for students and teachers of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 11 Advanced Module B: Critical Study of Literature. It includes:

1. Engaging classroom activities to develop skills in analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of texts.

2. Texts regarded as quality literature.

3. Texts that represent a variety of cultural, social, and gender perspectives.

Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco

Format: PDF download, 150 pages

ISBN: 978 1 925771 96 1