KS4: English –‘Mrs Tiresias’
Mrs Tiresias is a poem from The World’s Wife selection written by Carol Ann Duffy and published in 1999. It uses a Greek myth to explore ideas about gender and sexual orientation. Downloads: KS4...
View ArticleKS3: English – Creating Effects in Poetry through the Use of Irony
This lesson uses the medium of a simple poem which makes ironic references to people’s differences from each other and their differences from norms or stereotypes. Students are invited to read the...
View ArticleKS2-PSHE-Young, Gifted and Gay
This lesson is about intersectionality and, although it doesn’t use the term it could be taught to pupils with a high vocabulary. It uses Labi Siffre’s Something Inside and Claude Mackay’s If We Must...
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