Teaching others: The World's Wife

Teaching presentation of ~15 min each.

Specific poems in this order (the person whose name is there is responsible for the presentation but they can ask one other person to help them in this (but not do their work for them)).

Thetis (Pradny)

Queen Herod (Steven)

Pilates' Wife (Enes)

Mrs Sisyphus (Sithil)

    Bonus: Mrs Darwin

Mrs Aesop (Enes)

Queen Kong (Pradny)

Mrs Beast (Neel)

Medusa (Sithil)

Circe (Anastasia)

Mrs Lazarus (Frederik)

Pygmalion's Bride (Timo)

    Bonus: Mrs Icarus

Salome (Timo)

Penelope (Steven)

Delilah (Anastasia)

Frau Freud (Frederik)

Look at it from (at least) two viewpoints: 

* as if this were your chosen IO text (Global Issue! + reference to the same global issue in other poems by Carol Ann Duffy)

* what kind of non-lit text would treat the same topic (that could be used for Paper 1 practice)

* what kind of Body of Work (non-literary) could be connected to this via the Global Issue

NB! In addition to teaching, create a blog post with the most salient points and any suitable links.

Duffy's school- and education-related poems

See also my 11 January blog post.
Task: Put the poems in the order of how a child progresses through the educational system.

Add publication data to each and every poem.

What does each poem tell the reader about school and / or the educational system?

What stylistic and literary features does it use, and to what effect?

What kind of global issue can you connect each to?

Possible Paper 2 themes:

If education is a relative term, how do two of the literary works you have studied  explore this idea?
How does a particular term or concept, such as personal growth, change in the way it is represented in to literary texts you have studied?

War (work in progress)

War photographer by Carol Ann Duffy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWQRJcCeJk

Task (should have been done in class): 1) summarise each stanza in 1 sentence, 2) mark the places where the tome shifts in the poem, and add at least one adjective to describe the tone in each fragment, 3) What does the poem say about war? 4) How would you word a global issue on the basis of this? 5) mark at least 5 literary devices you would use to inform about the GI. 6) See what of the following analysis helps you to add to your annotation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsp82hv/revision/1#:~:text

History of war in 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hsDn2kNriI

The deadliest wars in the 21st centuries: 

https://www.britannica.com/list/8-deadliest-wars-of-the-21st-century

Propaganda techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques

This is the enemy (collection of war posters, you have to be on Pinterest to see this):
https://in.pinterest.com/jacekjedut/this-is-the-enemy/

Shooting stars by Carol Ann Duffy: https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/shooting-stars/

Thursday, January 27 - International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust 2022

The Holocaust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Some well-known Holocaust poetry: https://interestingliterature.com/2019/12/famous-holocaust-poems/

Photographs: https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/media_list.php?MediaType=PH

Soviet war crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes

Carol Ann Duffy

One of our texts: poems by Carol Ann Duffy (PLA, 20th-21st century, Europe)

Poet Laureate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_laureate

Duffy as a Poet Laureate: https://www.ft.com/content/89f0c588-367b-11de-af40-00144feabdc0

The Twelve Days of Christmas (once again, see also the post on allusion):

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-12-days-of-christmas-2009-poet-435367

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/06/poet-laureate-duffy-christmas-poem

See also Cockermouth and Workington below.

Traditional song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyEyMjdD2uk

Analysis of the traditional song: https://literarydevices.net/the-twelve-days-of-christmas/

The Christmas Truce:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/multimedia/poetry-spoken-word/101-carol-ann-duffy-the-christmas-truce
Illustrated version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOhLPzYDUc
How do the illustrations add to the poem / interact with the poem, and what's the effect on the reader?
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-LmXKkH_E
History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlPNWDvk-c (11:12)
Analysis: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/12/truc-d27.html

Politics, Duffy's first poem as official Poet Laureate:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jun/12/politics-carol-ann-duffy-poem
(what politics does to a person when they enter politics)

https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2016/04/20/politics/
Ecopolitics: get this online: Reading Carol Ann Duffy's “Politics” - UKM e-Journal System (pdf)

Two more short poems (kind of political)

Campaign: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/10/campaign-a-poem-by-carol-ann-duffy-exclusively-for-the-guardian

Carol Ann Duffy wrote this poem in response to the 2017 general election result, a result that took almost everyone by surprise, not least Theresa May, the subject of Duffy"s piece. The poem is short and comprised mostly of metaphors.

Metaphor is the comparison of two concepts through language, often done by using the verb 'to be'.  Metaphor is often seen as a literary device used by poets. Metaphors, however, can be found in every day speech and images.
Analysis (kind of): https://www.thebookseller.com/news/carol-ann-duffy-pens-scathing-post-election-poem-567886
Theresa May: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_through_fields_of_wheat

https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2017/06/10/news/carol-ann-duffy-savaged-theresa-may-in-this-election-themed-poem-1051556/

A possible BOW: 

Photos of flooded Venice: https://mymodernmet.com/natalia-elena-massi-venice-flood/

To go with Carol Ann Duffy's "flinty alliterative honouring of the northern towns hit by floods, "Cockermouth and Workington"" (cited from https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/football-floods-and-royal-weddings-carol-ann-duffy-makes-poetry-heard-in-national-life-2366400.html))

Cockermouth and Workington:

On Duffy's poetry as being political:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/football-floods-and-royal-weddings-carol-ann-duffy-makes-poetry-heard-in-national-life-2366400.html

Duffy's style: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/carol-ann-duffy
Fricatives: http://englishtutorhome2.blogspot.com/2013/04/sounds-in-poetry-sibilant-plosive.html

History vs herstory and Duffy

Elements of poetry: https://learn.lexiconic.net/elementsofpoetry.htm

Poetry analysis fact sheet: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/analysis.html

Herstory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herstory

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Moving-Beyond-History-and-by-Burl-Hall-121219-896.html

Carol Ann Duffy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ann_Duffy

Poet Laureate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_laureate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom

Feminist literary criticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_literary_criticism

http://writersinspire.org/content/feminist-approaches-literature

Standing Female Nude (includes War photographer and Education for Leisure)

https://www.preceden.com/timelines/288535-carol-ann-duffy-and-standing-female-nude

https://emilyspoetryblog.com/2013/10/16/education-for-leisure-by-carol-ann-duffy/

The World's Wife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Wife

A review: http://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/sep/25/costabookaward.features

Several poem analyses here (don't go until we've dealt with the poems):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/search?q=carol+ann+duffy&page=1

Feminine Gospels includes Beautiful: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-beautiful-annotated

History: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-history-annotated

The Diet: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-the-diet-annotated

Top poems to read: 

https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/

An ode to meters:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3713557/Poet-laureate-publishes-verse-praising-old-fashioned-devices-removed-British-homes-paid-undisclosed-fee-energy-company.html

An interview: 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/27/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate-books-interview

Sincerity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWAkkwD-sM

Royal wedding poem: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2018/may/18/carol-anne-duffys-royal-wedding-poem-long-walk

Keep it in the ground: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/27/keep-it-in-the-ground-a-poem-by-carol-ann-duffy

School- and education-related poems

Document of the same name on Tera with most of them in it:)
Annotate the following poems (sources give you poems online plus some analysis). Do not go to online analyses until you have done your own annotation.

Also think of the following: What do you identify as the predominant aspects of this text? Consider aspects that are more abstract than textual / literary features, e.g. tensions, conflicts, ironies, ideas, etc.

* In Mrs Tilscher’s class

https://insideenglishteaching.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/poetry-carol-anne-duffy/

http://www.whec.edin.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-mrs-tilschers-class-annotated-1.pdf
* Head of English: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciftX9KbtKU
* The Good Teachers
https://carolannduffypoems.tumblr.com/post/38792533471/the-good-teachers
https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/the-good-teachers
* Death of a Teacher
https://poetryshark.wordpress.com/tag/carol-ann-duffy/
https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/death-of-a-teacher
https://prezi.com/p/bru6ej31jugf/death-of-a-teacher-by-carol-ann-duffy/
* Education for Leisure
https://emilyspoetryblog.com/2013/10/16/education-for-leisure-by-carol-ann-duffy/
https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-education-for-leisure-annotated
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/sep/04/gcses.english

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052970/Why-ban-Shakespeare-Poet-strikes-knife-verse-dropped-GCSE.html
* Comprehensive
https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-comprehensive-annotated
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/poetry/duffy.htm#comprehensive
* Dark School
http://www.tusitala.org.uk/carol-ann-duffy-dark-school/
https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/the-dark-school
Task: Read and annotate (individually, or in pairs or in small groups), and create a blog post on your chosen poem, adding links to useful sources, and a plan on the most insightful things to talk about when analysing it, plus what global issue(s) you could connect this to. It would be especially lovely if you could think of a non-lit BOW ...

Some related non-lit to widen your horizons: 

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/10-barriers-to-education-around-the-world-2/

https://www.adsoftheworld.com/taxonomy/industry/education

Malala Fund: https://malala.org/girls-education?sc=header

Malala's diary: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29565738

This diary will be a BOW we'll look into together.

A little bit of fun: https://magmapoetry.com/which-poem-would-you-ban-from-the-school-syllabus/

Allusion

Quoting a dictionary: allusion /əˈluːʒ(ə)n/ (noun) = an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. e.g. "an allusion to Shakespeare"

Allusion in poetry: https://archive.naplesnews.com/entertainment/poetry-and-allusion-ep-402865374-334647851.html/

Task: Research the allusions in Carol Ann Duffy's allusion-heavy Christmas poem from 2009 (text also on Tera) + add any other annotations you consider apt

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-12-days-of-christmas-2009-poet-435367

Task (starts in class, should be finished at home, presentations in class):
The poem divided into 3 parts, each group of three looks deeper into their third (but reads the whole and annotates everything to some extent). Annotating using a colour code you have developed for reading texts is important here, too, as preparation for annotating Paper 1 texts before you start writing-

Group 1 (stanzas 1-4): Pradny, Timo, Frederik

Group 2 (stanzas 5-8): Steven, Olabanji, Anastasia)

Group 3 (stanzas 9-12): Neel, Enes, Sithil

Traditional song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tReKR_ar5Ls