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?