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GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Half-Caste’ by John Agard

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Cover slide introducing John Agard’s poem ‘Half-Caste’ as the focus of a GCSE poetry lesson.
Opening slide of the poetry lesson
Learning objectives slide outlining exploration of the poem’s meaning, content, language, and structure.
Lesson objectives and assessment aims
Big Questions slide asking how a racist term can hurt a person’s emotions and feelings of self-worth.
Guiding question about racism and self-worth
Author context slide covering John Agard’s Guyanese upbringing, mixed heritage, move to Britain, and writing.
Author biography introducing John Agard
Starter activity slide linking a video on racism and asking about shocking facts and ways to combat discrimination.
Video-based starter on racism
First-reading task slide directing students to ask questions, annotate, interpret, and analyze the poem.
Directions for the first reading
Poem text slide presenting Agard’s speaker challenging prejudice through examples of art, weather, and music.
Poem text for reading and annotation
Title analysis slide asking about negative connotations of ‘half’ and the discriminatory nature of caste.
Initial meaning explored through the title
Tone analysis slide explaining emotive language and asking students to underline emotive phrases in the poem.
Tone and emotive language annotation task
Content questions slide asking about tone, two supporting quotes, target audience, purpose, and ideas.
Questions on the poem’s tone and purpose
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GCSE Poetry: ‘Half-Caste’ by John Agard

‘Half-Caste’ by John Agard remains an inspirational text that resonates strongly for the adolescent audience. I have used this detailed PowerPoint lesson (21 slides, approximately 2-3 hours teaching time) to lead my learning in class, as a distance learning material/homework and even as a tool of revision – all have worked well for the students.

This beautifully illustrated lesson contains a brief author biography, a starter activity, content and narrative questions, language device questions, structure questions, an academic writing task, an extension task, a homework assignment and a plenary. All the time-consuming work has been done for you, this is a complete resource. Enjoy.

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1 PowerPoint with 21 ready to display slides

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