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GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Letters from Yorkshire’ by Maura Dooley

An educational teaching resource from Flynn's Educational entitled GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Letters from Yorkshire’ by Maura Dooley downloadable at Teach Simple.
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Poetry

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Grade 9, 10, 11, 12

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GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Letters from Yorkshire’ by Maura Dooley

This is a rich and detailed resource perfectly designed for Grade 9-12 Language Arts instructors. Focusing on the poem ‘Letters from Yorkshire,’ this lesson plan checks all the boxes to stimulate deep understanding of poetry among students.

About The Lesson
  • The core of this lesson revolves around the complexities and themes found in 'Letters from Yorkshire.'
  • In-lesson activities aid in enhancing language comprehension and deepen understanding about relationships.

Contents of The Resource

The material comes as an illustrated, easy-to-follow, 19-slide PowerPoint presentation. Broken down into necessary stages, each slide bursts with learning potential:

  • Starter Activity: A warm-up endeavour preparing students for poetic learning
  • Maura Dooley Biography: Offering a glimpse into the poet's life and career path.
  • Critical Thinking Questions: Prompts centred around analysing key elements using content-language-structure mediums.
  • The Writing Task:An academic composition eyeing comprehensive expression through writing. Extension Task:A task propelling higher-order thinking while adding depth to grasped concepts. Two further aspects: A follow-up homework assignment geared at long-term retention - AND a plenary encapsulating reflections on learned material; make this offering an enticing proposition.

All slides are designed using Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation making it ideal for direct classroom instructions or managing independent distance learning sessions via platforms like 'Google Meet'. Thanks to its flexibility, engaging group discussions can also be organised without requiring extra efforts.

In conclusion, this GCSE Poetry Lesson focus on Maura Dooley's ‘Letters from Yorkshire’ is a versatile tool for conducting compelling poetry lessons, irrespective of your teaching setup.

What's Included

1 PowerPoint with 19 ready to display slides

Resource Tags

poetry analysis Maura Dooley relationships language comprehension critical thinking

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