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Search for My Tongue

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Poetry lesson cover naming Sujata Bhatt as the poet and identifying the resource as GCSE poetry study
Cover slide of the poetry lesson
Learning objectives slide introduces meaning, content, language, and structure, with objectives AO1–AO4
Lesson intentions and assessment objectives
Big Questions slide asks what culture and identity mean and whether they change through life experience
Opening questions about culture and identity
Author context slide covers Sujata Bhatt’s birth in Ahmedabad in 1956, education, life in Germany, and awards
Author background before the poetry tasks
Identity starter, part 1, directs students to watch a YouTube video and consider their own identity’s foundations
First identity starter: video and reflection
Identity starter, part 2, asks about family nationalities, cultural celebrations, and languages spoken at home
Second identity starter: family and language
First reading task slide directs students to ask questions, annotate, interpret, and analyze the poem
Instructions for the first reading
Title analysis slide asks about the tone of the word “search” and the function associated with “tongue”
Title exploration before closer analysis
Tone analysis slide explains emotive language and asks students to underline emotive phrases in their poem
Tone task focused on emotive language
Content questions pair the opening five lines with prompts about audience, loss, the tongue motif, and argument
Guided questions on the poem’s opening
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About This Product

GCSE Poetry Lesson: 'Search for my Tongue' by Sujata Bhatt—an engaging teaching resource dedicated to one of the key texts in GCSE studies. The blend of cultural learning and linguistic analysis makes this lesson relevant and impactful for students from Grade 9 to Grade 12 studying Language Arts, specifically poetry.

'Search for my Tongue' by Sujata Bhatt is especially inspirational due to its strong resonance with adolescent readers. This product is a detailed PowerPoint-based, inclusive lesson with approximately 2-3 hours of instructive content spanning over 20 digital slides.

Each Slide Offers Comprehensive Coverage:

  • An initial overview of the author's life story providing necessary context before moving on to the actual text.
  • A starter activity developed as an engaging way to kick off each session.
  • Explanation portion covering narrative queries aiding understanding while language device inquiries highlight techniques applied in the poem. It deepens their grasp on various poetic devices further preparing them for future literary analyses and exams.

The Reading Focus:

  1. The structure-related questions help students fully comprehend verse constructions necessary when dealing with poetry reading or writing.
  2. An academic writing task promotes critical thinking allowing learners express their line-by-line interpretations individualistically in essay format—building skills benefiting beyond classroom walls.
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For added teaching flexibility, this product also contains homework assignments along with extension tasks which allows seamless transitioning between classroom teaching and home-based study or distance learning scenarios without any additional setup required!

Last Minute Recap:


A uniquely tailored plenary assists in summarizing key lessons learned, hence increasing dramatically every student's retention rate!

Note:

This downloadable file is offered exclusively via Teach Simple and comes compatible exclusively as a Microsoft PowerPoint file. It's the complete teaching resource you've been looking for that makes poetry-teaching easy, understanding uncomplicated and learning absolutely interesting!

What's Included

1 PowerPoint with 20 ready to display slides

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