Classroom Materials - Poetry Archive

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Lesson on 'Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead' by Kathleen Jamie
Esther Menon

Lesson on 'In-a Brixtan Markit' by James Berry
Lisa Dart

Starter ideas for Inclusion at KS4
Carolyn Purslow

Lesson on 'The Applicant' by Sylvia Plath
Julie Blake

Lesson on 'The Whitsun Weddings' by Philip Larkin
Sue Dymoke

Lesson on 'The Tin Wash Dish' by Les Murray
Sue Dymoke

Ideas for inclusion at KS4
Carolyn Purslow

Lesson on 'Everyone Sang' by Siegfried Sassoon
Sue Dymoke

Lesson on 'Journey of the Magi' by T S Eliot
Julie Blake

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