Year 7 · English · beta

Poetry about place and home

In this unit, pupils read and respond to poems that explore the links between place and identity. They start by exploring a selection of poems including Grace Nichol's 'Island Man' and Lemn Sissay's 'Anthem of the North'. They then write and perform their own poems about place and home.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

This Oak index uses an earlier export and lists 13 source lessons. DASKEREL has 14 original lessons for this unit, including 1 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • Pupils understand that poems have different structures to prose
  • Pupils can write a clear topic sentence using the structure: "[Author] presents [character/setting] as..."
  • Pupils can use evidence from a text to support their argument
  • Pupils can expand explanations to show a clear understanding of a text
  • Pupils can identify a range of different word classes
  • Pupils can use single paragraph outlines to plan their writing
  • Pupils can use a range of different adjectives to describe tone
  • Pupils can identify sensory language, onomatopoeia, sibilance, repetition, personification and metaphors
  • Pupils can use compound and complex sentences to develop key descriptions
  • Pupils are able to use adverbial phrases at the start of a sentence

Source curriculum references

  • Read increasingly challenging pre-1914 English Poetry independently
  • Read increasingly challenging contemporary English Poetry independently
  • Understanding increasingly challenging texts through knowing purpose, audience and context of writing
  • Read critically through knowing how poetic conventions are used
  • Write imaginative poetry
  • Using literary knowledge in writing
  • Using rhetorical devices in writing
  • Give short speeches
  • Expressing own ideas in a speech or presentation
  • Keeping to the point in a speech or presentation

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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