Identity Poetry at KS3

This unit of work explores identity poetry and encourages the students to consider “What makes you, you?” The unit consists of 18 lessons with a mixture of American and British poets such as Maya Angelou and Rudyard Kipling, as well as more modern poets like Benjamin Zephaniah and Jonathan Rodriguez. It is fully resourced with fact files about the poets, comparison worksheets and a focus on imagery, personification and metaphors.

Lesson 1: Poetic techniques
Lesson 2: Rhythm and rhyme
Lesson 3: Poetic techniques review
Lesson 4: I Come From by Dean Atta
Lesson 5: Mother in a Refugee Camp by Chinua Achebe
Lesson 6: Home by Warsan Shire
Lesson 7: My City by George the poet
Lesson 8: The British by Benjamin Zephaniah
Lesson 9: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Lesson 10: Ode to my Hair by Raymond Antrobus
Lesson 11: Hollow by Vanessa Kisuule
Lesson 12: Nothing’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Lesson 13: Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt
Lesson 14: Two Names Two Worlds by Jonathan Rodriguez
Lesson 15: If by Rudyard Kipling
Lesson 16: Half Caste by John Agard
Lesson 17: Island Man by Grace Nichols
Lesson 18: Limbo by Edward Kamau Brathwaite