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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 3 - Conflict: Poetry and Modern Drama · Week 4
Pages: Duffy, "War Photographer"
Duffy explores the photographer's ethical paralysis: documenting suffering for readers who flip past it. The poem itself is contained, ordered.
Lesson 1
What students do
Close read religious imagery ("spools of suffering set out in ordered rows").
Task
Annotate the conceit of priest/photographer.
Success criteria
Reads conceits.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discuss: is the photographer ethical observer or complicit?
Task
Take a position with evidence.
Success criteria
Argues with nuance.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model contrast with Owen: physical violence vs mediated violence.
Task
Comparative paragraph.
Success criteria
Compares modes.
Lesson 4
What students do
Analyse the ending ("they do not care").
Task
Paragraph on civilian indifference.
Success criteria
Deploys terminology.
Lesson 5
What students do
Plan a paragraph weighing two readings of the photographer.
Task
Comparative paragraph.
Success criteria
Weighs interpretations.
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