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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 3 - Conflict: Poetry and Modern Drama · Week 5
Pages: Dharker, "Honour Killing"
Dharker reframes "conflict" as internal/cultural: a woman strips off religious, national, gendered identities to declare autonomy. Anaphora ("At last…") structures liberation.
Lesson 1
What students do
Close read anaphora and stripping imagery (chador, coat, skin).
Task
Annotate structural unfolding.
Success criteria
Reads structurally.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discuss: is "conflict" only war, or also identity-conflict?
Task
Argue for an expanded definition.
Success criteria
Argues conceptually.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model: "Dharker presents internal conflict which reflects diasporic and gendered struggle."
Task
Write a Y9-stem topic sentence.
Success criteria
Stems are conceptual.
Lesson 4
What students do
Analyse the body imagery and skin metaphor.
Task
Paragraph on autonomy.
Success criteria
Sustains control.
Lesson 5
What students do
Plan a comparison: Dharker vs Sassoon on what conflict means.
Task
Comparative paragraph.
Success criteria
Compares across forms.
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