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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 3 - Conflict: Poetry and Modern Drama · Week 6
Pages: Armitage, "Remains"
Armitage uses a soldier's monologue (from "The Not Dead", 2008) to dramatise PTSD: the looter "bursts again through the doors of the bank" of memory.
Lesson 1
What students do
Close read enjambment, colloquial register, intrusion structure.
Task
Annotate dramatic monologue form.
Success criteria
Reads voice precisely.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discuss: how does PTSD become a kind of conflict in itself?
Task
Position with textual evidence.
Success criteria
Extends interpretation.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model contrast with Owen: trench trauma vs domestic trauma.
Task
Comparative paragraph.
Success criteria
Compares trauma's forms.
Lesson 4
What students do
Analyse the present-tense intrusion ("his bloody life in my bloody hands").
Task
Paragraph on PTSD as form.
Success criteria
Uses precise terms.
Lesson 5
What students do
Plan a thesis comparing two conflict poems.
Task
Thesis + first comparative paragraph.
Success criteria
Thesis compares.
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