Teaching Pack
Teaching Pack - teaching ideas and resources for Duffy’s ‘Disgrace’. Lesson planning ideas and resource materials for active learning, critical thinking and creative approaches to explore the poem in detail.

Lessons are structured around, but not limited to, the following learning continuum: Connect - Activate - Demonstrate - Consolidate.

This is the content page from the Teaching Pack:
Contents
Introduction to A Level AHEAD 3
Disgrace — Overview 3
Planning Learning and Teaching Activities: Disgrace 4
Connect Phase (Choose 1–2 activities) 4
Activate Phase (Choose 1–2 activities) 5
Demonstrate Phase (Choose 2–3 activities) 5
Consolidate Phase (Choose 1–2 activities) 6
Activities — Detailed Implementation 6
Connect Phase Activities 6
Activity 1: The House You Live In 6
Activity 2: Grace and Disgrace 7
Activity 3: Woke To 7
Activity 4: Objects That Feel 8
Activity 5: When Words Go Wrong 8
Activate Phase Activities 9
Activity 1: Modelled Annotation of Stanzas One and Two 9
Activity 2: The Conceit and the Metaphysical Inheritance 9
Activity 3: Mapping the House 10
Activity 4: Boxing the Motifs 10
Activity 5: Nothing We Would Not Do 11
Demonstrate Phase Activities 12
Activity 1: Genially Escape Room — The House of Disgrace 12
Activity 2: Room-by-Room Close Reading Carousel 12
Activity 3: The Communication Timeline 13
Activity 4: Creative Response — Writing “Grace” 13
Activity 5: Object Monologues 14
Consolidate Phase Activities 14
Activity 1: Essay Planning Framework 14
Activity 2: Debate and Defend 15
Activity 3: Linking Theme to Close Analysis 15
Activity 4: Floor Plan Design 16
Activity 5: Performance and Voice 16
Student Handouts 17
Handout 1: Annotation Framework for Disgrace 17
Handout 2: Essay Planning Sheet for Disgrace 20
Handout 3: Creative Writing Framework — Companion Poem “Grace” 22
Handout 4: Comparative Analysis Planner — Relationship Poetry 23
Handout 5: Research Investigation Sheet — Context and Criticism 24
Teacher Planning: Interactive Quizzes and Activities 25
Create the Escape Room — Instructions for Setting Up on Genially 25
The Ten Challenges — Teacher Version with Suggested Answers 26
Student Version — The House of Disgrace 33
Paper Task Version 35
Alternative Activities 35
Visualising the Argument: Relationship Breakdown Mapping 35
Timeline Analysis: Sudden Awareness, Prolonged Decay 35
Reader Response Comparison 35
Paired Reading with “The Windows” 36
Persona and Address 36
Cross-Curricular Connections 36
Extended Research: Contemporary Relationships 36
Essay Challenges 36
Critical Contexts and Further Reading 37
Critical Perspectives 37
Essential Duffy Studies 38
Further Scholarly Articles 38
Wider Critical and Theoretical Context 38
Assessment Objectives Alignment 38