Teaching Pack

Teaching Pack - teaching ideas and resources for Keats’ ‘Lamia’. 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.

For this resource, there are 2 teaching Packs - one for Part 1, the other for Part 2.

This is the content page from the Teaching Pack - Lamia Part 1:

Contents
Introduction to A Level AHEAD 2
Teaching Lamia Across Both Parts: Planning and Pacing Guidance 2
Overview: Lamia, Book I 2
Planning Learning and Teaching Activities — Book I 3
CONNECT Phase: Establishing Prior Knowledge and Context 3
ACTIVATE Phase: Modelling and Guided Exploration 3
DEMONSTRATE Phase: Independent Engagement with the Text 4
CONSOLIDATE Phase: Checking Understanding and Preparing for Part 2 4
Detailed Activities — Book I 4
CONNECT Phase: Detailed Activity Implementation 4
ACTIVATE Phase: Detailed Activity Implementation 5
DEMONSTRATE Phase: Detailed Activity Implementation 7
CONSOLIDATE Phase: Detailed Activity Implementation 10
Student Handouts 12
Handout 1: Annotation Framework for Close Reading 12
Handout 2: Essay Planning Sheet — Victim or Seductress? 13
Handout 3: Key Moments for Revision 14
Critical Contexts and Further Reading 15
Key Critical Frameworks 15

1. Keats and Women: The “Intriguingly Undecided” Figure 15
2. Imagination and Embodiment: The Costs of Human Life 15
3. Public and Private: The Architecture of Vulnerability 15
   Suggested Reading 15
   Key Quotations for Display and Revision 15

This is the Contents Page for Lamia Part 2:
Introduction to A Level AHEAD 2
Teaching Lamia Across Both Parts: Planning and Pacing Guidance 2
Overview: Lamia, Book II 3
Planning Learning and Teaching Activities — Book II 3
CONNECT Phase: Framing the Threat 3
ACTIVATE Phase: Modelling the Philosophical Argument 3
DEMONSTRATE Phase: Independent Engagement with the Text 4
CONSOLIDATE Phase: Synthesis and Extended Understanding 4
Detailed Activities — Book II 4
CONNECT Phase: Detailed Activity Implementation 4
ACTIVATE Phase: Detailed Activity Implementation 6
DEMONSTRATE Phase: Detailed Activity Implementation 8
CONSOLIDATE Phase: Detailed Activity Implementation 12
Student Handouts 14
Handout 1: Key Moments for Revision 14
Handout 2: Essay Planning Sheet — Truth or Beauty? 15
Critical Contexts and Further Reading 16
Key Critical Frameworks 16

1. Cold Philosophy and the Cost of Knowing 16
2. Keats and Women: The Serpent Returns 16
3. The Marriage Robe as Shroud: Form and Meaning 16
   Suggested Reading 16
   Key Quotations for Display and Revision 17