This 20‑slide teaching PowerPoint offers a complete, structured route through John Donne’s The Sun Rising, following the Connect → Activate → Demonstrate → Consolidate continuum.
It is designed for teachers who want a resource that moves cleanly from conceptual framing to close reading to argument‑building — without padding, without generic commentary, and without extra preparation.

What the resource actually does
Connect
Establishes the poem’s interruption moment; contrasts public and private worlds; introduces the conceit; frames the sun as symbol; and situates Donne’s marriage to Anne More as a pressure shaping the poem’s defiance.

Activate
Teacher‑modelled annotation of stanza one; rhetorical questions, imperatives, personification; explanation of the Ptolemaic universe; and guided tracking of Donne’s argument across all three stanzas.

Demonstrate
Independent annotation; a five‑room Escape Room mirroring the poem’s progression; a logic‑flow chart mapping Donne’s shifts; and a creative dialogue task requiring students to use Donne’s own techniques with accuracy and control.

Consolidate
Debate prompts on sincerity vs hyperbole; AO‑aligned reflection tasks; exit tickets; and structured essay‑planning with quotation precision.

Additional detail
Critical voices from Kolin and Gorton embedded at key points

AO1–AO5 alignment made explicit

Homework‑ready tasks

Fully editable for adaptation to your scheme

Designed for teachers who value clarity, structure, and purposeful movement through a poem