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This lesson focuses on analyzing how language conveys character in human interest stories, specifically through the poem 'Human Interest' by Carol Ann Duffy. Students will explore key features of human interest stories, identify emotional language, and reflect on the narrator's character. The lesson encourages students to engage with media and create a narrative from a different perspective.

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This lesson focuses on analyzing how language conveys character in human interest stories, specifically through the poem 'Human Interest' by Carol Ann Duffy. Students will explore key features of human interest stories, identify emotional language, and reflect on the narrator's character. The lesson encourages students to engage with media and create a narrative from a different perspective.

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Poisonous Poetry Lesson 5:

Human Interest
Learning Objective
To analyse how a writer uses language to convey character.

Success Criteria
• To identify key features of human interest stories.
• To read and understand Human Interest by Carol Ann Duffy.
• To explore how language conveys character in the poem.
Human Interest Stories

What is a human interest story in


the media? Can you think of any
examples of human interest
stories?
Key Terms
Human interest story: a news
story which deals with an
individual’s story or
experience, usually in an
emotive way.
Media Investigation
Read today’s news and find a human
interest story.

Can you identify


what makes it What sort of language
interesting? does the story use?

Does it have Does it have any


interviews or pictures? What are
quotations? Who they like?
from?
How long is it?

What have you


learnt from the
story?
Human Interest

Read Human Interest


by Carol Ann Duffy.

What is this poem


about? Why is it called
Human Interest?
Carol Ann Duffy

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Duffy also Duffy
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teaches
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The Narrator
In this poem, the narrator is in prison for
committing a terrible crime.
How are we meant to feel about him? Look carefully
at the language he uses. Fill in your character
outline with quotations from the poem which tell us
something about his character.
Now, around the outside, put words which you
think
describe what he is like.
Do you notice any conflicts between the
words
you have written? What does this tell us
about Key Terms
the character of the narrator?
Antithesis: a person, idea
or thing which is the
complete opposite of
something else.
In Their Shoes
Return to the human interest
story you found earlier in the
lesson.

Write a short paragraph from


the point of view of a person
in the article discussing the
subject of the story. Think
about how they would speak
and how they would view the
events which took place.
Fill in Human Interest on
your timeline!

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