1. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology Task 1 (2 minutes) List five amazing inventions (perhaps your all-time top five?) Task 1 (2 minutes) List five amazing inventions (perhaps your all-time top five?) Task 2 (2 minutes) List five obsolete or antiquated inventions from history. Task 2 (2 minutes) List five obsolete or antiquated inventions from history.

2. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology The poems we are looking at over the next few lessons are about times changing, and how easily ideas, objects or people can get swept aside and forgotten. Task (10 minutes) Read the poem ‘Horse Whisperer’. How do you think it links to ‘times changing’? Write down or highlight three changes which occur in the poem. Task (10 minutes) Read the poem ‘Horse Whisperer’. How do you think it links to ‘times changing’? Write down or highlight three changes which occur in the poem.

3. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology Task (10 minutes) Highlight three lines from across the poem which you think tell us the most about times changing. Note down why you chose each one. Be ready to explain your answer. Task (10 minutes) Highlight three lines from across the poem which you think tell us the most about times changing. Note down why you chose each one. Be ready to explain your answer. Symbolism: when an object or setting represents an idea. The horse whisperer and the tractor are symbolic in this poem.

4. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology Symbolism: when an object or setting represents an idea. The horse whisperer and the tractor are symbolic in this poem. Task (15 minutes) 1)Why do you think horse whisperers are now obsolete? 2)What do you think the tractor symbolises (represents)? 3)How does the horse whisperer feel having been replaced? 4)What choices does the horse whisperer have? Task (15 minutes) 1)Why do you think horse whisperers are now obsolete? 2)What do you think the tractor symbolises (represents)? 3)How does the horse whisperer feel having been replaced? 4)What choices does the horse whisperer have?

5. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology Task (10 minutes) If the job you had done for years (and was all you knew) suddenly stopped, what would you do, and how would you feel? Task (10 minutes) If the job you had done for years (and was all you knew) suddenly stopped, what would you do, and how would you feel? Extension How could ‘Horse Whisperer’ link to the coal mining industry in the 1980s? Extension How could ‘Horse Whisperer’ link to the coal mining industry in the 1980s? Symbolism: when an object or setting represents an idea. The horse whisperer and the tractor are symbolic in this poem.