A powerful, discussion-first unit exploring voice, protest, and social issues across five poems, two songs, and one short film — built for Year 9-10 English classrooms and structured as a ready-to-teach 6-week sequence.

Students examine how writers, musicians, and filmmakers challenge injustice using wildly different strategies — wit and satire, defiant repetition, deliberate ambiguity, and quiet allegory — building both analytical skill and genuine insight into how protest actually works as craft. A dedicated activities-and-lessons deck groups texts by shared theme rather than chronology, giving you ready-made paired analysis, debate, and creative response activities. Every deck is packed with discussion questions and hands-on activities distributed throughout — no worksheets, no passive comprehension tasks.

What’s included:
• Deck 1: Still I Rise (Angelou) — resilience and defiant repetition
• Deck 2: Telephone Conversation (Soyinka) — wit and satire as resistance
• Deck 3: The Rights of Woman (Barbauld) — ambiguity in political rhetoric
• Deck 4: Half-Caste (Agard) — reclaiming labels and language
• Deck 5: London (Blake) — institutional critique and internalised oppression
• Deck 6: Songs — “Alright” (Lamar) & “This Is Me” — structural build as resilience
• Deck 7: “2 + 2” (short film) — allegory, obedience, and quiet resistance
• Deck 8: Cross-Text Themes, Activities & Lessons — paired analysis, debate, and creative response activities grouped by shared theme
• Deck 9: 6-Week Teaching Sequence & Portfolio Assessment — full pacing guide plus annotation, comparative discussion, and analytical/creative writing tasks

Culminates in a portfolio-style assessment combining analytical annotation with extended writing — ideal for a summative task that captures both skills in one product.

Perfect for: Year 9-10 English, protest and rhetoric units, persuasive language study, cross-media literacy, portfolio assessment design
File information: Non-editable PDF, Not an editable PowerPoint / How to use: Upload to your LMS for digital learning / Print selected pages for classroom use / Display pages to guide discussion and activities / Adapt in presentation or design platforms if desired (formatting may vary)