Sample KIO Lesson plans
The draft material below gives a flavour of the educational pack we will be producing at Brockworth Enterprise School – I’ll provide details of our marketing in the new year.
Kick it out Poetry Pack Questions and Activities
Objectives:- (1)To develop literacy and poetry skills
(2) To develop emotional literacy for the young active citizen
(3) To develop political literacy for the young active citizen
ACTIVITIES
(1) Divide the class into groups-
Group A covers poems 1-7
B: 8-13
C: 14-19
D: 20-23
E: 24-28
F: 29-34
Extension work and/or work for gifted and talented: 35-
(2) Group A
1. Look at poem 1. Which famous black American also had a dream?
2. Poems do not always rhyme at the end of lines. Sometimes they have
internal rhymes. Find 2 examples of internal rhyme in the first poem and
write them down.
3. Look at the last 9 lines of the 1st poem. Can you see why the 2nd from
last here starts ‘u’ instead ‘You’?
4.What do you think is the worst feeling in poem 2? Discuss in your group
and decide. Then re-write the poem with the first line ‘I love being black’
and carry on with a rhyme scheme.
5. How many different pronouns are used in poem 3?
6. Poem 4 suggests the crowd went through different stages of feelings.
Describe those stages. What made the racist feel ‘a clown’ do you think/
7. Poem 5 says we should leave people alone ’unless’- unless what?
Do you agree with the poem. Explain your reasoning.
8. What is the rhyme scheme in poem 6? Give examples. How does the poem
achieve closure with an end of line rhyme?
10. Now write your own anti-racist football poem. If your teacher wishes to
send it in to the football poets website (www.footballpoets.org) then a
spell check will be needed and also permission from parents/ carers. There
is also a submission form on www.footballpoets.org.
-Now go onto the extension/ gifted and talented work.
Group B
1. Look at poem 8. What would you do if you ruled the world so as to make
the world a better place? List 10 things.
2.Do you think line 3 is a good idea? What is this system of government
called? What is the opposite system called? (Both words begin with ‘d’).
3. What is the rhyme scheme in poem 9?
4. Why do you think the last line of poem 10 is so long? ( Clue: read the
first letter of each line downwards. What is this type of poem called).
5. Why is poem 11 so clever?
6. Why is the first word of the 2nd line of the last stanza misspelled?
7. List the causes of racism stated in poem 7. Do you agree with these?
Discuss.
8. Poem 12 is a rugby poem and a what type of poem?
9. Poem 13 states that racism is a shame to the human race. List nine other
shames to the human race and put them in rank order.
10. Now write your own anti-racist football poem. If your teacher wishes to
send it in to the football poets website (www.footballpoets.org) then a
spellcheck will be needed and also permission from parents/ carers. There is
a submission form on www.footballpoets.org.
-Now go onto the extension/ gifted and talented work.
Group C
1. Look at poem 14. Show ways in which you agree and disagree with what’s
said in the poem.
2. What is the rhyme scheme in poem 15?
3. How does poem 16 achieve emphasis?
4. Why does repetition work in this poem rather than make it boring?
5. How would you analyse the rhyme scheme?
6. Do a syllable count for the lines and write it down.
7. Poem 17 is an example of what type of poem?
8. What do you think is the most outstanding quality shown in poem17?
Discuss in you group and reach agreement.
9. Poem 18 states that racism makes the player feel incomplete. Give 3
exampes of that.
10. What suggests the player feels anxious at the start of the game?
11. What is the message of poem 19?
12. Now write your own anti-racist football poem . If your teacher wishes to
send it to the football poets website (www.footballpoets.org) then a
spellcheck will be needed and also permission from parents/ carers. There is
a submission form on www.footballpoets.org. Now go onto the extension/
gifted and talented work.
Group D
1. Would you say poem 20 had a rhyme scheme? If so, describe it.
2. Do you agree with the writer’s recommendationsin the 6th, 4th, 3rd and
2nd from last lines? Do you think that it would ‘clean up the cowards’?
Discuss and list your ideas.
3. Why is the writer of poem 21 cleaver with the 2 ways in which she uses
the word ‘best’?
4. Poem 21 is a very sad poem. List as many words as you can that describe
the different feelings you get from reading this poem.
5. Do you find the image ‘Rain from the skies like crying eyes’ a powerful
one? Discuss the use of this image and list your ideas.
6. How many ‘differences’ are listed in 22 (b)?
7. Which ‘difference’ can result in unfair treatment?
8. What is the main way to get rid of that unfairness in the writer’s view?
9. There is a complicated rhyme scheme in poem 23. Analyse it.
10. There are a number of messages in poem 23. What would you say is the
most important one?
11. Now write your own anti-racist football poem. If your teacher wishes to
send it in to the football poets website (www.footballpoets.org) then a
spellcheck will be needed and also permission from parents/ carers. There is
a submission form on www.footballpoets.org.
Now go onto the extension / gifted and talented work.
Group E
1. Look at the first 2 lines of poem 24. List ways in which this could be
argued to be true and ways in which this wouldn’t be true.
2. The poem ends quite abrubtly- how can we make that wish come true?
Discuss in your group and list 10 ideas.
3. Analyse the rhyme scheme in poem 25 and then do a syllable count for each
line.
4. Look at the 4th stanza of poem 26. List 15 consequences – Have 5
consequences on a personal level, 5 on a local community level and 5 on a
political whole country level,
5. Poem 27 has a play on words (a pun). What is that play on words? Explain.
6. What does the word cosmopolitan mean? Find out.
7. Do this after the lesson- get ths poem translated into as many different
languages as you can within your school community and put them on posters
for a wall display.
8. Poem 28 mentions the word ‘autograph’ . List as many words as you can
beginning with the prefix ‘auto’.
9. List all the messages that poem 28 contains. Which do you think is the
most important and why? In what ways can the whole poem be seen as a
metaphor? Discuss and explain.
10. Now write your own anti-racist football poem. If your teacher wishes to
send it in to the football poets website (www. footballpoets.org) then a
spellcheck will be needed and also permission from parents/ carers. There is
a submission form on www.footballpoets.org. Now go onto the extension/
gifted and talented work.
Group F
1.Poem 29 argues that racism is caused by a lack of knowledge , intelligence
and experience. Do you agree with this? Discuss and list your ideas.
2. Does poem 30 have a rhyme scheme? Analyse it.
3. List all the different messages contained within poem 30. Which do you
think is the most important and why? Discuss and explain.
4. The 1st stanza of poem 31 talks about identity- ‘I’m still me’. List all
the things that help to give you your identity. What is the most important?
5. The last line says, ‘It’s a shame to the human race’. Apart from racism,
list another nine shames to the human race. Now including racism, put them
in rank order (1 = the worst).
6. List all the ways poem 32 suggests that you should go about your life so
as to become a better person. Some things that are listed are almost
opposites- which?
7. Read poem 33. It seems to be a piece of free verse. Now read the first
letter of each line – What sort of poem is this?
8. The poem uses the word ‘mindless’. List as many words as you can to
describe ‘mindless’.
9. Read poem 34. What sort of poem is this?
10. Now write your own anti-racist football poem. If your teacher wishes to
send it to the football poets website (www.footballpoets.org) then a spell
check will be needed and also permission from parents/carers. There is a
submission form on www.footballpoets.org. Now go onto the extension/gifted
and talented work.
Extension/ Gifted and Talented
Extension- If you have computer access, then follow these instructions.
Otherwise, your teacher will print the poems and ….. for you
1. Log on to www.irespect.net. Click on lesson plan.
2. Then click on Kick out Racism with the Football Poets.
3. Then follow the instructions.
Gifted and Talented-
1. Log on to www.irespect.net. Click on lesson plan
2. Click on ‘Becoming a Citizen’. Follow the instructions but substitute
your school for Brockworth.
3. As (1). Then click on The Cross of St. George and Cultural Diversity.
4. Click on www.footballpoets.org. Then click on Butler’s Bench. Then click
on 11th May 2005 ‘Gypsy Chants and Traveller Rants’. You can see from
reading the poem that anti-gypsy chanting is done at some football grounds.
Write a draft letter to your local football club, asking it to ensure that
it will not allow such racialist chanting.
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Latest Comments
5th December 2022 at 8:11 pm
Stuart, you are not alone, in your dichotomy of doubt
but without dissention
you stand alone
in hogging our attention!
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16th November 2022 at 11:04 am
[Football on soiled turf]
This is a wonderful phrase which I shall be using from now on!
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15th November 2022 at 3:54 pm
Well said Crispin. One of the reasons for The Ball 2022/23 is exactly this – that FIFA need to know. The Ball is essentially a petition to FIFA to honour their commitments to the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework. They signed up; they should act. The Qatar tournament takes the World Cup in the opposite direction to that commitment. And 2026 looks like it’ll be even worse.
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8th November 2022 at 2:06 pm
Hi Guys
Re ‘Lets Boycott Qatar ‘ poem
You probably hate me banging on..and problably know (like me) that my/your not watching the World Cup in Qatar will make no difference.
Of course it won’t. That’s not the point.
OK someone might possibly eventually publish a minimal drop in terrestrial TV viewer numbers, but I fear that is unlikely.
But please above all, do go on writing poems about the World Cup, as/you we have always done. I hate to think a poem or two of mine might l make you feel bad about comenting on a game or country …or that I’ve put you all off about wanting to contribute.
So we’d love to hear from you and read your thoughts and observations, as ever on what’s going on.
Some of us have been here since Football Poets website birth/inception for the Euros 2000 ….
All my best wishes
Crispin
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18th October 2022 at 10:06 am
Shoot! (Something we’ve also been screaming in vain at our team all season !)
Great memories Joe . Before Shoot, it was Roy of the Rovers comic too, dropping through my letterbox.
Anxiously waiting each week to see if they survived in the mexcian jungle after an ambush..or a pre-season earthquake!
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3rd October 2022 at 8:32 pm
Thanks for the kind words Sharon. Yes, it was a shame with Billy Shako, but with five subs now being allowed, he might yet make it off the bench. Even if it’s just a cameo to close out a poem.
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2nd October 2022 at 1:49 pm
John, your new book is an absolute delight and more please. It’s a shame ‘Swapping Shirts With Shakespeare’ never made it off the bench, but quality football poets light up the writing fields like Roman candles. Go well.
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4th September 2022 at 12:42 pm
Great memories Greg. Took me right back.
Today I stand on a small terrace in the hills where I live watching Forest Green Rovers in L1, and keep up with Chelsea on highlights. It’s a far cry and a world away from those times when I lived as a child within walking distance of ‘The Bridge’ – just off the Ifield Road, which led to Fulham Road. The Blues were rubbish for so long, but we loved them and somehow we stayed in the old First Division for so many seasons. And of course we got to see Greavesie at his impudent best, scoring goals for fun. Mad unpredictable games where we’d score 4 and let in five.
The looming floodlights in the dark and mist on magic night games. The big games when the ground heaved.
I don’t think we ever realized how magical and incredible it was back then. The atmosphere and arriving there so early – like you said.. just to make sure you got in. Back when Bovril, tea and cake and roasted peanuts for sixpence a back were just about all on offer.
Good times.
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4th September 2022 at 12:37 pm
see above
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18th August 2022 at 10:20 am
To put it politely!
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