Grade 9 Analysis of Charge of the Light Brigade

Propel students to top grades in their full understanding of the context of this poem. It is propaganda, we know. But teaching the rhyme scheme and dactyl metre reveals a surprising alternative, that Tennyson is horrified at the senseless slaughter of the soldiers. Students who understand ‘form and structure’ achieve at least grade 7.

A video also explains everything, so your students can follow up the lesson with homework, or can use it as flipped learning before you teach the poem.