CIEA IGCSE 0990/0992 'SONGS OF OURSELVES' POETRY WORKSHEETS

A worksheet for every poem in the IGCSE 0990/ 0992 selection for 2021 and 2022 - poems as follows:
Maya Angelou, ‘Caged Bird’
Elizabeth Barret Browning, ‘Sonnet 43’
Sujata Bhatt, ‘Muliebrity’
Boey King Cheng, ‘The Planners’
Isobel Dixon, ‘Plenty’
Rosemary Dobson, ‘The Three Fates’
Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’
Seamus Heaney, ‘Mid-Term Break’
Mervyn Morris, ‘Little Boy Crying’
Norman Nicholson, ‘Rising Five’
Adrienne Rich, ‘Amends’
Edna St. Vincent Millay, ‘Sonnet 29’
Dennis Scott, ‘Marrysong’
Stevie Smith, ‘Not Waving But Drowning’
William Wordsworth, ‘She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways’

Suitable for classwork or private study.

Each worksheet has a text of the poem, a short biography, and a series of questions approaching the text through important concepts - content, language/ lexis/ diction, imagery, sound, rhythm, rhyme and other formal elements. Some have starter and extension activities.

These are ‘no fuss’ worksheets - ready to be handed out, and easily convertible into fancy slides etc for class use.