Love and Relationships

15 fully-adaptable PowerPoints covering each of the Love and Relationship poems in the AQA English Literature GCSE Poetry Anthology. Suitable for those students aiming for grades 7-9.

Each PowerPoint contains:

1. AQA Assessment objectives for the poetry anthology examination paper
2. A brief biography of the poet
3. A link to an audio reading of the poems and a listening task before reading
4. A list of high-level terminology for each poem as required for higher grades, and as a ‘way-in’ to the poems
5. A pyramid of critical questions which moves from knowledge to evaluation as a way of stretching higher students’ thinking, rather than you simply offering didactic teaching/leading questions
6. A copy, or link to a copy of the poem (due to copyright of some poems; you can easily copy and paste into PowerPoint)
7. A student sheet which can be printed off or projected onto the board as a structure to record ideas whilst working through critical questions
8. A short plenary

Followed by:
Teacher notes -two/three slides containing ideas for understanding each poem and its methods at a high level which you should likely read before the lesson as preparation for discussion and teaching.

How much you ‘teacher-lead’ using these notes, or whether you use them to aid independent learning is up to you. Notes are not definitive, but offer good-grounding in understanding poets’ use of method in the poems, with detail on structure and form as well as language in order to reach higher grades.

NEW: THREE PAGE LESSON PLAN ON HOW TO USE EACH SLIDE INCLUDING KEY QUESTIONS, LEARNING AND OUTCOMES

The lessons presume that some previous learning has taken place on what language, form and structure mean, and that students have a good level of understanding of what questions they should ask of poems in order to explore them (e.g. when was it written? how might that influence language choices? is there a specific form? what relevance is the form? how is the poem’s narrative structured and why? etc.)

You can find revision posters for your students nearer exam time here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/love-and-relationships-revision-12183742

Kind regards,
Englbee x