Remains Lesson (With Comparison to Exposure) Power and Conflict AQA

This lesson covers key content for the poem, three carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes.

Quotes include:
“Well myself and somebody else and somebody else”
“His blood-shadow stays on the street”
“probably armed, possibly not”
“One of my mates goes by
and tosses his guts back into his body”
“his bloody life in my bloody hands.”
“he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out, pain itself“

Works towards:
How does Simon Armitage present the effects of war in Remains and one other poem ?