WJEC Poetry Anthology Comparison- Valentine and Sonnet 43

Small unit of work consisting of three lessons. Quick, colourful and helpful for years 10 and 11. Focus is on how to make comparisons between texts for the WJEC English GCSE poetry anthology.

The two poems compared are ‘Valentine’ and ‘Sonnet 43’.

Starter - How to write a summary of ‘Valentine’. Can we predict the content of the poem we are about to read?

‘Valentine’ Cloze Activity.

‘Valentine’ - annotation of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem.

‘Valentine’ Comparison Lesson with ‘Sonnet 43’ by Elizabeth Barret Browning - focus is on language and structure. Student response exemplar for GCSE question. Also, there are thematic lists of each of the poems in the anthology included for analysis.