John Donne A Level Scheme

Do you want to teach John Donne?

For Students

This is a six week scheme of work that covers all of the key material needed to teach John Donne’s poetry at A Level. Over 24 lessons, students will learn to break down the poem, to write full-length answers to exam-style questions, and to successfully revise. There is a key focus on comprehension, context, style, craft, vocabulary, exam-style writing and revision. Everything is laid out in an easy digestible manner and the scheme includes time to read.

For Teachers

Each lesson includes helpful guiding question that are answered in the scheme to take the burden off of teachers. Alongside this, there is a scheme overview pack, a key terms glossary, a poetry timeline, and revision tools to helpfully summarise the key character journeys within the play. Each of these can be employed to gain a secure knowledge of the play before you start to teach.

Exam Focus

To secure student success, revision materials are embedded within the scheme. There are dual coded quotes that students can use to revise, an exam mnemonic to help student writing, model answers with scaffolded questions, and revision worksheets to catch up students who may have missed lessons or join the school year at a different time.

This Pack Includes

Full scheme of work
Scheme overview/revision pack
Key terms glossary and model answers
Poetry timeline

The Poems Covered

• The Flea
• Woman’s Constancy
• Love’s Alchemy
• Song (Catch a Falling Star)
• A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy’s Day
• The Apparition
• The Funeral
• Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness
• Batter My Heart
• This is my play’s…
• At the round earth’s….
• The Good Morrow
• The Sun Rising
• Air and Angels
• The Canonization
• A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
• A Valediction of Weeping
• Death Not Be Proud
• Thou Hast Made Me
• Spit In My Face, You Jews
• To His Mistress Going to Bed
• Song (Sweetest Love)
• The Anniversary
• Twicknam Garden
• Love’s Growth
• The Relic
• I Am A Little World
• Goodfriday, Riding Westward
• A Hymn To God the Father
• The Ecstasy
• The Ecstasy