Unseen poetry teaching pack

Take a step by step approach to building your students’ confidence in understanding and analysing unseen poems.

‘The way to understand poems, whether unseen or not, is to get under their skin – and that requires active strategies, which this teaching pack and resources provide.’
Trevor Millum, writer and poet

This time-saving teaching pack includes seven pairs of carefully-selected poems for comparison alongside a resource workbook, providing you and your students with all you need to prepare for the unseen poetry element of the GCSE exam.

What’s included?

• 7 pairs of poems
• a resource workbook for students to complete
• detailed teaching notes for each poem
• a mix of older and contemporary poems
• exam-style questions for all exam boards.

What’s inside?

Introduction

Top tips for approaching an unseen poem

Unit 1

• ‘At the Draper’s’ by Thomas Hardy
• ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti
• Comparison resource
• Exam questions

Unit 2

• ‘Late Love’ by Jackie Kay
• ‘Love and Friendship’ by Emily Brontë
• Comparison resource
• Exam questions

Unit 3

• ‘Finding the Keys’ by Robin Robertson
• ‘October’ by Robert Frost
• Comparison resource
• Exam questions

Unit 4

• ‘Calling Card’ by Tracey Herd
• ‘For Meg’ by Fleur Adcock
• Comparison resource
• Exam questions

Unit 5

• ‘A London Thoroughfare. 2am.’ by Amy Lowell
• ‘Frost Fair’ by Rowyda Amin
• Comparison resource
• Exam questions

Unit 6

• ‘Long Life’ by Elaine Feinstein
• ‘Fish oil, exercise and no wild parties’ by Beatrice Garland
• Comparison resource
• Exam questions