The resource is a PowerPoint presentation.
The lesson's objective is to get students to understand and explore the poem, and to get students writing about poetry in an appropriate style for the GCSE English literature exam.
The Edexcel English Literature GCSE requires students to include reference to contextual factors. The PPT therefore includes a slide summarising contextual factors that are relevant to this poem.
This PowerPoint provides a way in to the poem, a slide summarising relevant contextual information (see above), slides that display each of the poem's 3 stanzas, a task slide for independent exploration lesson time (this could easily be adapted for group/pair work), a piece of model writing that explores and discusses a single phrase from the poem in detail (160 words), a prompt for students to produce their own piece of analysis in a similar style with a paragraph starter and target words, and finally a plenary where students quickly summarise their understanding of the poem's speaker.
The lesson would take an hour to complete if the writing task was set for homework. Alternatively, the tasks could be stretched over two lessons.
Please note, all animations will appear automatically except the animations on the first and final slides which require a click of the mouse or space bar.
I am a qualified English teacher working in the UK.
The lesson's objective is to get students to understand and explore the poem, and to get students writing about poetry in an appropriate style for the GCSE English literature exam.
The Edexcel English Literature GCSE requires students to include reference to contextual factors. The PPT therefore includes a slide summarising contextual factors that are relevant to this poem.
This PowerPoint provides a way in to the poem, a slide summarising relevant contextual information (see above), slides that display each of the poem's 3 stanzas, a task slide for independent exploration lesson time (this could easily be adapted for group/pair work), a piece of model writing that explores and discusses a single phrase from the poem in detail (160 words), a prompt for students to produce their own piece of analysis in a similar style with a paragraph starter and target words, and finally a plenary where students quickly summarise their understanding of the poem's speaker.
The lesson would take an hour to complete if the writing task was set for homework. Alternatively, the tasks could be stretched over two lessons.
Please note, all animations will appear automatically except the animations on the first and final slides which require a click of the mouse or space bar.
I am a qualified English teacher working in the UK.
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Great resource including all relevant info for teaching this as part of the 'relationships' cluster in the edexcel anthology. Thank you!
A nice resource which gets to the heart of the poem.
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