An Unknown Girl by Moniza Alvi

This resource is a full lesson, which covers the background, form and structure, and imagery of Moniza Alvi’s An Unknown Girl.

The lesson was designed for use with students writing their coursework for the Edexcel IGCSE Language A qualification. We wrote our essays on the theme of identity, but the resource could easily be adapted for any question.

The presentation is highly visual and word banks are included to support students in the writing of their coursework essay.

Analysis of imagery is conducted via group task, where groups have a short section of the poem surrounded by prompts and questions, which they need to annotate their answers to and then present back to the class.