John Keats - 20 lessons for A Level English Lit (Edexcel - Poetry unit) - plus anthology

20 high-quality lesson Powerpoints for John Keats’s poetry, plus a bespoke anthology Word doc containing all the poems on the Edexcel spec with student-friendly summaries and glossaries (to be printed or shared digitally with students). The lesson Powerpoints are very detailed and designed to double as revision resources.

Though the selection of poems is catering to Edexcel’s selection of 14, these resources would be appropriate to any English Literature A Level or GCSE lesson on Keats. Lessons provided are as follows:

1. Intro - Keats bio
2. Intro - Poetic Form
3. ‘O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell’
4. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
5. On the Sea
6. ‘In drear-nighted December’
7. On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
8. ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’
9. The Eve of St Agnes (lesson 1)
10. The Eve of St Agnes (lesson 2)
11. The Eve of St Agnes (lesson 3)
12. To Sleep
13. Ode to Psyche
14. Ode on a Grecian Urn
15. Ode to a Nightingale
16. Ode on Melancholy
17. ‘Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art’
18. To Autumn
19. Recap - themes
20. Recap - form

Lesson preview: Ode on a Grecian Urn: https://imgur.com/hNDO3ld
Lesson preview: ‘When I have Fears’: https://imgur.com/a/mec01jn
Lesson preview: Poetic Form: https://imgur.com/a/KiQyJPU