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Two detailed lessons exploring John Davidson’s 'In Romney Marsh’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A complete set of ‘Learning Checkpoint’ sheets for GCSE Edexcel English Language and English Literature.
Included are templates for every longer response question across Language and Literature.
The sheets allow you to set a short task or paragraph response with pre-filled lines for students to write on. Students write in their own graded target. All you need to do is to tick the appropriate box as to whether they met their target and highlight or underline any of the pre-populated targets appropriate for that task or response.
You can easily mark a class set of responses in 10 to 20 minutes and students quickly receive appropriate targets/feedback. I use these every other lesson in the run up to mocks or exam season and they are a game changer.
Easily adaptable for your own targets, these low stakes templates will reduce your workload.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Pride and Prejudice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 23 examination-length extracts from The Merchant of Venice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
A complete set of seven ‘Learning Checkpoint’ sheets for A Level AQA English Literature A.
Included are templates for every section of each exam paper and for the NEA.
The sheets allow you to set a short task or paragraph response with pre-filled lines for students to write on. Students write in their own graded target. All you need to do is to tick the appropriate box as to whether they met their target and highlight or underline any of the pre-populated targets appropriate for that task or response.
You can easily mark a class set of responses in 10 to 20 minutes and students quickly receive appropriate targets/feedback. I use these every other lesson in the run up to mocks or exam season and they are a game changer.
Easily adaptable for your own targets, these low stakes templates will reduce your workload.
Two detailed lessons exploring Seamus Heaney’s ‘Death of a Naturalist’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Ted Hughes’ ‘Hawk Roosting’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring William Wordsworth’s ‘Excerpt from The Prelude’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Robert Browning’s ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Thomas Hardy’s ‘Where the Picnic was’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Jamaican British’ by Raymond Antrobus from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'My Mother’s Kitchen’ by Choman Hardi from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Clear and Gentle Stream’ by Robert Bridges from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'We Refugees’ by Benjamin Zephaniah from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Based on the Eduqas poetry anthology, this unit is comprised of 18 poetry lessons (which can be extended to 36 lessons if you include the assessment lessons).
Each PowerPoint explores a different poem in isolation and is the perfect introduction to poetry for a Year 9 group. This can also be used as an unseen unit for GCSE if you do not teach Eduqas. Eduqas questions lend themselves well to unseen analysis as they are comprised of two parts - one question focuses on the poem and the second question asks students to compare that poem to another in the anthology.
You will need to download the Eduqas poetry anthology or print off copies of the poems from the PowerPoint slides.
This bundle comprises 18 poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Eduqas Poetry Anthology: ‘A Wife in London’; ‘Afternoons’; ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’; ‘Cozy Apologia’; ‘Death of a Naturalist’; ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’; ‘Excerpt from the Prelude’; ‘Hawk Roosting’; ‘Living Space’; ‘London’; ‘Mametz Wood’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘She Walks in Beauty’; ‘Sonnet 43’; ‘The Manhunt’; ‘The Soldier’; ‘To Autumn’; and ‘Valentine’.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology - guided poetry analysis
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Sunday Dip’ by John Clare from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'To My Sister’ by William Wordsworth from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Mild the Mist Upon the Hill’ by Emily Brontë from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
