Breakthrough to understanding unseen poetry

BREAKTHROUGH LESSONS!

This lesson is easy to follow and understand with two different poems that are alike in exploring the viewpoint of a child. This lesson was created to ensure students feel confident answering unseen and understand that their interpretation is just as relevant as everyone else’s as long as they can support their answers. This is the main barrier to overcome when teaching unseen poetry.

This lesson includes a memory quiz mainly focusing on subject terminology, the mark scheme broken down, how to approach an unseen and what to comment on, explorative questions to annotate each poem, two model paragraphs.

This covers 3 lessons.

Poems explored:

‘Climbing My Grandfather’ by Andrew Waterhouse
‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake (songs of innocence)