Grade 9 The Prelude Lesson (With Comparison to Storm on the Island) Power and Conflict AQA

This lesson covers key content for the poem, highlighted key quotes with guided notes that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared ideas, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes.

Quotes include:
““a huge peak, black and huge, / As if with voluntary power instinct, / Upreared its head.”
“growing still in stature the grim shape / Towered up between me and the stars” "like a living thing, / Strode after me.”
“Small circles glittering idly in the moon, / Until they melted all into one track / Of sparkling light.”

Works towards:
How is nature presented in 'The Prelude’?
or
Compare how nature is presented in 'The Prelude’ and one other poem.