Unseen Poetry Session AQA

This session explains what is required of students in the final section of AQA Literature Paper 2. It incorporates an activity advised at the AQA Hub Meeting, where students work in groups to produce a poster based on a poem displayed on the wall - however, only one student is allowed to visit the poem at a time. The student should then bring back key words, images, methods, etc., to add to the poster. The posters are then presented to the class, or if in a bigger group, to another group of students. This effectively conveys the message that all responses are appropriate and that everyone can access a poem in some way. This could be run in a Hall with multiple students, in a classroom or as small group intervention.

Th second part of the lesson covers the comparison question, making sure that students understand to only write about methods. It includes a writing frame and modelled examples using the AQA endorsed structure of ‘both, both, however’. This lesson could easily be repeated again and again with different poems.