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I am an English teacher with over 16 years' experience. My high quality resources will save you time and offer creative and purposeful activities for your students.
For commissions, questions or feedback, please e-mail me at jpresourcesuk@gmail.com
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Love and Relationships cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Love and Relationships cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Conflict cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Conflict cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Relationships cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Relationships cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
A series of lessons to introduce students to the analysis of English Literature A Level novels through a practical criticism-style exercise with follow up lessons if required.
These resources could be used to introduce English Literature A Level at the start of Year 12 or as a taster lesson. The resources are not tied to any specification and do not reference any assessment objectives (although these are implied).
The following documents are included:
An extract booklet with eight short extracts from the opening of the following texts: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood; Persuasion by Jane Austen; Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter; Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie; The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett; Atonement by Ian McEwan; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
A teacher copy of the booklet with additional, contextual information
A task booklet with four different tasks to encourage analysis and connections (Task one is a ranking exercise; task two is an analysis exercise; task three is a connection exercise; and task four is a homework research exercise). Suggestions for other tasks are given
A lesson plan with guidance for one or more lessons
A revision lesson (or lessons if you want to do more with the initial card revision activity) for the Edexcel Belonging poetry anthology question for GCSE English Literature.
Students will use the enclosed resources to briefly revise the poems from the cluster before identifying the four or five key poems they should revise for the examination. This encourages analytical and evaluative connections. This is best used once the students know the poems well and understand the requirements of this question.
Included:
Blank revision cards for a starter activity which can be extended into a whole lesson activity (with one card modelled)
Poem linking and choice grid with eleven example exam questions
Lesson PowerPoint with 18 slides
Lesson plan with guidance as to how to adapt this activity across two lessons
Check out my individual Edexcel Belonging anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Belonging cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
Please check out my individual PowerPoints for each of the poems in the Worlds and Lives Cluster: Belonging Individual PowerPoints
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Belonging cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
Please check out my individual PowerPoints for each of the poems in the Belonging Cluster: Belonging Individual PowerPoints
This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Edexcel Belonging Cluster: ‘To My Sister’; ‘Sunday Dip’; ‘Mild the Mist Upon the Hill’; ‘Captain Cook (To My Brother)’; ‘Clear and Gentle Stream’; ‘I Remember, I Remember’; ‘Island Man’; ‘We Refugees’; ‘Peckham Rye Lane’; ‘Us’; ‘In Wales, wanting to be Italian’; ‘Kumukanda’; ‘Jamaican British’; ‘My Mother’s Kitchen’; and ‘The Émigrée’.
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
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.
If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource, ‘Island Man’
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Island Man’ by Grace Nichols 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!
I am offering this resource completely free so that you can try the quality of my poetry resources before you buy!
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!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Captain Cook (To My Brother)’ by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 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 'I Remember, I Remember’ by Thomas Hood 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!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Peckham Rye Lane’ by A.K. Blakemore 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!
