Are you teaching Jackie Kay’s Darling: New and Selected Poems to your A-level students? Don’t know where to start? This scheme of work shows you how I teach the 32 poems (organised by theme) and essay questions for each section we cover.

FULL ANSWER KEY INCLUDED! Get pupils excited about Indian Ink, and prepare them to score top marks in the process with this 65-page engaging workbook! Have pupils work through the activities and questions as you study Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink. WORKBOOK CONTENT: Assessment Objectives Marking Criteria (CAIE) Assessment objective 5 suggestions and notes pages Literary lenses and notes pages How to develop drama analysis Story summary Contextual information Key things to know and Indian Ink Character overview Character analysis guiding questions Character analysis pages for all major characters Minor character analysis Thematic concerns Themes tracker Symbols introduction Symbols tracker Act one analysis questions Act two analysis questions Indian Ink exam questions Made for the Cambridge (CAIE) 9695 syllabus. However, it can be adapted for any course! HOW I SPLIT THE SCENES: Since we will all be using different texts, I thought it best to share the first line of each scene to help you save time! 1.1 ACT ONE Dusk. FLORA sits alone on a moving train. 1.2 The Shepperton garden is now visable. Here, MRS SWAN and PIKE are having tea while occupied with a shoebox of Flora’s letters. 1.3 FLORA: ‘So far, India likes me. My lecture drew a packed house, Mr. C’s house, in fact…’ 1.4 FLORA: ‘Then I met my painter…’ 1.5 FLORA: (Recorded) Yes, I am in heat like a bride in a bath,… 1.6 Anish stands up at the approach of Mrs Swan who comes from the bungalow with tea for two on a tray, and two kinds of cake. 1.7 Flora and Das sit at the table with lemonade. 1.8 We have already heard the horse. We do not see the horse. 1.9 Flora waves and turns aside. She sits at her table and starts to write. 1.10 FLORA: (Recorded) ‘…Yes, think of a woman in a blue dress…’ 1.11 FLORA: Thank you Nazrul … And two kinds of cake! 1.12 Pike enters dressed for India. He is staying at the best hotel in Jummapur… 1.13 DAS: Thank you. (He lights a cigarette.) You were writing to your sister? 1.14 Das leaves the bedroom and goes along the verandah towards the servants’ quarters and disappears round the corner. 1.15 Das enters the bedroom. DAS: (Approaching the bed Should I pour the water for you? 2.1 ACT TWO The Jummapur Club after sundown. 2.2 FLORA: ‘My suitor-I suppose I must call him that…’ 2.3 The scene becomes exterior. The actors remain astride the gym horses. 2.4 *Dilip and Pike are in the garden/courtyard of the Jummapur Palace Hotel… * 2.5 RAJAH Entering The spiritual beauty of Jummapur has been increased a thousandfold by your presence, Miss Crewe! 2.6 PIKE: Augustus de Boucheron enjoyed brief celebrity as a millionaire philanthropist and patron of the arts. 2.7 Mrs Swan and Anish are sitting in the garden with gin-and-tonic.Mrs Swan is looking at the watercolour. 2.8 Nirad Das and Coomaraswami are sit 2.9 PIKE AND 2.10

This is a 5-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s Brendon Gallacher poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing. YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF

This is a 7-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s Plague poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing. YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF

This is a 5-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s Love Nest poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing. YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF

A range of questions on all 15 GCSE poems! The Thought-Fox The Jaguar The Horses Wind Relic Hawk Roosting Cat and Mouse Snowdrop The Harvest Moon Football at Slack Roe-Deer A Memory Telegraph Wires Anniversary The Other CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE 0475 / 0992 style exam format, but can be used/adjusted for ANY examining body!

A comprehensive (63 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s Telegraph Wires. Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

A comprehensive (92slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s Hawk Roosting Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

A comprehensive (77slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s The Harvest Moon Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

This is a 5-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s My Grandmother’s Houses poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination!

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A comprehensive (93 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s The Thought Fox. Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

A comprehensive (98 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s The Horses. Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question (with suggested answers!) to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

A comprehensive (89 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s A Memory. Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question (with suggested answers!) to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

A comprehensive (87 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s The Jaguar. Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

A comprehensive (66 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s Snowdrop. Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

A comprehensive (65 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s Relic. Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

A comprehensive (101 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s Wind. Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question (with suggested answers!) to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870

A comprehensive (95 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s Football at Slack. Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams! PPT includes: The poem A summary of its content The themes encountered A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme An essay question to help you practice! Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870