Before You Were Mine

Love and Relationships

15 fully-adaptable PowerPoints covering each of the Love and Relationship poems in the AQA English Literature GCSE Poetry Anthology. Suitable for those students aiming for grades 7-9. Each PowerPoint contains: 1. AQA Assessment objectives for the poetry anthology examination paper 2. A brief biography of the poet 3. A link to an audio reading of the poems and a listening task before reading 4. A list of high-level terminology for each poem as required for higher grades, and as a 'way-in' to the poems 5. A pyramid of critical questions which moves from knowledge to evaluation as a way of stretching higher students’ thinking, rather than you simply offering didactic teaching/leading questions 6. A copy, or link to a copy of the poem (due to copyright of some poems; you can easily copy and paste into PowerPoint) 7. A student sheet which can be printed off or projected onto the board as a structure to record ideas whilst working through critical questions 8. A short plenary Followed by: Teacher notes -two/three slides containing ideas for understanding each poem and its methods at a high level which you should likely read before the lesson as preparation for discussion and teaching. How much you ‘teacher-lead’ using these notes, or whether you use them to aid independent learning is up to you. Notes are not definitive, but offer good-grounding in understanding poets' use of method in the poems, with detail on structure and form as well as language in order to reach higher grades. *NEW: THREE PAGE LESSON PLAN ON HOW TO USE EACH SLIDE INCLUDING KEY QUESTIONS, LEARNING AND OUTCOMES* The lessons presume that some previous learning has taken place on what language, form and structure mean, and that students have a good level of understanding of what questions they should ask of poems in order to explore them (e.g. when was it written? how might that influence language choices? is there a specific form? what relevance is the form? how is the poem’s narrative structured and why? etc.) You can find revision posters for your students nearer exam time here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/love-and-relationships-revision-12183742 Kind regards, Englbee x