This lesson aims to improve students’ skills in comparing and contrasting poems. Students learn how to understand the different ways that poetry can be compared, plan a well-structured comparative essay, and complete a detailed, organised, and sustained comparison. This lesson is most suitable for children preparing to sit GCSEs/ A Levels. Please note, the lesson should be used subsequent to students being taught poems, as I have left the poems to be compared up to the teacher, as opposed to specifying particular poems.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Understanding what features of poems can be compared (a comprehensive list is provided and utilised in the lesson);
- Comprehending how to structure comparative essays as a whole (using a specific formula, which has always formed a successful model for my previous students);
- Reading and analysing a model example of a comparative paragraph, in order to understand the key features within each paragraph of a comparative essay;
- Writing their own poetry comparison, using planning and success criteria that are formed over the lesson;
- Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial;
- Worksheets and resources for all activities;
- A model example;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to mixed-ability year 10 groups, but can be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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