Edexcel GCSE English Literature Time and Place Poetry Comparisons Booklet

Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Literature (9-1) Poetry Anthology

This resource allows for a number of things:

• Students to plan out as many essays they want with all the anthology poems
• Students to develop their skills in poetry essay planning
• Students will learn how to structure their poetry essays with the simple and easy SPITT, a skill to be uses in both seen and unseen poetry

This booklet contains a structure for a poem comparison essay, SPITT, and it is fully explained. The booklet then provides students with a grid symbolising the crossover of every poem in the anthology. Students can use this grid to make links and connections between the themes and devices used in each poem. Students can also use the grid to keep track what essay plans they have done. The pages that follow allow students to plan out comparative essays between two poems. You can set them the task of writing a plan for every combination of two poems (the grid can be used to track this) or you can give them the poems to compare and they can use the planning grids.

Providing your student with this booklet will ensure they have harnessed and developed the planning skills they need. It will also allow them to become extremely familiar with the anthology. PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT.

Check out my other resources for booklets that aid students in making ‘poetry profiles’ for their anthology poems and identifying devices used in their anthology poems!