Grade 9 Bayonet Charge Lesson (With Comparison to Remains)

This lesson covers key content for the poem, four carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes.

Quotes include:

“his bloody life in my bloody hands.”
“hearing bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out, pain itself, the image of agony”
“He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”

Works towards:
Compare the ways in which poets present ideas about war in Bayonet Charge and Remains.

Made for Poetry and COnflict Anthology, AQA GCSE curriculum.