Power and Conflict scheme containing bespoke comparative mini unit. Created by AQA Examiner/HoD

This is a bespoke, outstanding scheme of learning catered to students specifically wanting to achieve the best possible grades in their Power and Conflict examination.
This has been created from my 15 years of being a Director of English at a prestigious private school and six years as an AQA examiner.
An engaging, high quality powerpoint with a range of fun activities and exercises to stretch and challenge the more able and are differentiated.

This resource contains:

• Engaging, high quality powerpoints a range of fun and challenging activities to challenge the more able to Grade 9 and beyond and differentiated support for less able students.
• All powerpoints contain a line-by-line breakdown of the poem with a specific focus on power and conflict, how each poet uses each technique and content related specifically for the examination.
• All lessons also contain contextual and historical information that is only specific to the poem as per the examination.

A very unique scheme, bespoke comparative lessons are embedded within every lesson but comparative lessons are also included for:

• Comparing Exposure and Charge of the Light Brigade and applying this to comparing other poems.
• A detailed lesson teaching students to compare Charge of the Light Brigade and The Emigree, a vital lesson in how to compare the same poem to another for different reasons.
• Comparative lesson for War Photographer and Remains.
• A model essay response on how to compare Remains and Poppies.
• Resources to help students develop comparative links between all 15 poems.
• Worksheets to help students compare any two poems with prompts and examples.
• An introduction to comparing poems with a focus on comparing London and Ozymandias

Detailed, high-quality lessons are included for all 15 poems:

• London by William Blake
• The Emigree by Carol Rumens
• Remains by Simon Armitage
• War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy
• Checking Out Me History by John Agard
• The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Exposure by Wilfred Owen
• Poppies by Jane Weir
• Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker
• Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney
• Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland
• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
• Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes
• Extract From, The Prelude by William Wordsworth

EliteEnglishGCSE also sells these lessons and the comparison mini unit separately on TES.

These resources include a range of engaging yet challenging exercises for all students to achieve and are already a proven hit in the classroom!