A diverse, engaging and challenging unit focused upon both literary heritage and contemporary relationships poetry! This unit has been created specifically to intigrate KS4 skills into the KS3 curriculum to prepare students for the rigors of the new 100% exam GCSE specification. With these poems now removed from the GCSE English Literature specification, it allows them to continued to be enjoyed by both students and teachers. The eight poems are divided into four pairs to provide students with a choice of comparisons; persuasive writing is also featured in the unit and linked to the unseen poetry part of the end-of-unit exam. This exam tests both reading and writing skills and is styled upon the 2017 GCSE Specifications for English Language and English Literature.
This detailed and high quality unit includes:
* 18 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies)
* 94 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons)
* All resources and worksheets (11 sheets)
* Anthology of poems to be given to students (with theme comparison grid)
* Copies of poems annotated in detail for teacher use
* Homework project (6 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills
* End-of-unit reading/writing exam
* End-of-unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 4-7, with GCSE 1-9 coversion)
Unit's lessons include:
* Poetic terms 'speed dating' to introduce vocabulary needed for poetry analysis
* Reading and discussing each poem with students annotating their copies
* Exploring heritage poems - 'Sonnet 116'; 'The Farmer's Bride'; 'Sister Maude'; 'Nettles'
* Exploring contemporary poems - 'The Manhunt'; 'Hour'; 'Quickdraw'; 'Brothers'
* Comparing two poems of students' choice
* Exploring unseen poetry skills - 'Strange Fruit' by Lewis Allen
* Features of writing to persuade match-up activity
* Writing to persuade - Room 101
* Huge 60-question revision quiz
* Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level)
* SPaG starter activities
* End-of-unit reading exam (GCSE English Language/Literature style)
* End-of-unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style)
* Teacher/peer/self assessment opportunities
This detailed and high quality unit includes:
* 18 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies)
* 94 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons)
* All resources and worksheets (11 sheets)
* Anthology of poems to be given to students (with theme comparison grid)
* Copies of poems annotated in detail for teacher use
* Homework project (6 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills
* End-of-unit reading/writing exam
* End-of-unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 4-7, with GCSE 1-9 coversion)
Unit's lessons include:
* Poetic terms 'speed dating' to introduce vocabulary needed for poetry analysis
* Reading and discussing each poem with students annotating their copies
* Exploring heritage poems - 'Sonnet 116'; 'The Farmer's Bride'; 'Sister Maude'; 'Nettles'
* Exploring contemporary poems - 'The Manhunt'; 'Hour'; 'Quickdraw'; 'Brothers'
* Comparing two poems of students' choice
* Exploring unseen poetry skills - 'Strange Fruit' by Lewis Allen
* Features of writing to persuade match-up activity
* Writing to persuade - Room 101
* Huge 60-question revision quiz
* Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level)
* SPaG starter activities
* End-of-unit reading exam (GCSE English Language/Literature style)
* End-of-unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style)
* Teacher/peer/self assessment opportunities
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Nice to have poems analysed, end of unit assessment and homework tasks but PPT is a waste. No activities included and the same learning outcome for each lesson
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