When We Two Parted
This two-lesson mini-unit of work explores Byron’s ‘When We Two Parted’ in detail. Designed to teach pupils studying the AQA GCSE English Literature Love and Relationships Anthology, this resource analyses the poem in depth and explains how to write a comparative essay in the exam.
The resource is made up of a 71-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and eight worksheets. The two lessons contain the following:
Lesson One
Making predictions – What do you think the poem is about?
Context – How knowledge of context helps us understand the poem in detail. Here we explore Lord Byron, the Byronic hero, the Romantic movement and the poem’s social and historical context – the age of revolution.
First Contact – An initial reading of the poem with a glossary included. A 2022 retelling of the narrative in modern prose. Comprehension questions with answers.
Exploring Meaning – Exploring key quotes and discussing them with comprehensive questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided.
Essay Writing – An essay question task to assess understanding. Includes model answers.
Lesson Two
Themes – Love and the end of a love affair, secrecy, abandonment, disillusion, fidelity, separation and pain and suffering.
Language – Exploring Byron’s use of archaic language, semantic fields and poetic techniques. A line by line annotation of the poem and comprehension questions with detailed answers.
Structure and Form – How Byron uses the lyric form, perspective, punctuation, rhyme and enjambment and how he uses a cyclical narrative.
The Exam – How to write a comparison essay with model responses.
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