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This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Edexcel Belonging Cluster: ‘To My Sister’; ‘Sunday Dip’; ‘Mild the Mist Upon the Hill’; ‘Captain Cook (To My Brother)’; ‘Clear and Gentle Stream’; ‘I Remember, I Remember’; ‘Island Man’; ‘We Refugees’; ‘Peckham Rye Lane’; ‘Us’; ‘In Wales, wanting to be Italian’; ‘Kumukanda’; ‘Jamaican British’; ‘My Mother’s Kitchen’; and ‘The Émigrée’.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource, ‘Island Man’
Two detailed lessons exploring 'To My Sister’ by William Wordsworth from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Mild the Mist Upon the Hill’ by Emily Brontë from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'An Easy Passage’ by Julia Copus from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature.
The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Out of the Bag’ by Seamus Heaney from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature.
The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A three page document for revising A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams for Edexcel AS English Literature.
Includes:
Topic and character revision points
Key terminology for revision
An exemplar introduction and paragraph for an AS style question
Will support those students aiming for very high grades.
This is a revision resources for the GCSE English Literature text, Lord of the Flies. There are fourteen quotations from across the text, each in the middle of an A3 sheet. Students should annotate the quotations, pulling out techniques, effects and contextual links.
Suitable for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas specifications.
A five page guide to planning and revising for the Prose question in Edexcel English Literature Paper 2.
Guides students through:
How to approach a past question
A list of past questions
Contextual revision points
Form and structural revision points
A sample response
An A/A* checklist for those who are aiming for the top grades
Every year, my students consistently achieve very high grades in their A Level, so I hope you will find this useful!
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Worlds and Lives cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
Please check out my individual PowerPoints for each of the poems in the Worlds and Lives Cluster: Worlds and Lives Individual PowerPoints
This simple document will guide students through researching key contextual points relating to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
You could set this as a homework task or a lesson activity. Students are required to research using the internet.
Suitable for Key Stage Three, or for GCSE.
Two detailed lessons exploring Grace Nichols’ ‘Hurricane Hits England’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with thorough annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Elizabeth Jennings’ ‘Absence’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
This is a visual and creative resource for planning the creative/narrative/descriptive writing question for GCSE English Language. The document encourages students to focus on the key assessment foci. It can be used early in the topic or as a revision resource. Lesson plan included!
A detailed A3 knowledge organiser for the GCSE and A Level English Literature text, Jane Eyre. Useful for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas. I have also included a blank copy for students to fill in. I would suggest giving students the blank copy before providing the populated version.
A detailed A3 knowledge organiser for the GCSE and A Level English Literature text, The Merchant of Venice. Useful for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas. I have also included a blank copy for students to fill in. I would suggest giving students the blank copy before providing the populated version.
A detailed A3 knowledge organiser for the GCSE English Literature text, Lord of the Flies. Useful for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas. I have also included a blank copy for students to fill in. I would suggest giving students the blank copy before providing the populated version.
This is a quick and easy poetry worksheet resource to encourage students to focus on the effects of poetry quotations rather than just feature spotting. After an initial focus on ‘My Last Duchess’, students consider a set of quotations, one from each poem in the cluster, in response to a prompt. Lesson plan included!
Contains 15 short quotation cards from Lord of the Flies for student analysis. One card completed for modelling purposes. Instructions for analysis attached and the activity can take a whole lesson. These are quotations which can be easily learned for the examination.
Includes a follow up analysis grid to build on student understanding in a subsequent lesson. Lesson plan with suggestions and learning objectives included.
Suitable for Edexcel, AQA and Eduqas GCSE English Literature specifications.
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Power and Conflict cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Power and Conflict cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.