Pupils complete the booklet on their own, under exam conditions. This results in pupils studying a range of conflict/war poems and an essay on the poem Futlity. This task can also be combined with the futile nature of conflict in Romeo and Juliet- AQA Literature Controlled Assessment.

Based on The Poems From Different Cultures Anthology.

Detailed, lots of tasks for pupils and AFL

Resources can be found on TES too.

PPT with images to go with the poem

Ready to use Powerpoint presentation to help pupils use verbs to improve their descriptive writing. Lesson was awarded 'Outstanding'.

Students write examples of poetic devices from the poems they have studied in their tables and then refer to the effect of these examples and which devices are used. Printable and ready to use.

Based on The Poems From Different Cultures Anthology.

A copy of Hurricane Hits England by Grace Nichols that has annotations with a variety of poetic techniques and devices for students to match to the text. Great GCSE poetry revision. Based on The Poems From Different Cultures Anthology.

Pupils can create their own Roald Dahl type of creature using the activities in this powerpoint.

Activity for higher level pupils

Fun starter to exercise students' memory and introduce them to new vocabulary words. Culminates in a descriptive writing exercise.

Based on The Poems From Different Cultures Anthology.

Powerpoint to help pupils gain insight into the play.

I made this video to help pupils see the poem from my own perspective. With poetry, all of us have our own ideas so if you dont feel the images/music go with the poem then please do not make a negative comment. Poetry is written to reach out to us in different ways. I hope you find it useful- my last year 11s loved it! CAN YOU ALSO RATE OR LEAVE A COMMENT. Thanks- it's nice to know if others have found my resource useful.

Poems from the Duffy, Armitage and Pre1914 Anthology.

Will help pupils undersand the thinking behind the characters

Poems from the Duffy, Armitage and Pre1914 Anthology.

Can be used as an answer for the character tree activity OR on its own to help pupils think about the characters

With this very basic explanation of how to include it in their writing.