PRAISE SONG FOR MY MOTHER by Grace Nichols SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 1 IGCSE Literature 0486/O-Level (CIE) CONTENTS 6 IGCSE Exam-Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response (826 Words) 1 Worksheet (6 pages) short critical questions for understanding literary terms identified 1 imaginative writing task with themes, tone, and mood

This resource gives a table of literary devices for each line in the poem and 900 words model essay on Harrison’s poem From Long Distance for IGCSE Exam practice and peer assessment to understand the standards for a good grade.

MY PARENTS by Stephen Spender SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 1 IGCSE Literature 0486/O-Level (CIE) CONTENTS 5 IGCSE Exam-Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response (878 words) 1 Worksheet (6 pages) short critical questions for understanding literary terms identified 1 imaginative writing task with themes, tone, and mood

LOVE(III) by George Herbert IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) from SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 2 CONTENTS 1 Model Response in 912 words 5 IGCSE Exam Style Questions for Practice LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use the five carefully worded IGCSE style questions in your school exams to assess your students. • Begin a discussion on what a good response looks like and how to present the thoughts for A* grade in IGCSE board examination. • Ask your students to highlight the points of view and good parts in a paragraph and see if they have similar thoughts or ideas. • Ask how they differ or how they find it similar. • Ask what aspects of the model response they like and how they can try such a response in the exam. • Discuss the strength of the essay's PETER/PEE/PQC structure. • You will see your students get confident in an hour class with this but after understanding the poem taught by you.

Check this list of 60 film terminolgy/conventions that help analyse the film posters. Term-Definition-Effect on the audience-Example. Useful worksheet to use in the classroom to teach film analysis or film poster in a unit.

Passion by Kathleen Raine IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 2 CONTENTS 4 IGCSE Exam Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 987 words LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use the four carefully worded IGCSE style questions in your school exams to assess your students. • Begin a discussion on what a good response looks like and how to present the thoughts for A* grade in IGCSE board examination. • Ask your students to highlight the points of view and good parts in a paragraph and see if they have similar thoughts or ideas. • Ask how they differ or how they find it similar. • Ask what aspects of the model response they like and how they can try such a response in the exam. • Discuss the strength of the essay’s PETER/PEE/PQC structure. • You will see your students get confident in an hour class with this but after understanding the poem taught by you.

SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 1 -Part 5 96 IGCSE and O level Exam-Style Questions for 2017-2019 A QUESTION BANK for Teachers and Students SET POEMS: Fleur Adcock, ‘For Heidi With Blue Hair’ James K Baxter, ‘Elegy For My Father’s Father’ Elizabeth Bishop, ‘One Art’ Boey Kim Cheng, ‘Reservist’ Emily Brontë, ‘Cold In The Earth’ Robert Browning, ‘Meeting At Night’ Emily Dickinson, ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’ Philip Larkin, ‘The Trees’ Charlotte Mew, ‘The Trees Are Down’ Grace Nichols, ‘Praise Song For My Mother’ Wilfred Owen, ‘Anthem For Doomed Youth’ Siegfried Sassoon, ‘Attack’ Stephen Spender, ‘My Parents’ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Song: Tears, Idle Tears’ Hone Tuwhare, ‘Friend’

A model essay in 750 words on the question: Explore how Peter Porter critically conveys the nature of life in the poem A Consumer’s Report.

For My Grandmother Knitting by Liz Lochhead_IGCSE Exam Style Questions_Model Response-Essay For IGCSE Literature 0486 (CIE) from SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 2 CONTENTS 5 IGCSE Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 1062 words A Grad-Band 1 Response LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use the five carefully worded IGCSE style questions in your school exams to assess your students. • Begin a discussion on what a good response looks like and how to present the thoughts for A* grade in IGCSE board examination. • Ask your students to highlight the points of view and good parts in a paragraph and see if they have similar thoughts or ideas. • Ask how they differ or how they find it similar. • Ask what aspects of the model response they like and how they can try such a response in the exam. • Discuss the strength of the essay's PETER/PEE/PQC structure. • You will see your students get confident in an hour class with this but after understanding the poem taught by you.

She was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 2 CONTENTS 7 IGCSE Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 921 words LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use the seven carefully worded IGCSE style questions in your school exams to assess your students. • Begin a discussion on what a good response looks like and how to present the thoughts for A* grade in IGCSE board examination. • Ask your students to highlight the points of view and good parts in a paragraph and see if they have similar thoughts or ideas. • Ask how they differ or how they find it similar. • Ask what aspects of the model response they like and how they can try such a response in the exam. • Discuss the strength of the essay's PETER/PEE/PQC structure. • You will see your students get confident in an hour class with this but after understanding the poem taught by you.

The Lost Woman... by Patricia Beer IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 2 CONTENTS 5 IGCSE Exam Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 1020 words LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use five carefully worded IGCSE style questions in your school exams to assess your students. • Begin a discussion on what a good response looks like and how to present the thoughts for A* grade in IGCSE board examination. • Ask your students to highlight the points of view and good parts in a paragraph and see if they have similar thoughts or ideas. • Ask how they differ or how they find it similar. • Ask what aspects of the model response they like and how they can try such a response in the exam. • Discuss the strength of the essay's PETER/PEE/PQC structure. • You will see your students get confident in an hour class with this but after understanding the poem taught by you.

Stabat Mater by Sam Hunt IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 2 CONTENTS 5 IGCSE Exam Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 920 words LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use the five carefully worded IGCSE style exam questions in your school exams to assess your students. • Begin a discussion on what a good response looks like and how to present the thoughts for A* grade in IGCSE board examination. • Ask your students to highlight the points of view and good parts in a paragraph and see if they have similar thoughts or ideas. • Ask how they differ or how they find it similar. • Ask what aspects of the model response they like and how they can try such a response in the exam. • Discuss the strength of the essay's PETER/PEE/PQC structure. • You will see your students get confident in an hour class with this but after understanding the poem taught by you.

Father Returning Home by Dilip Chitre IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 2 CONTENTS 8 IGCSE Exam Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 1078 words LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use the eight carefully worded IGCSE style exam questions in your school exams to assess your students. • Begin a discussion on what a good response looks like and how to present the thoughts for A* grade in IGCSE board examination. • Ask your students to highlight the points of view and good parts in a paragraph and see if they have similar thoughts or ideas. • Ask how they differ or how they find it similar. • Ask what aspects of the model response they like and how they can try such a response in the exam. • Discuss the strength of the essay's PETER/PEE/PQC structure. • You will see your students get confident in an hour class with this but after understanding the poem taught by you.

Song by Lady Mary Wroth IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) from SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 2 CONTENTS 5 IGCSE Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 837 words LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use the five carefully worded IGCSE style questions in your school exams to assess your students. • Begin a discussion on what a good response looks like and how to present the thoughts for A* grade in IGCSE board examination. • Ask your students to highlight the points of view and good parts in a paragraph and see if they have similar thoughts or ideas. • Ask how they differ or how they find it similar. • Ask what aspects of the model response they like and how they can try such a response in the exam. • Discuss the strength of the essay's PETER/PEE/PQC structure. • You will see your students get confident in an hour class with this but after understanding the poem taught by you.

Songs of Ourselves Volume 2 : 77 IGCSE Exam Style Questions and 14 Model Responses: A Study Guide (on 14 Set Poems for 2016-2018) 14 Model Responses and 77 IGCSE Exam Style Questions Inside Volume: 72 Pages ISBN-13: 978-1522922780 This Study Guide caters to the students of IGCSE Literature (0486) preparing for Paper 1 (Poetry Component on Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 1) There are two particular uses of this study guide. First, this Study Guide aims to help the students and teachers to familiarise with possible IGCSE Exam Style Question Stems on 14 Set Poems. A total of 77 questions carefully phrased in this book help students to practise on possible question stems that may appear in IGCSE Board Examination. Teachers can use these questions in school examinations to familiarise the pupils with IGCSE exam wording and phrasing of the questions. Second, the book provides 14 Model Responses; one response on each poem. Studying these 14 essays enables the students to learn the main ideas in each poem and certain stylistic techniques used by the poets. These essays are also written following PETER/PEEP/PQC structure that is practised and most suggested in schools. In fact, these essays can be considered as samples to develop students own style of essay writing skills; varying the ideas and views based on the question stems asked in IGCSE Board Examination. Set Poems are: William Blake, ‘Clod and Pebble’ Lady Mary Wroth, ‘Song’ Kathleen Raine, ‘Passion’ George Herbert, ‘Love’ John Donne, ‘Love’s Infiniteness’ William Wordsworth, ‘She was a Phantom of delight’ Emma Jones, ‘Tiger in the Menagerie’ Amanda Chong, ‘Lion Heart’ Edith Sitwell, ‘Heart and Mind’ Liz Lochhead, ‘For my Grandmother Knitting’ Dilip Chitre, ‘Father Returning Home’ Patricia Beer, ‘The Lost Woman’ Owen Sheers, ‘Coming Home’ Sam Hunt, ‘Stabat Mater’

RESERVIST by Boey Kim Cheng For IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 1 CONTENTS 9 IGCSE Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 1042 words 1WORKSHEET (6 pages) 1 Imaginative Writing Task short critical questions for understanding literary terms identified with themes, tone and mood

King Henry V by William Shakespeare 69 IGCSE Exam Style Questions for Practice A Question Bank For IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) Paper 2 CONTENTS 69 IGCSE Exam Style Questions 59 Passage Based Questions 10 Critical Essay Questions 26 Significant Moments/Passages identified and indicated

IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 1 CONTENTS 3 IGCSE Exam Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 1094 words Critical Comments Band 1 Response

An annotated copy of the poem to understand basic ideas in the poem.

The aim of this activity/exercise was to help the student to learn to write varied expressions in the essays to replace the original words in the poems. Teachers must notice that students tend to use the same words from the poems quite often in the essays; which is not a good sign but it can be overcome if they are given this kind of exercise. Definitely, students will understand the importance of using different expressions or synonyms in the essay to make it better for a higher credit from the examiners. Some words in the resource may not suit in the context of the poems but many are truly useful and effective. Consider that part ...