In this resource I have planned a series of lessons that help students complete the 24 mark question on the poem: ‘On A Portrait for A Deaf Man’. I have also included a lesson on the unseen comparative poetry section, comparing ‘On A Portrait of Aa Deaf Man’ to ‘Praise Song For My Mother’. The resource contains a sample question, high quality model answers and an answer template to help support students approach this section of the exam, all written by an experienced GCSE Literature examiner. Additionally, I have added a version of the slide for students to add their notes, which allows them to complete the tasks without the preplanned answers.

This resource is designed to help students revise for the Unseen Poetry. It encourages them to focus on the assessment objectives, to practise writing topic sentences for sample questions and to plan essays.

This lesson breaks down the approach to the Poetry Comparison question (AQA's Literature Paper 2, 30 marker) into simple chunks. It starts off by explaining the assessment objectives and then moves on to a sample question. This resource is particualrly uselful for those students who struggle to think of conceptualised points, as it includes topic sentences and model paragraphs which will help students create a detailed and sophiticated comparative response to poetry.

This resource has been planned to teach in a mixed ability group work setting. The resource is differentiated through the use of colour coded questions (green, blue and red), which increases the level of challenge. It also includes visual prompts, so that weaker ability students can access the poem and produce clear analysis. The more able students are pushed to produce more sophisticated and perceptive analytical commentary through the use of the more challenging ‘red’ questions. I have also included detailed anlaysis of key quotaions from the poem to model the expectations for able students, which is written by an experienced GCSE Literature examiner.