Theresa Sowerby | Monday November 11, 2019
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, OCR A Level, OCR A Level Pre-2015 Resources, OCR A Level English Literature, F661, Hot Entries, Poetry, Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Writing, Analytical Writing, Literary Analysis, Poetry Analysis
click on image to enlarge Guide Navigation Introduction and Biography | Features of Dickinson’s Style | Themes and Subject Matter | Poem by Poem Analysis | Sample Answer Contents Introduction and Biography Features of Dickinson’s Style Themes and Subject Matter Poem by Poem Analysis of 10 Poems Sample Answer Introduction and Biographical Context Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA on 10th December 1830. Her father, Edward Dickinson was a lawyer and highly…
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Russell Carey | Wednesday October 07, 2015
Categories: KS4, OCR GCSE, OCR GCSE English Literature 2015, Component 02: Exploring Poetry and Shakespeare, Component 02: Exploring Poetry and Shakespeare Schemes, Hot Entries, Poetry, Agard, Flag, Bhatt, Partition, Blake, A Poison Tree, Clarke, Lament, Dharker, Honour Killing, Dickinson, There’s a Certain Slant of Light, Douglas, Vergissmeinnicht, Hardy, The Man He Killed, Heaney, Blackberry Picking, Punishment, Lamb, Envy, Levertov, What Were They Like?, Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Disabled, Shapcott, Phrase Book, Wordsworth, Boat Stealing, Writing, Poetry Analysis
Guide Navigation OCR GCSE English Literature Component 02: Exploring Poetry and Shakespeare Assessment Pack Introduction This resource makes reference to the exam board’s published specification, poetry anthology (Towards a World Unknown) and sample assessment materials. At the time of writing this resource, there have been no live materials. The first question papers will be taken in the summer of 2017. When working with particular year groups, teachers should refer to the relevant year’s…
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Adrian Bower | Wednesday June 24, 2015
Categories: KS4, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Literature 2015, Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry, Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry Schemes, Hot Entries, Poetry, Anthologies, Armitage, The Manhunt, Blake, London, Brooke, The Soldier, Browning, Sonnet 43, Dharker, Living Space, Dickinson, As Imperceptibly as Grief, Dove, Cozy Apologia, Duffy, Valentine, Hardy, A Wife in London, Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Hughes, Hawk Roosting, Keats, To Autumn, Larkin, Afternooons, Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty, Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est, Sheers, Mametz Wood, Shelley, Ozymandias, Wordsworth, The Prelude, Writing, Poetry Analysis
Guide Navigation WJEC Eduqas GCSE Eng Lit Component 1: Poetry Anthology Scheme Lessons 1-9 WJEC Eduqas GCSE Eng Lit Component 1: Poetry Anthology Scheme Lessons 10-17 WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Literature Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry Assessment Pack GCSE Overview This guide contains ideas and resources for teaching the poems in the Eduqas anthology. The anthology is examined in Eduqas GCSE English Literature for teaching from September 2015. The anthology is assessed in paper 1, entitled…
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Paul Merrell | Tuesday December 03, 2013
Categories: Hot Entries, Poetry, Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Writing, Analytical Writing, Poetry Analysis, OCR A Level English Literature, F661, KS5 Archive, OCR A Level
click on image to enlarge Introduction In theory, answering Section A – the Poetry question – of F661 should be a fairly straightforward affair. After all, the pupils have had the opportunity to prepare the poems in advance and, as the life of the specification rolls on, the number of potential poems left to be chosen decreases. Likewise, the actual poem is published for the pupils in the examination – there are no hours upon countless hours of ‘quotation memorization’ required.…
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Theresa Sowerby | Monday September 03, 2012
Categories: Poetry, Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Writing, Analytical Writing, Literary Analysis, Poetry Analysis, OCR A Level English Literature, F661, KS5 Archive, OCR A Level
Guide Navigation Introduction and Biography | Features of Dickinson’s Style | Themes and Subject Matter | Poem by Poem Analysis | Sample Answer A Selection of Poems Based on the requirements of OCR unit F661. Note: individual analyses with potential links with other poems marked in blue. Contents Poem 258: There’s a certain Slant of Light Poem 280: I felt a Funeral in my Brain Poem 341: After great pain, a formal feeling comes Poem 465: I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – Poem 501:…
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