Richard Gent | Friday September 30, 2022
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Poetry, Chaucer
Excerpt from The Introduction Geoffrey Chaucer wrote 'The Canterbury Tales' at the end of his life and career in the 1390s, the end of the C14th. He was a scion of the post conquest upper middle class, now integrated and 'modern' in the context of the time. He had been a soldier and diplomat and was later a royal servant and pension holder. He was married but lived apart from his wife for most of their married life. He wrote the Tales to amuse himself and his friends: it was…
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jennywebb | Thursday September 01, 2022
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, ELLB4, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB3, EDEXCEL A Level, Edexcel A Level Pre-2015 Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL02, Hot Entries, Poetry, Chaucer, Writing, Literary Analysis
Chaucer can be a daunting prospect for many 17-year-olds. His medieval 14th Century historical, cultural, religious and literary context is so far removed from anything else they have come across before; and the likelihood is that they will never have come across even his name in their earlier school career. By the time they hit A Level, Shakespeare is familiar territory, having been studied at GCSE and KS3 in most schools, but Chaucer remains a dark, mysterious figure, further back in the…
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Richard Gent | Thursday April 22, 2021
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Poetry, Jackie Kay, Jackie Kay CAIE
The works: these poems are taken from two anthologies: The second half of “The Adoption Papers’, entitled ‘Severe Gale 8’ (1991) and “Other Lovers” (1993). ‘From Stranraer South’ has been reserved our essay question. All you need to know: Encyclopedia.com “The Adoption Papers”: gives a detailed and comprehensive account of her life and its cultural context up to 1991. There is plenty more, including two very helpful reviews from…
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Ruth Owen | Wednesday December 16, 2020
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Literature A, LITA3, Drama, Analysing Drama, A Lady of Letters, Equus, Hamlet, King Lear, Measure For Measure, Othello, Hot Entries, Poetry, Brooke, The Soldier, Eliot, The Waste Land, Graves, Symptoms of Love, Hardy, The Going, Your Last Drive, Heaney, Mid-Term Break, Lamb, The First Tooth, Letts, The Deserter, Shakespeare, Sonnet 130, Prose, Enduring Love, Great Expectations, On Chesil Beach, Writing, Analytical Writing, Drama Analysis, Literary Analysis, Poetry Analysis, Prose Analysis
Guide Navigation Studying For The Exam Examples From Literature About The Exam Further Reading The Examination Symptoms of Love, Graves On Chesil Beach The First Tooth, Lamb The Deserter The Soldier, Brooke A Lady of Letters Sonnet 130, Shakespeare Measure for Measure Hamlet Othello King Lear Equus Great Expectations Enduring Love Mid-Term Break, Heaney Your Last Drive The Going The Waste Land, Elliot Studying For The Exam The title of this AQA A2 Unit is Reading for Meaning – Love…
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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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jennywebb | Monday November 11, 2019
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, ELLB3, EDEXCEL A Level, Edexcel A Level Generic Skills, Edexcel A Level Skills Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, 6ET03, OCR A Level, OCR A Level Pre-2015 Resources, OCR A Level English Literature, F663, WJEC A Level, WJEC A Level Pre-2015 Resources, WJEC A Level English Literature, LT4, Hot Entries, Poetry, Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale, Writing, Literary Analysis, Prose Analysis
click on image to enlarge Introduction When Chaucer is to be taught, then ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ is something a gift for an A Level student: it is short, simple and highly accessible; and yet it simultaneously offers a wealth of rich language for analysis. Themes including greed, death, betrayal and blasphemy are ripe for advanced level discussion and I have always found that, despite the 14th Century setting, the story is a universal one which students find easy to understand…
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Theresa Sowerby | Monday November 11, 2019
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Literature A, LTA1, EDEXCEL A Level, Edexcel A Level Pre-2015 Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL03, WJEC A Level, WJEC A Level Pre-2015 Resources, WJEC A Level English Literature, LT1, Hot Entries, Poetry, Eliot, The Waste Land
click on image to enlarge The following is not a detailed study guide to the whole text of The Waste Land but a number of suggestions about how to tackle this often truly exciting yet notoriously challenging text so as to enable students to answer effectively on it without becoming overwhelmed by real or preconceived difficulties. Introducing the Poem Readers will usually respond more fruitfully if they have some prior experience of Eliot’s poetry. If they are studying a range of the…
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Theresa Sowerby | Monday November 11, 2019
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, ELLB2, ELLB4, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB4, EDEXCEL A Level, Edexcel A Level Generic Skills, Edexcel A Level Skills Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, Edexcel A Level Pre-2015 Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, OCR A Level, OCR A Level Pre-2015 Resources, OCR A Level English Language & Literature, OCR A Level English Literature, Hot Entries, Poetry, Eliot, Portrait of a Lady, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, Preludes, Rhapsody on a Windy Night, Writing, Analytical Writing, Poetry Analysis
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A Guide to Reading Four Early Poems
Grouping The Poems - Key Features
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Paul Merrell | Monday November 11, 2019
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA1, AQA A Level English Literature A, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB1, EDEXCEL A Level, Edexcel A Level Generic Skills, Edexcel A Level Skills Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, 6ET01, Edexcel A Level Pre-2015 Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL03, OCR A Level, OCR A Level Pre-2015 Resources, OCR A Level English Literature, F661, WJEC A Level, WJEC A Level Pre-2015 Resources, WJEC A Level English Literature, LT1, Hot Entries, Poetry, Eliot, The Waste Land
click on image to enlarge I love teaching this text; in fact, I see it as one of the most versatile (and important) things that I deliver across all of my KS5 classes – be it A Level, Pre-U or on the IB. I know Eliot’s poetry appears in various forms across a wide range of specifications and courses, but I more often than not teach this poem as either a comparative coursework text or, more generally, as key AO4 information for any Modernist writer. I don’t know how, for…
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Theresa Sowerby | Monday November 11, 2019
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Literature A, LITA4, OCR A Level, OCR A Level Pre-2015 Resources, OCR A Level English Literature, F664, Hot Entries, Poetry, Donne, Selected Poems, Writing, Poetry Analysis
The following guide to Donne’s poems is designed to give examples both of close reading and of links between the poems. Contents The Sunne Rising The Apparition The Canonisation A Nocturnall upon St Lucie’s Day The Autumnall Biography and context The Metaphysical poets Approaching a Donne poem – A Valediction of Weeping Key Characteristics of Donne’s poetry Variety of Attitudes to love – connections and groupings A Closer Look at five love poems: Talking to God…
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Steph Atkinson | Friday April 26, 2019
Categories: KS4, EDEXCEL iGCSE, EDEXCEL iGCSE English Language, Paper 1 Reading and Writing, Paper 2 Reading and Writing, EDEXCEL iGCSE English Literature, Paper 1 Prose and Drama, Paper 2 Poetry Unseen, Hot Entries, Media & Non-Fiction, Analysing Media & Non-Fiction, Poetry, Anthologies, Pre-2015 Anthologies, Edexcel iGCSE Anthology, Prose, Writing, Analytical Writing, Literary Analysis, Non-Fiction Analysis, Media Analysis, Poetry Analysis, Prose Analysis
click on image to enlarge Overview and Guide to Grids for the Edexcel Anthology Texts These teaching grids can be used with any GCSE syllabus for which the analysis of non-fiction, media, poetry or prose is required. Whilst initially intended for those pupils sitting the Edexcel English Language and English Literature iGCSE / Certificates, they have been created to work across all exam boards and to be multi-purpose, hopefully providing a worthwhile and timesaving resource. A free copy of the…
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Richard Gent | Thursday November 22, 2018
Categories: KS4, 9-1 IGCSE, 9-1 IGCSE English Literature, IGCSE English Literature Edexcel, Hot Entries, Poetry
Our teaching materials are used in two thirds of the top schools. Our resources empower teachers to plan effectively, assess accurately and teach with confidence. As a non-subscriber you will be able to see a preview of the resources. To access them in full click on Subscribe now. Edusites resources for the Edexcel IGCSE 9-1 English Literature are intended to compliment the Edexcel resources available from the Edexcel website. To help teach this specification, and for your students to make…
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Shane Richardson | Wednesday November 21, 2018
Categories: KS4, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Literature 2015, Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry, Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry Schemes, Drama, Macbeth, Hot Entries, Poetry, Agard, Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Plays, Writing, Drama Analysis
Guide Navigation WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Literature Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry Assessment Pack GCSE Overview The qualification is made up of two externally-assessed components: Component 1 and Component 2. Both components allow learners to show their depth and breadth of knowledge through varied assessments. This specification has been designed on the basis that learners’ reading should be of whole texts. Learners are required to study the following content: at least one play by…
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Lauran Hampshire-Dell | Thursday September 21, 2017
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English Literature 2015, Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry , Poetry, Anthologies, AQA Anthology, AQA Power and Conflict Cluster
iyerm | Friday November 13, 2015
Categories: KS4, EDEXCEL GCSE, Edexcel GCSE English Literature 2015, Component 2: 19th Century Novel and Poetry since 1789, Component 2: 19th Century Novel and Poetry since 1789 Schemes, Hot Entries, Poetry, Anthologies, Edexcel Anthology, Edexcel Relationships Cluster, Armitage, The Manhunt, Baillie, A Child to His Sick Grandfather, Browning, Sonnet 43, Cooper-Clarke, I Wanna Be Yours, De Kok, My Father Would Not Show Us, Duffy, Valentine, Hadfield, Love’s Dog, Keats, Le Belle Dame sans Merci, Wordsworth, A Complaint, Zephaniah
Guide Navigation Edexcel GCSE English Literature Component 2: 19th-century Novel & Poetry since 1789 Assessment Pack Associated Resources Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology Sample Question Lesson 5.docx Qualification Aims and Objectives The aims and objectives of the Pearson Edexcel Level 1/ Level 2 GCSE (9–1) in English Literature are to enable students to: Read a wide range of classic literature fluently and with good understanding, and make connections across their reading; read in…
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Mia Sneyd | Wednesday October 21, 2015
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English Literature 2015, Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry , Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry Schemes, Hot Entries, Poetry, Agard, Checking Out Me History, Anthologies, AQA Anthology, AQA Power and Conflict Cluster, Armitage, Remains, Blake, London, Browning, My Last Duchess, Dharker, Tissue, Duffy, War Photographer, Garland, Kamikaze, Heaney, Storm on the Island, Hughes, Bayonet Charge, Owen, Exposure, Rumens, The Emigree, Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Shelley, Ozymandias, Weir, Poppies, Wordsworth, The Prelude, Writing, Poetry Analysis
This guide contains ideas and resources for teaching the poems in the ‘Power and Conflict’ cluster of the AQA Poems Past and Present anthology. The anthology is examined in AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) for teaching from September 2015. The anthology is assessed in Paper 2 (Modern Texts and Poetry) of the Literature examination. The duration of the paper is 2 hrs 15mins and it is a closed book examination. The paper as a whole is worth 60% of the GCSE. There are four questions on the…
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jallen | Wednesday October 14, 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, Blake, The Sick Rose, Burns, A Red Red Rose, Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken, Hannah, Symptoms, Kemp, I Sing the Battle, Sandburg, Sketch, Reading, Language Analysis, Understanding Structure, Understanding Vocabulary, Writing, Analytical Writing, Poetry Analysis
Associated Resources Worksheet 1.docx Worksheet 1 Level 1-3.docx Worksheet 2.docx Worksheet 3.docx Worksheet 4.docx Worksheet 5.docx Teacher’s Copy Worksheet 5.docx Success in the Unseen Poetry Section.pptx Unseen Poetry - Component 2 Section A Part A This scheme of work focuses upon the skills required for the unseen poetry question in section A of the paper. The Sample Questions at the end of the unit refer to the anthology poems so it is recommended that the pupils have studied at…
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jallen | Wednesday October 14, 2015
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English Literature 2015, Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry , Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry Schemes, Hot Entries, Poetry, Blake, The Sick Rose, Burns, A Red Red Rose, Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken, Hannah, Symptoms, Kemp, I Sing the Battle, Liz Lochhead, Poem for My Sister, Pastan, To A Daughter Leaving Home, Sandburg, Sketch, Reading, Language Analysis, Understanding Structure, Understanding Vocabulary, Writing, Analytical Writing, Poetry Analysis
Guide Navigation AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2: Modern Texts & Poetry Assessment Pack Associated Resources Worksheet 1.docx Worksheet 1 Level 1-3.docx Worksheet 2.docx Worksheet 3.docx Worksheet 4.docx Worksheet 5.docx Teacher’s Copy Worksheet 5.docx Success in the Unseen Poetry Section.pptx Unseen Poetry - Paper 2 Section C This scheme of work focuses upon the unseen poetry section of the paper. It is worth a total of 32 marks, with the whole paper being awarded up to 96 marks.…
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jallen | Tuesday October 13, 2015
Categories: KS4, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Literature 2015, Component 2: Prose, Drama and Unseen Poetry, Component 2: Prose, Drama and Unseen Poetry Schemes, Hot Entries, Poetry, Blake, The Sick Rose, Burns, A Red Red Rose, Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken, Gunn, Considering the Snail, Hannah, Symptoms, Kemp, I Sing the Battle, Morgan, A Gull, Sandburg, Sketch, Reading, Language Analysis, Understanding Structure, Understanding Vocabulary, Writing, Analytical Writing, Poetry Analysis
Associated Resources Worksheet 1.docx Worksheet 1 Level 1-3.docx Worksheet 2.docx Worksheet 3.docx Worksheet 4.docx Worksheet 5.docx Teacher’s Copy Worksheet 5.docx Success in the Unseen Poetry Section.pptx Unseen Poetry - Component 2 Part C This scheme of work focuses upon the unseen poetry section of the paper. It is worth a total of 40 marks, with the whole paper being awarded up to 120 marks. This section is worth 20% of the overall GCSE Literature percentage. Summary of the Exam The…
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jallen | Friday October 09, 2015
Categories: KS4, EDEXCEL GCSE, Edexcel GCSE English Literature 2015, Component 2: 19th Century Novel and Poetry since 1789, Component 2: 19th Century Novel and Poetry since 1789 Schemes, Hot Entries, Poetry, Blake, The Sick Rose, Burns, A Red Red Rose, Downie, Great Grandfather, Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken, Hannah, Symptoms, Kemp, I Sing the Battle, Sandburg, Sketch, Ware, On The Verge, Reading, Language Analysis, Understanding Structure, Understanding Vocabulary, Writing, Analytical Writing, Poetry Analysis, Textual Analysis
Guide Navigation Edexcel GCSE English Literature Component 2: 19th-century Novel & Poetry since 1789 Assessment Pack Associated Resources Worksheet 1.docx Worksheet 1 Level 1-3.docx Worksheet 2.docx Worksheet 3.docx Worksheet 4.docx Worksheet 5.docx Teacher’s Copy Worksheet 5.docx Success in the Unseen Poetry Section.pptx Unseen Poetry - Section B Part 2 This scheme of work focuses upon the unseen poetry section of the paper. It is worth a total of 20 marks, with the whole paper being…
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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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Richard Gent | Tuesday September 29, 2015
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Poetry, Chaucer
Lesson Plan Five Essay and Indicative Responses New PDF In this lesson we will look essay responses to the question posed in Lesson 4 and discuss what other questions could be posed. Question What do these extracts from the Merchants' encomium and Justinus's withering criticism of Januarie's intentions tell us about The Merchant and his attitudes to marriage and in the Tale? Do alway so as women will thee rede. Lo how that Jacob, as these clerkes read, By good counsel of his mother…
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Richard Gent | Tuesday September 29, 2015
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Poetry, Chaucer
Lesson Plan Four Testing Time Essay Activity New PDF Spend the lesson planning and writing your answer this question:- What do these extracts from the Merchants' encomium and Justinus's withering criticism of Januarie's intentions tell us about The Merchant and his attitudes to marriage and in the Tale? Do alway so as women will thee rede. Lo how that Jacob, as these clerkes read, By good counsel of his mother Rebecc' Bounde the kiddes skin about his neck; For which his…
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Richard Gent | Tuesday September 29, 2015
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Poetry, Chaucer
Lesson Plan Three His final lines form a sort of disclaimer: that the tale will not be connected to his own experience of marriage. That his head will rule his heart: but plainly it doesn't. In lesson three we will look at the points in the tale where his feelings inform and direct what the characters do and say. The learning objective is To understand the richness and variety of the narrative, which is, let us remember, a condemnation of wives and marriage. An important part of that variety…
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Richard Gent | Tuesday September 29, 2015
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Poetry, Chaucer
Lesson Plan Two This lesson is all about the first of the two aspects of the Tale we looked at last time: commerce, profit and the Merchant's number one priority of 'th'encrees of his wynnyng'. The learning objective is To see the extent to which the characters are driven by the lust for money as well as the lust of Januarie, Damyan and May for sex. And consequently their concern with appearances, which mask this and seem to want to imply conventional respectability, especially…
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Richard Gent | Monday September 28, 2015
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Poetry, Chaucer
Lesson Plan One In this lesson we will look at our introduction to the Merchant in the General Prologue and the Prologue to the Tale and then trace the ways in which commerce and commercial activity: the profit imperative, underpin the Tale itself. The learning objective is To develop our understanding of the ways in which the Merchant's own character and attitudes shape and colour the narrative and the big ideas he deals with. By the end of this lesson we should be able to answer the…
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Russell Carey | Wednesday June 24, 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, Anthologies, OCR Anthology, OCR Love and Relationships Cluster, Bronte, Love and Friendship, Browning, Now, Charlotte Mew, Fin de Fete, Derek Walcott, Love After Love, Duffy, Warming Her Pearls, Elizabeth Jennings, One Flesh, Hardy, A Broken Appointment, Jackie Kay, Dusting the Phone, James Fenton, In Paris With You, Keats, Larkin, An Arundel Tomb, Liz Lochhead, I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine, Plath, Morning Song, Thomas, The Sorrow of True Love , Tony Harrison, Long Distance II
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, 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 specification.…
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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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Shane Richardson | Tuesday June 16, 2015
Categories: KS4, EDEXCEL GCSE, Edexcel GCSE English Literature 2015, Component 2: 19th Century Novel and Poetry since 1789, Component 2: 19th Century Novel and Poetry since 1789 Schemes, Hot Entries, Poetry, Anthologies, Edexcel Anthology, Edexcel Conflict Cluster, Blake, A Poison Tree, Carson, Belfast Confetti, Casey, The Class Game, Clarke, Catrin, Hardy, The Man He Killed, Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Rossetti, Cousin Kate, Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Wordsworth, The Prelude, Zephaniah, No Problem, Writing, Poetry Analysis
Guide Navigation Edexcel GCSE English Literature Component 2: 19th-century Novel & Poetry since 1789 Assessment Pack Associated Resources How to Deconstruct a Poem.pdf Special Feature Card.docx How is this unit assessed? A 2 hour 15 minute written examination. It counts for 50% of the GCSE English Literature qualification. Overview of the Unit Content This unit asks students to study a 19th century novel and a poetry collection from the Pearson anthology. The Aims of the Unit This…
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Sarah Battams | Monday March 02, 2015
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English Literature 2015, Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry , Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry Schemes, Hot Entries, Poetry, Anthologies, AQA Anthology, AQA Love and Relationships Cluster, Writing, Poetry Analysis
Guide Navigation AQA GCSE Eng Lit Paper 2: Love and Relationships Anthology Scheme AQA GCSE Eng Lit Paper 2: Love and Relationships Anthology Lessons 1-8 AQA GCSE Eng Lit Paper 2: Love and Relationships Anthology Lessons 9-16 AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2: Modern Texts & Poetry Assessment Pack This guide contains ideas and resources for teaching the poems in the ‘Love and Relationships’ section of the AQA Poems Past and Present anthology. The anthology is examined in AQA GCSE…
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iyerm | Wednesday October 15, 2014
Categories: KS4, Poetry, Blake, The Sick Rose, Starters & Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development
This activity is taken from the Plenary in Lesson One of the Edexcel GCSE Eng Lit Component 2: Unseen Poetry Scheme. Decide on your Poem Choose a poem you are studying that you want the students to analyse. This scheme is looking at ‘The Sick Rose’ by William Blake. Draw some jigsaw puzzle pieces on the board and ask students to do the same in their books. Pose the question “What pieces make up ‘The Sick Rose’ puzzle?? Ask students to insert some of the possible meanings of…
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Steph Atkinson | Sunday August 31, 2014
Categories: Hot Entries, Poetry, Frost, Frost’s Selected Poems, Writing, Poetry Analysis, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB1, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
click on image to enlarge Overview These 9 commentaries on the poems of Robert Frost are intended to function in two ways: as generic sets of notes for teaching any of these poems at GCSE or A Level, and, predominantly, as teaching notes for the AQA AS level unit, LITB1, ‘Aspects of Narrative’. They can be used for both Section A and Section B of the LITB1 exam, since Frost can be used in either section. They focus on the following assessment objectives:AO1 - Articulate, creative, informed…
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Shane Richardson | Wednesday July 30, 2014
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, AQA English Literature, Unit 2 Poetry Across Time, Hot Entries, Poetry, Anthologies, Pre-2015 Anthologies, AQA Moon On The Tides, Writing, Poetry Analysis
Associated Resources AQA English Literature unit 2 mark scheme.pdf Introduction to The Relationship Cluster All of the poems in this cluster have been placed together because they share a common theme: that theme is relationships. Relationships are something of which we all have different experiences. Some relationships are very positive and help the people in those relationships to grow; others are more destructive and damage those involved in them. This cluster of poems in the AQA anthology…
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Paul Merrell | Thursday July 24, 2014
Categories: KS4, Cambridge iGCSE, Cambridge iGCSE English Literature, English Literature 0486, OCR GCSE, Hot Entries, Poetry, Hardy, Selection, Writing, Comparative Analysis, Comparing & Contrasting, Poetry Analysis
click on image to enlarge Introduction When you begin teaching the Cambridge IGCSE English Literature, you have a choice as to which texts your students will study in order to complete the poetry part of the examination. You can choose to teach a selection of poems by Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones ‘I Look into My Glass’ Drummer Hodge The Darkling Thrush On the Departure Platform The Pine Planters The Convergence of the Twain The Going The Voice At the Word ‘Farewell’ During Wind and Rain…
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Sarah Knightley | Friday June 27, 2014
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, OCR A Level, OCR A Level Pre-2015 Resources, OCR A Level English Literature, F663, Drama, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Hot Entries, Poetry, Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience, Writing, Drama Analysis
Guide Navigation Tis Pity She’s a Whore Lesson One, Two and Three Tis Pity She’s a Whore Lesson Four, Five and Six Tis Pity She’s a Whore Lesson Seven, Eight and Nine Tis Pity She’s a Whore Lesson Ten, Eleven and Twelve Tis Pity She’s a Whore Lesson Thirteen, Fourteen and Fifteen Tis Pity She’s a Whore Lesson Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen Tis Pity She’s a Whore Lesson Nineteen, Twenty and Twenty One Associated Resources OCR A Level English Literature Specification.pdf Exemplar…
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jrichardson | Tuesday April 29, 2014
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Literature A, LTA1, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB1, Drama, Journey’s End, Black’ell and Survivors, Hot Entries, Poetry, Kipling, My Boy Jack, Larkin, MCMXIV, Sassoon, Suicide in the Trenches , World War One, Writing, Drama Analysis, Poetry Analysis
click on image to enlarge Associated Resources World War One Literature Scheme of Work.docx Extract From Black’ell and Survivors.pdf Group Task One WWI What I Know.docx Resources for Exploring Wider Reading This resource is designed to expose students to a wide range of WW1 Literature, intending to give them a broad and useful understanding and appreciation of the texts and their context. The texts selected in this scheme of work focus on the Poetry and Drama wider reading requirements of…
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David Dunford | Friday April 04, 2014
Categories: Hot Entries, Poetry, Tennyson, Prose, Victorian Literature, Writing, Poetry Analysis, AQA A Level English Literature A, LTA1, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
click on image to enlarge Distant though the Victorian era may seem to most young people today, it is of enormous importance in being the origin of many of the things we now take for granted – in terms of technological development, changes in society and in attitudes and beliefs. It was a period of massive changes, which many people resisted or tried to ignore. Not surprisingly, many writers tried to draw the public’s attention to their significance.The effects of the Industrial Revolution;…
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David Dunford | Thursday April 03, 2014
Categories: Hot Entries, Poetry, Angelou, And Still I Rise, Duffy, Feminine Gospels, Sheers, Skirrid Hill, Writing, Literary Analysis, Non-Fiction Analysis, Poetry Analysis, AQA A Level English Literature A, LTA1, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
click on image to enlarge What is modern? Strictly since 1900, but most of the texts you study are more recent than that. Why then? It was the start of more general questioning of attitudes previously assumed to be true. (WW1 was a major catalyst). What attitudes?Race: White races superior to all others (and British to be chosen by God to lead the world). British Empire. (Also ethnic or tribal conflict in other areas). Gender: Men to be the breadwinners, the leaders in politics, church,…
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David Dunford | Wednesday April 02, 2014
Categories: Hot Entries, Poetry, World War One, Writing, Literary Analysis, Non-Fiction Analysis, Poetry Analysis, AQA A Level English Literature A, LTA1, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
click on image to enlarge There can be little doubt why so much has been – and continues to be - written about WW1, both at the time and in the nearly 100 years since it began. Perhaps the reasons can be divided into two groups. No conflict like it had ever occurred before:The numbers of people involved. The appalling conditions, particular on the Western Front. The growing sense of waste and futility. The loss of vast numbers, sometimes significant parts of a community, with few signs of…
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Theresa Sowerby | Tuesday April 01, 2014
Categories: Hot Entries, Narrative, Analysing Narrative, Narrative Techniques, Poetry, Keats, Lamia, Le Belle Dame sans Merci, The Eve of St Agnes, Writing, Poetry Analysis, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB1, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
click on image to enlarge This guide has been written with the requirements of AQA Specification B AS Unit 1 (LITB1): Asppects of Narrative in mind, but almost all of the materials could also be used for any study of Keats’s poems, e.g. for AS or A2 coursework or unseen poetry appreciation. Introduction The three set poems could be studied on many levels but, for the purpose of Unit 1, it is important that students keep their focus on the way Keats has used narrative, being aware of the…
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Paul Merrell | Tuesday April 01, 2014
Categories: Drama, The Rivals, Hot Entries, Poetry, Chaucer, The Wife of Bath’s Tale, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Writing, Comparing & Contrasting, Drama Analysis, Poetry Analysis, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, AQA A Level English Literature A, AQA A Level English Literature B, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, OCR A Level English Literature, F663, WJEC A Level English Language & Literature, WJEC A Level English Literature, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, EDEXCEL A Level, OCR A Level, WJEC A Level
click on image to enlarge The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale with Comparative Notes for Sheridan’s The Rivals Introduction This guide covers Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath, both the Prologue and Tale, and focuses of the A2 OCR unit F663, Section B – but the guide should prove very useful to anyone teaching these Chaucer texts for any other exam board. The OCR unit itself requires a comparison with another text, and in this guide, that text is Sheridan’s The Rivals – thus, teachers…
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Beth Kemp | Wednesday January 29, 2014
Categories: KS4, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, WJEC GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, WJEC GCSE English Literature, Unit 1 Prose and Poetry , Hot Entries, Poetry, Prose, Of Mice and Men, To Kill A Mockingbird, Writing, Analytical Writing, Poetry Analysis, Prose Analysis
click on image to enlarge Preparing Students for WJEC English Literature Paper 1: Different Cultures Prose and Contemporary Poetry Note: This guide refers to the current specification, being examined for the final time in 2014. This closed book examination assesses students’ understanding of a set “different cultures? text and their ability to analyse and compare a pair of unseen contemporary poems. The set prose texts for the “different cultures? aspect are: Of Mice and Men by John…
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Shane Richardson | Tuesday January 14, 2014
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Poetry, Agard, Flag, Anthologies, Armitage, Out of the Blue, Dharker, The Right Word, Hardi, At the Border, Minhinnick, The Yellow Palm, Sheers, Mametz Wood, Weir, Poppies, Writing, Analytical Writing, Comparative Analysis, Comparing & Contrasting, Poetry Analysis, AQA English Literature, Unit 2 Poetry Across Time, AQA Moon On The Tides
click on image to enlarge Guide Navigation 1. Introduction 2. Out of the Blue 3. Flag 4. Mametz Wood 5. The Yellow Palm 6. The Right Word 7. At the Border 8. Poppies 9. Exam Technique 10. Sample Exam Questions AQA Anthology Poems “Moon on the Tides: Conflict Cluster” Introduction to the Conflict Cluster All of the poems in this cluster have been placed together because they share a common theme: that theme is conflict. Each of the different poems, in their own ways, explores an…
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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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Laura Curran | Monday November 25, 2013
Categories: KS4, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, Hot Entries, Poetry, Writing, Analytical Writing, Literary Analysis, Poetry Analysis, WJEC GCSE English Literature, Unit 1 Prose and Poetry
Introduction This scheme of work addresses the skills required for Section B of the Unit 1 Literature examination. As the question remains the same each year, this unit is geared towards addressing the question, tackling each bullet point in the question and equipping the students with the skills to handle each bullet point. Where possible, resources have been included, but there are places where the poems themselves will be needed. Poems have been taken from previous exam…
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Beth Kemp | Sunday October 20, 2013
Categories: KS4, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, Poetry, Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Plays, Writing, Drama Analysis, Poetry Analysis, WJEC GCSE English Literature, Unit 3 Poetry and Drama
This Controlled Assessment can also be used for GCSE English. It requires students to study a Shakespeare play (any except Othello or Much Ado About Nothing) and a cluster of fifteen poems from the WJEC poetry anthology (poems are allocated to set clusters by the board, according to theme – this changes annually and is notified in advance, to allow for completion in year 10 for submission in year 11). The specification changes require students to demonstrate that they have studied the entire…
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Paul Merrell | Friday October 18, 2013
Categories: Drama, Analysing Drama, Hot Entries, Poetry, Prose, Analysing Prose, Writing, Analytical Writing, Drama Analysis, Literary Analysis, Poetry Analysis, Prose Analysis, Re-Creative Writing, OCR A Level English Literature, F662, KS5 Archive, OCR A Level
click on image to enlarge Introduction This is, by far, my favourite unit to teach across OCR’s A Level – and it is the one that, most fairly, seems to reward the hard work of the pupil. Whereas the F661 and F663 examination units can be, understandably, nerve-wracking affairs, and the F664 coursework requires a complex juggling act of a range of challenging texts, F662 feels pleasantly straightforward. What’s more, the fact it is worth 40% of your pupils’ marks makes it a unit for…
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Beth Kemp | Tuesday May 21, 2013
Categories: Drama, Analysing Drama, Hot Entries, Poetry, Prose, Analysing Prose, Writing, Analytical Writing, Comparative Analysis, Drama Analysis, Literary Analysis, Linguistic Analysis, Non-Fiction Analysis, Poetry Analysis, Prose Analysis, Speech Analysis, Transformative or Editorial Writing, Transcribed Conversations, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA3, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
Guide Navigation Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response ELLA3 Adaptation Checklist This pack is to be used in conjunction with the ELLA3 paper set in Jan 2013 (the first with the new set sections in Section B), currently available on…
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Steve Campsall | Wednesday May 15, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, EDEXCEL GCSE, Edexcel GCSE Generic Skills, Edexcel GCSE Skills Resources, OCR GCSE, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, Drama, Analysing Drama, Hot Entries, Poetry, Yeats, W.B. Yeats, Prose, Analysing Prose, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, AQA GCSE Generic Skills, AQA GCSE Skills Resources, Edexcel English Literature, Unit 1 Understanding Prose, OCR GCSE Generic Skills, OCR GCSE Skills Resources, WJEC GCSE English Literature, WJEC GCSE Generic Skills, WJEC GCSE Skills Resources
Teacher’s Note This guide has been tested successfully with students and gives them ways for them to develop a much deeper response to literature, with a particular, but not exclusive, focus on poetry. It also shows how to analyse at the levels of form, structure and language – the first two of which seem to cause near universal difficulties. The various elements within the guide can easily be adapted either for direct student use (i.e. as a stand-alone revision guide) or for classroom use,…
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Aimee Williams | Tuesday October 23, 2012
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, AQA English Literature, Unit 2 Poetry Across Time, Hot Entries, Poetry, Anthologies, Pre-2015 Anthologies, AQA Moon On The Tides, Writing, Analytical Writing, Poetry Analysis
Scheme AQA GCSE English Literature Unit 2 Relationships Cluster Scheme.docx Associated Resources Introduction Code Breaker.docx Intro.ppt Themes.docx Intro Poems.docx ‘Brothers’ by Andrew Forster Brothers.ppt Brothers Cloze.docx Brothers Timeline.docx Brothers Quiz.docx STIRRL.docx ‘Nettles’ by Vernon Scannell Nettles.ppt Crunch Student Copy.doc Crunch Teacher Copy IWB.doc Language Devices in Nettles.pptx Looped.ppt Effects of Language in Nettles.docx Internet Lesson…
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