Edexcel GCSE English Literature – The Class Game by Mary Casey | Conflict Poetry Visual Revision

Edexcel GCSE English Literature – The Class Game by Mary Casey | Conflict Poetry Visual Revision Pack

A clear and accessible visual revision pack designed to support students studying The Class Game by Mary Casey for Edexcel GCSE English Literature – Conflict Poetry.

The poem explores ideas surrounding social class, prejudice, identity, discrimination, inequality, language and working-class pride.

These resources help students understand the poem’s key themes, language, structure and writer’s message while developing useful ideas for poetry analysis and comparison.

KEY AREAS COVERED

Students are supported with:

• Social class
• Working-class identity
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Inequality
• Pride and self-respect
• Language and accent
• Stereotypes
• Power and status
• The speaker’s voice
• Key quotations
• Language analysis
• Structure and form
• Context
• Writer’s intentions
• Poetry comparison

LANGUAGE, FORM AND STRUCTURE

The resources support analysis of techniques such as:

• Direct address
• Rhetorical questions
• Repetition
• Colloquial language
• Dialect
• Contrast
• Listing
• Irony
• First-person voice
• Challenging tone
• Informal language
• Structural shifts

Students can explore how Casey uses the speaker’s voice to challenge assumptions about class and reject the idea that wealth, accent or background determine a person’s value.

EXAM AND REVISION SUPPORT

The pack can be used for:

• Edexcel GCSE English Literature
• Conflict poetry
• Poetry comparison
• Exam preparation
• Classroom teaching
• Independent revision
• Intervention
• Retrieval practice
• Homework
• SEN / SEND support
• Mixed-ability classes

Useful comparison themes include:

• Identity
• Prejudice
• Social inequality
• Power
• Discrimination
• Voice
• Culture
• Conflict between individuals and society

Possible comparison poems include Half-Caste, No Problem, Cousin Kate and other Conflict anthology poems dealing with identity, prejudice or inequality.

FILE FORMAT

This is a visual revision resource pack.

Please note that this is not an editable PowerPoint, Word workbook or complete lesson.

QUALIFICATION

Edexcel GCSE English Literature
Conflict Poetry
The Class Game – Mary Casey

COPYRIGHT / PLEASE NOTE

This is an independently created educational resource and is not produced, endorsed or approved by Edexcel or Pearson.

Students should use this resource alongside the current official specification, anthology and teacher guidance.

Copyright in the original poem remains with the relevant copyright holder. This resource does not reproduce or replace the original anthology text.