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.

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.

Attack by Siegfried Sassoon SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 1 IGCSE Literature 0486/O-Level (CIE) CONTENTS 5 IGCSE Exam-Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response (1003 Words) 1 Worksheet (6 pages) short critical questions for understanding literary terms identified 1 imaginative writing task with themes, tone and mood

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

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

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.

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’

ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH by Wilfred Owen SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 1 IGCSE Literature 0486/O-Level (CIE) CONTENTS 11 IGCSE Exam-Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response (852 Words) 1 Worksheet (6 pages) short critical questions for understanding literary terms identified 1 imaginative writing task with themes, tone, and mood LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use the eleven 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 TREES by Philip Larkin SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 1 IGCSE Literature 0486/O-Level (CIE) CONTENTS 6 IGCSE Exam-Style Questions for Practice 1 Worksheet (6 pages) short critical questions for understanding literary terms identified 1 imaginative writing task with themes, tone, and mood

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

SONG: TEARS, IDLE TEARS by Alfred, Lord Tennyson SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 1 IGCSE Literature 0486/O-Level (CIE) CONTENTS 7 IGCSE Exam-Style Questions for Practice 1 Worksheet (6 pages) short critical questions for understanding literary terms identified 1 imaginative writing task with themes, tone, and mood

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare-50 IGCSE Exam Style Questions and 1 Model Response Question Bank for Practice For IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) Paper 2 CONTENTS 50 IGCSE Exam Style Questions 39 Passage Based Questions 11 Critical Essay Questions 18 Significant Moments/Passages identified and indicated 1 Model Response for Critical Essay Question

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.

The Clod and the Pebble by William Blake IGCSE Literature 0486(CIE) SONGS OF OURSELVES Volume 2 CONTENTS 3 IGCSE Exam Style Questions for Practice 1 Model Response in 831 words LESSON PLAN and USAGE • Use the three 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.

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.

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.

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 ...