This engaging lesson is designed for students following the Edexcel A Level English Literature (9ET0) course, focusing on Ros Barber’s Material from the Poems of the Decade anthology. It encourages exploration of the poem’s key themes and provides a structure-approach to essay writing for a single poem.
Lesson Stages:
- Starter Activity: Students tune into the themes and ideas of the poem through a reflective activity and discussion on the idea of sentimental value. Questions are provided.
- A whole class reading of the poem with some initial questions about its themes and imagery.
- An quotation gathering and note-making activity centred on the theme of motherhood.
- An exam style question (single poem only; not comparative) with an exemplar response.
- Clear and simple success criteria are provided for students whilst they write their own response to the question.
- UPDATE: A new task has been introduced where students find a comparison poem online, plan and write a response to a self-designed question.
- Plenary: A reflection activity where students reflect on the presentation of the theme of motherhood as well as their own essay responses.
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This isn't detailed enough to be considered an A Level lesson. Very basic.
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