A fully differentiated and resourced lesson that supports students as they analyse two unseen poems and answer both unseen poetry questions (24 marks and 8 marks) in preparation for AQA English Literature Paper 2. With the exam only a few weeks away it is amazing how many schools focus so much of their energies on the anthology poetry in Power and Conflict and Love and Relationships but seem to sideline Unseen Poetry when it is worth 32 marks in total. This lesson is definitely worth getting if you want to help build students’ independence rather than them relying on you to spoon feed them all the necessary information.

This well-presented PowerPoint contains fifteen engaging one-hour lessons (190 slides) that focus on preparing students for AQA’s GCSE English Literature Paper 2: Section C - Unseen Poetry (8702). There are a wide range of tasks (listed below) that focus on building the skills needed for AO1 and AO2 - including practice questions, original model responses and extension tasks. The PowerPoint includes a baseline assessment and an end of unit assessment. All of the questions are written in the style of the GCSE exam so that students are familiar with the format in advance of sitting the qualification. There are weekly unseen poetry essay homework tasks, as well as three extra slides with exam-based questions and tasks that could be used as cover work or as extra questions for revision. A range of poets and topics are included, such as: Owen, Browning, Blake, Bronte, Wordsworth, Orwell, Lawrence, Hardy, Rossetti & more. Areas Covered: Lesson 1: The Big Picture & Introduction Lesson 2: Unseen Poetry Baseline Assessment Lesson 3: Understanding & Annotating Lesson 4: Approaching a 24 Marker Lesson 5: A Full 24 Marker Lesson 6: Thinking About Structure Lesson 7: 24 Marks of Practice Lesson 8: Introduction to Comparison Lesson 9: Thinking About Language Lesson 10: Intriguing Language Lesson 11: Inferences & Connotations Lesson 12: Modal Verbs Lesson 13: Practice Assessment Lesson 14: The Perfect Answer Lesson 15: Unseen Poetry End Of Unit Assessment Extra: Three additional exam questions Please check out my other resources in my shop. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

REVAMPED! Power and Conflict revision guide that comes in a fully editable PowerPoint or a printable PDF for students, parents and teachers. A fully differentiated revision guide for KS4 students looking at the AQA Power and Conflict GCSE Poetry Anthology for Literature Paper 2. The revision guide includes differentiated activities for every poem, including: The Prelude; Storm on the Island; Exposure; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Bayonet Charge; Remains; Poppies; War Photographer; Kamikaze; Ozymandias; London; My Last Duchess; The Émigrée; Checking Out Me History; Tissue. Now includes revision activites to help compare poems and make meaningful comparisons, as well as a guide to the mark scheme and what the examiners are looking for in your answers.

2025 Unseen Poetry model answer for BOTH questions on Table by Robert Hull and Like a Beacon by Grace Nichols. This model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 2. Includes two answers that weaves together language and structure analysis, relevant comparisons how and why the two writers present their poems in relation to home and family. **Want a free resource? Leave a review and we’ll send you a free single resource. Just email us at info@englishgcse.co.uk after you’ve left your review! ** Please note that this resource pack does not contain the exam paper or the question. This is a teaching aid designed for educators who have access to the papers themselves.

This is a poetry analysis methodology for GCSE English Literature students that aids the consideration of the primary elements of poetry: meaning, imagery, tone, structure, and language. The first item in this resource acts as an introduction to poetry analysis and, later, a study and revision aid to enable fluent analysis of poetry. It is ideal for Unseen Poetry (or poems from the associating poetry clusters usually included in English Literature Paper 2, but currently removed due to COVID). This guide breaks down poetry analysis into 5 primary areas of focus, highlighting some of the aspects to consider for each of these broad criteria. It introduces and aids revision of key poetic techniques, and encourages critical thinking and individual interpretation of how the poet employs these techniques. It also requires the student to think about how all of these devices and aspects of the poem contribute to the overall meaning of the poem, and how the poet uses these techniques to explore the themes pervading the text. The second item is a blank template for the student to note down ideas, devices, and aspects they notice in the poem they are working through during the lesson. This can then be repeated to cement poetry analysis skills, and used as revision or homework exercises to help hone students’ independent work. Although this is created with poetry analysis in mind, all of these areas of enquiry are relevant when analysing any literary text, so this provides students with the foundational skills necessary to approach both poetry and prose. It is also very useful to work through this prior to approaching Shakespeare. The skills covered in this resource are transportable and fundamental to both English Literature and Language GSCE.

Very popular! Download this fun two-week unit for Year 4 based on classic performance poetry. A two-week English unit of work for Year 4, containing lesson plans and pupil resources, looking at how this poet creates a haunted atmosphere in some of his spooky narrative poems. In this unit pupils will: - read and listen to classic poems by Walter de la Mare - use inference skills to understand narrative poetry - engage imaginatively with poetic language - create their own versions of the one of the spooky poems - investigate how the poet creates a haunted atmosphere - explore how sound effects can enhance a performance - prepare and give a performance to an audience The poems include 'The Huntsmen', 'Some one' and 'The Listeners' You may also like: Year 3 Poetry Planning Pack

KS3 Lesson - Introduction to Poetry lesson focusing on Poetry With a Message reading The Ballad of Hillsborough by Simon Rae. A variety of activities, including examining the Hillsborough disaster, two copies of the poem, annotated with questions designed to help pupils independently annotate the poem and the answers for pupils to check their answers, an analytical question on the poem with sentence stems and more.

KS4 resource to help support unseen poetry with scaffolded analysis and writing framework of ‘Children’s Song’ (AQA specimen paper poem) for lower ability students. Can also be used for: self-study homework task distance learning

A fantastically detailed unseen poetry knowledge organiser / revision mat that includes a step by step approach to both AQA English Literature Paper 2 unseen poetry questions, language analysis, structure and form analysis, and key content information, as well as detailed info on meter, language, rhyme, scaffolded answers and more. Fantastic revision materials for GCSE students for AQA English Literature Paper 2 students. The resource includes an editable PowerPoint AND a PDF file to make things easier to print out onto A3 paper. UPDATE: Now includes a four page A4 version for ease of printing and could be used for revision flash cards, too! Check out our English Shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources. AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package AQA English Language Paper 1 package AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package AQA English Language and English Literature revision package An Inspector Calls whole scheme package An Inspector Calls revision package Macbeth whole scheme package Macbeth revision package A Christmas Carol whole scheme package A Christmas Carol revision package Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package Jekyll and Hyde revision package Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package Unseen Poetry whole scheme package

A well designed and visually pleasing revision quiz to help engage and motivate students with their revision of all 15 poems in the Power and Conflict cluster. 101 slides included totaling 100 questions coving theme, quotations, structure, language and much more. This PowerPoint is fully animated and includes an animated 10 second timer for each question slide. Please check out my other great value resources Fully Annotated Poems (Power and Conflict) Power and Conflict Revision Booklet Power and Conflict 15 A3 Worksheets

This comprehensive AQA Unseen Poetry Workbook is designed to help students build confidence and excel in their poetry exam. Packed with expert guidance, practical exercises, and useful resources, this workbook provides a clear and structured approach to tackling unseen poetry in the AQA English Literature exam. Key Features: Assessment Objectives: A breakdown of the key assessment objectives (AOs) for unseen poetry, helping students understand what the examiners are looking for and how to meet these criteria in their responses. How to Tackle the Exam: Step-by-step strategies for approaching the unseen poetry exam, from reading the poem carefully to planning and structuring your answer. 24-Mark Question Practice with Scaffolded Guidance: Practice questions based on past exam-style prompts, with scaffolded guidance to help students approach their analysis. 8-Mark Question Practice with Scaffolded Guidance: Similar to the 24-mark question practice, this section includes targeted 8-mark questions with step-by-step guidance on how to effectively respond within a shorter, more focused framework. Model Answers for Both 24-Marks and 8-Marks: Model answers for both 24-mark and 8-mark questions, showing students how to craft well-developed, coherent, and insightful responses. These examples demonstrate the level of detail and analysis required to achieve high marks. Form, Structure, and Language Glossary: A useful glossary of key terms related to form, structure, and language. This includes definitions and examples of literary devices, structural features, and language techniques, helping students to confidently discuss how these elements contribute to the meaning and impact of the poem. With this AQA Unseen Poetry Workbook, students will have all the tools they need to approach their unseen poetry exam with clarity and confidence. Whether you are working through practice questions, reviewing model answers, or learning how to analyze form and language effectively, this workbook is an essential resource for success.

Download this popular two-week unit for Year 1 based on classic poetry to perform. A two-week literacy unit of work for Year 1, containing lesson plans and pupil resources, looking at some ofEdward Lear's most funny and imaginative poems. In this unit pupils will: - listen to classic poems by Edward Lear - investigate the sounds and language patterns of the poem - make a comic version of 'The Owl and the Pussycat' - identify rhyming words and patterns - make a new version of the poem 'The Jumblies' - prepare and give a performance to an audience The poems include 'The Owl and the Pussycat', 'Calico Pie' and 'The Jumblies'. You may also like our other KS1 poetry packs: Year 2 Performance Poetry Pack Summer Performance Poetry Pack Spring Performance Poetry

This lesson is an introduction to poetry for KS3 class. It focues on the meaning of poetry and poetic devices with a small practice poem at the end of the powerpoint to get them used to annotating and analysing poems.

These are scaffolds used with both mid ability and low ability GCSE classes to help to explore key quotes in the poems and also to check students’ rudimentary understanding of the main parts of the poems. Could also be used as independent revision resources.

This lesson was designed for iGCSE Literature students studying for the Pearson Edexcel exam, but it could easily be adapted for unseen lessons or poetry analysis skills lessons. It includes an engaging starter, a pre-read activity, a detailed analysis and annotation activity, and a conslidation task. The lesson is colourful and scaffolded for different learners’ needs.

Students are shown a definition and example of a poetic technique on the PowerPoint. They need to write down which poetic technique they think is being described. Answers are multiple choice to support lower ability students. This quiz would suit a high-ability KS3 class, as well as KS4 and KS5 as revision. Techniques covered: • alliteration • symbolism • metaphor • sibilance • enjambment • simile • free verse • assonance • imagery • allusion • personification • rhyme • onomatopoeia • rhythm/meter • anaphora • juxtaposition Did you find this resource helpful? Please consider leaving the resource a quick review to help others decide whether they should download it too. Thanks in advance :)

This is the perfect guide to Section C (Unseen Poetry) of the AQA A-level English Literature Paper 1 (‘Love Through the Ages’) exam. Your students will find it incredibly helpful, since the model plans, model essays and poems with which to practise their own essay-writing leaves them in no doubt as to how to approach this component. Enjoy!

A collection of annotated Paula Meehan poems suitable for use with Leaving Cert English students. Buying Winkles The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks The Exact Moment I Became a Poet Hearth Lessons The Pattern Death of a Field

A clearly explained and fully resourced lesson which explores similies and metaphors. Could be used as a stand alone lesson or as part of a poetry scheme of work. Learning Question: Can I understand how similes and metaphors are used in poetry and comment on the effect? Students are not only encouraged to identify the technique correctly, but also to explore the intended effect and what the poet hoped to achieve/emphasise through the comparison. This resource includes a powerpoint and five worksheets. I used it during lockdown with a year 7 class studying poetry. It would also be suitable for a cover lesson. Lesson outline: After looking at some examples and discussing them, students then analyse Walter De la Mare’s poem ‘The Fly’ and explore how the similes/metaphors used to describe everyday objects successfully convey their size. For homework (or in class) students then write their own poem from this unique perspective and must incorporate their own similes and metaphors. Finally, I have also included a reflection task so that students can consider the choices they made and what they hoped to exaggerate or emphasise through their own imagery.

A resource with worksheets providing an introduction to poetry, including different poetic forms and poem types, features, and exercises to students to write their own poems.