Here are 21 lessons I’ve made covering the ‘Poems of the Decade’ anthology poems for Edexcel’s English Literature A Level spec. Hopefully these lesson activities will provide a useful starting point for teachers taking their students through each of these poems.
I have not provided a written scheme of work on a separate document, but the titles of the Powerpoints and the activities on each one should make it clear how I have structured the content.
Also included are some other resources that might be useful, including some unseen poems to pair the set poems with for practice comparative essays. I’ve also included an essay planner template I’ve made for students.
Really disappointing. Simplistic, unanalytical, not very interesting visually. Much, much better stuff out there for a fraction of the price. And some of the "word wall" activities don´t work.
WLRowley
4 years ago
I'm sorry you didn't find the resources useful. You're right: I probably set the pricing too high. In regards to the 'Word Wall' activities though, the idea of those is that you can use the highlight function on MS Word to 'remove' the highlighted bricks from individual words - getting students to pick 'bricks' at random, until you end up with a list of words (perhaps 5-10) that you can consider independently from the poem they're from (before you read the whole poem). Decontextualising the words in this way is an interesting method to get students thinking about the significance of diction, and how words have connotations (often symbolic) which cling to them. Then you can contextualise them by reading the whole poem and consider how their meanings, in context, may have changed. Since there's no A03 in this unit, these word-level analytical skills become even more important to foster.
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