Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes

Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes (PowerPoint and worksheets)

Hawk Roosting is a GCSE English teaching resource for the poem Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes. The resource includes a range of activities which explore the poem’s language, imagery, form, poetic devices, themes and structure in depth. It is aimed at teachers of GCSE students preparing for the exam.

‘Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes’ includes:

• A short introduction to Ted Hughes.
• Consolidation and comprehension activities.
• Analysing Hughes’s use of imagery and language.
• Examining the poem’s form, structure and poetic devices.
• Modelling how to use P.E.T.E.R. to write analytically about Hawk Roosting.
• The poem’s key themes and ideas.

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