Name Journeys

Name Journeys – Raman Mundair

AQA GCSE English Literature: Worlds and Lives Anthology

Two-Lesson Teaching Resource

This two-lesson teaching pack helps students engage confidently with Raman Mundair’s poem Name Journeys, a key text in the AQA Worlds and Lives anthology. Fully editable and designed for straightforward classroom delivery, the resource supports learners in understanding the poem’s context, ideas and techniques while building the analytical skills needed for strong GCSE responses.

Resource Includes

Two complete, ready-to-teach lessons

A 35-slide PowerPoint with varied and accessible activities

Context on Raman Mundair, migration, cultural identity and language

Guided first-reading tasks to introduce the poem’s key ideas

Close analysis of language, imagery and writer’s methods with model answers

Theme-focused tasks exploring identity, heritage, assimilation and mispronunciation

Clear teaching on free verse, enjambment and structural effects

Comparison activities to support cross-poem analysis

Essay practice with scaffolds, writing frames and example paragraphs

Plenaries and recap tasks to reinforce learning

Learning Aims

Students will develop understanding of:

How Mundair explores identity, belonging and the significance of names

How mispronunciation, language loss and cultural pressure shape the speaker’s experience

How the poem’s free verse and flowing structure reflect shifting identity

How to compare Name Journeys with poems such as Pot, Homing and On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955

This resource is ideal for whole-class teaching, revision lessons or targeted intervention sessions and is fully editable to suit the needs of your students.