Rossetti Selected Poems: A Level Edexcel - all 21 poems

All 21 high-quality lesson slides. Fully editable, engaging, and rigorous. Dual-coded for visual learners.

This comprehensive and fully resourced Selected Poems of Rossetti is designed for A-Level English Literature (Edexcel) but is easily adaptable for AQA. These first 10 lessons (follows the recommended sequence of teaching Rossetti poems) supports in-depth textual analysis, critical thinking, and essay writing while ensuring students meet the demands of AO1–AO2 and AO3:

L1 - Rossetti - Remember
L2 - A Christmas Carol
L3 - Goblin Market
L4 - Up-Hill
L5 - A Birthday
L6 - Maude Clare
L7 - A Helpmeet for Him
L8 - An Apple-Gathering
L9 - Memory
L10 - As Froth on the Face of the Deep
L11 - At Home
L12 - Babylon the Great
L13 - Echo
L14 - May
L15 - The World
L16 - Our Mothers, Lovely Women Pitiful
L17 - Some Ladies Dress in Muslin Full and White
L18 - Twice
L19 - What Would I Give
L20 - Passing and Glassing
L21 - Piteous my Rhyme is

Perfect for experienced teachers looking to save planning time or early career teachers seeking a clear, structured approach.

What’s Included:

First Lesson includes Unit introduction to A-level Component 3: Section B.
Five for Five starters (linked across KS5 texts for spiral learning and retrieval practice)
Full answers for every Five for Five
Dual-coding – Visual icons and diagrams aid memory and concept links
Key vocabulary on every slide
Frayer models to deepen understanding of abstract terminology
Detailed context slides for both poem and poet, with theoretical and critical links
Reading slide summarising key themes, motifs, and speaker/persona
Pit Stop Table task – Students complete a guided table of quotations, techniques, analysis, and context/critical theory
Pit Stop Table answers – Fully modelled for easy marking or discussion
We Do task – discussion prompts with scaffolded analytical writing support and practice
We Do task answers – Model responses demonstrating high-level analysis - All lesson model paragraphs follow PEZEDAL structure (Point, Evidence, Zoom (technique), Effect/ Explain, Develop, Additional interpretation, Link to themes/ ideas/ reader/ psychoanalytical.
I Do task – Model A* essay covering the lesson’s inquiry question with full AO1 - AO2 and AO3 coverage
You Do task – Essay planning/writing task with full scaffold and ‘Strive’ extension challenge
Plenary – Peer or self-assessment with success criteria
Each lesson is structured for clarity, challenge, and progression while encouraging critical engagement with the anthology texts.

Suitable for:

Edexcel A-Level English Literature (Component 3: Section B)
Teachers delivering the Selected Poems of Rossetti - Easily adaptable for AQA
KS5 literature classrooms aiming for high engagement and top-band responses
Format:

Fully editable PowerPoint slides
Professionally structured, ready to teach or adapt for your cohort