Thomas Hardy 'The Man He Killed' Breakdown and Analysis

The PowerPoints include a pair of lessons on Thomas Hardy’s poem ‘The Man He Killed,’ suitable for use with a KS3 class or mid-low ability KS4 class. Lesson one includes an overview of the poem with inference tasks to help students understand the ‘story,’ while lesson two focuses more on closely analysing the language.

The lessons build up to a mini assessment writing analytically about the poem.

Note: The lessons do not reference an Edexcel or AQA mark scheme explicitely, and also do not dive into the context in the detail required for an Edexcel exam question.