Analysing the ideas of connections in Antrobus' 'With Birds You're Never Lonely'

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Understanding ideas of identity and heritage in Robinson's 'A Portable Paradise'

Analysing ideas of identity and heritage in Robinson's 'A Portable Paradise'

Understanding ideas of inheritance and identity in Nichols' 'Like an Heiress'

Analysing ideas of nature and heritage in Nichols' 'Like an Heiress'

Understanding connections in Antrobus' 'With Birds You're Never Lonely'

Comparing ideas of nature and identity in Robinson, Nichols, and Antrobus' poems

Making connections across the AQA Worlds and Lives anthology

Analysing extended responses to power and authority in Shelley and Femi's poetry

Planning a response to ideas of belonging in the AQA Worlds and Lives anthology

Writing a response to ideas of belonging in the AQA Worlds and Lives anthology

Reviewing a response to ideas of belonging in the AQA Worlds and Lives anthology

In 'AQA World and Lives Poetry continued', pupils used a range of reading skills to aid the supported decoding of challenging poems. In Unseen Poetry, pupils use these reading skills to decode texts with independence.

In 'AQA World and Lives Poetry', pupils compared the language, form and structure of a variety of poems connected by the themes of culture and identity. In 'AQA World and Lives Poetry continued', pupils work on making more nuanced comparisons, focusing on the final three poems: *With Birds You're Never Lonely*, *The Jewellery Maker* and *A Wider View*

In this unit, pupis read and analyse three poems from the 'World and Lives' anthology. Pupils complete two lessons about each poem: one on understanding and one on analysis. At the end of the unit, pupils analyse themes from the anthology, compare specific poems and craft a full analytical response.

Poetry anthology: continued study

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length is a ...

Something "fragmented" means something ...

Which of the following quotations, taken from  'With Birds You're Never Lonely', conveys a sense of warmth onto nature?

The speaker is searching for a sense of completeness.

The speaker has underlying a sense of completeness.

The speaker senses nature feels incomplete.

In  'With Birds You're Never Lonely', Antrobus uses couplets that do not rhyme and that are not the same length. How could we interpret this?

Though there is arguably a cyclical structure, 'With Birds You're Never Lonely' exhibits a shift in which of the following from the beginning to the end?

a story where the narrative occurs in cycles

a story told from a third-person omniscient narrator

Which of the following is the definition of a cyclical structure?

The speaker finds comfort in the modern, urban world.

The speaker finds the modern, urban world an isolating experience.

The speaker finds nature solely intimidating and overwhelming.

Which of the following is an accurate summary of Antrobus' 'With Birds You're Never Lonely'?

Which of the following denotes a sense of lifelessness?

The continuation of the meaning of a line of poetry over onto the next is called ...

The word "stumbling" contributes to the idea that the speaker of Antrobus' 'With Birds You're Never Lonely' had a __________ experience in nature.

Analysing the ideas of connections in Antrobus' 'With Birds You're Never Lonely'

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