Explaining comparative imagery in unseen poetry

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Exploring titles in unseen poetry

Structural analysis of unseen poetry

Understanding sub-text in unseen poems

Conceptualising and analysing speaker and voice in unseen poetry

Identifying and analysing semantic fields in unseen poetry

Selecting and using quotations from an unseen poem

Comparing how poets present motherhood and maternal stereotypes in unseen poems

Developing a personal response to an unseen poem

Planning a response to an unseen poem by collecting and organising your thoughts

Writing and developing a response to an unseen poem

Analysing tone in an unseen poem

Analysing use of sound in an unseen poem

Comparing personal responses to unseen poetry

Comparing ideas about transience in unseen poetry

Analysing how poets present ideas of transience in unseen poetry

Analysing extended responses to ideas of transience in unseen poetry

Planning a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry

Writing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry

Reviewing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry

In 'AQA Power and Conflict 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 this unit, pupils prepare for the unseen poetry in their Literature GCSE by reading poems, studying different poetry methods, and developing personal responses. They start by looking at ideas in single poems, before developing their comparative skills and writing comparisons of two unseen poems.

Unseen poetry

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

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

'Form a concept or idea of (something)' is the definition of {{}}.

'Able to be easily hurt, influenced, or attacked' is the definition of being {{}}.

The mother is paralysed by her fear of swimming and diving.

The mother overcomes her fear of diving from the high board.

The poem celebrates the mother's love of swimming and the freedom it gives her.

Which of the following is a fair summary of Forster's 'Mother, Diving'?

Which comparative image in Forster's 'Mother, Diving' could suggest the subversion of maternal stereotypes?

'To overcome (an obstacle, feeling, desire, etc)' is the definition of {{}}.

that the mother is completely transformed.

that the mother may have changed but not fundamentally.

Forster's choice to use a metaphor as the final comparative image in 'Mother, Diving' could suggest ...

'A figure of speech that involves comparing two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as' ' is the definition of a ...

'A guess that you make or an opinion that you form based on the information that you have' is the definition of an ...

'A figure of speech that involves comparing two things using the verb 'to be' ' is the definition of a ...

Birds in literature generally represent ...

Stereotypically, we associate mothers with ideas of ...

Explaining comparative imagery in unseen poetry

Lesson outcome

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