Comparing poetry from the First World War
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of First World War writing from the companion unit, 'Literary perspectives from the First World War'. Having looked at prose responses to the First World War, they now look at poetry responses. They also start to be more detailed and precise in their comparitve writing, which prepares them for their GCSE comparative poetry writing. In particular, this unit prepares pupils for the AQA Power and Conflict and Edexcel Conflict poetry anthologies, where pupils will critically analyse and compare poetic responses to a range of conflicts.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils recognise key features of a poem including the title, stanzas, rhythm and rhyme
- Pupils are able to select quotations in support of a point
- Pupils can make logical inferences and justify these with clear reasons
- Pupils can identify some linguistic features, including metaphors
- Pupils can identify and use simple, compound and complex sentences
- Pupils can write using a single, consistent narrative perspective
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of First World War writing from the companion unit, 'Literary perspectives from the First World War'. Having looked at prose responses to the First World War, they now look at poetry responses. They also start to be more detailed and precise in their comparitve writing, which prepares them for their GCSE comparative poetry writing. In particular, this unit prepares pupils for the AQA Power and Conflict and Edexcel Conflict poetry anthologies, where pupils will critically analyse and compare poetic responses to a range of conflicts.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils recognise key features of a poem including the title, stanzas, rhythm and rhyme
- Pupils are able to select quotations in support of a point
- Pupils can make logical inferences and justify these with clear reasons
- Pupils can identify some linguistic features, including metaphors
- Pupils can identify and use simple, compound and complex sentences
- Pupils can write using a single, consistent narrative perspective
Comparing poetry from the First World War
In this unit, pupils explore how poets responded to the horrors of the First World War. They first explore Brooke's 'The Soldier', before looking at McCrae's 'In Flanders Fields' and Naidu's 'The Gift of India'. They finally write a comparative response on perspectives of war and sacrifice.
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