Unseen poetry
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' wide reading of poetry and understanding of poetry analysis and comparison from the first and continued study units for their poetry anthology. Pupils now apply that knowledge by developing their own personal responses with less teacher direction and scaffolding. They also develop ideas and ways for reading poetry in their own time, which will enrich their future reading of poetry.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode texts
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of a poet
- Pupils can recognise and comment on some structural devices such as rhyme, rhythm, stanza and line length
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines
- Pupils can use quotations judiciously, to support their analysis
- Students can use comparative conjuctions and correlative conjunctions, to compare texts
- Pupils can identify symbols in a text and make comments on what they could represent
- Pupils can use tentative language to explore alternative interpretations
- Pupils can use superlatives to support and evaluate the effectiveness of a poet's language and structural choices
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' wide reading of poetry and understanding of poetry analysis and comparison from the first and continued study units for their poetry anthology. Pupils now apply that knowledge by developing their own personal responses with less teacher direction and scaffolding. They also develop ideas and ways for reading poetry in their own time, which will enrich their future reading of poetry.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode texts
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of a poet
- Pupils can recognise and comment on some structural devices such as rhyme, rhythm, stanza and line length
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines
- Pupils can use quotations judiciously, to support their analysis
- Students can use comparative conjuctions and correlative conjunctions, to compare texts
- Pupils can identify symbols in a text and make comments on what they could represent
- Pupils can use tentative language to explore alternative interpretations
- Pupils can use superlatives to support and evaluate the effectiveness of a poet's language and structural choices
Literature
Unseen poetry
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.
20 lessons in unit
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