Careful With that…. An unseen poem response. Before I begin to write about the poem, this is taken from the Examiner’s Report for January 2020: All students need to look at this list and recognise the importance of hitting these …
Category: poetry
Mother, any distance: Armitage
Mother, any distance greater than a single spanrequires a second pair of hands.You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors,the acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors.You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape, recordinglength, …
Introduction to Out, out – (Frost) for Edexcel IGCSE
A short visualiser introduction for Frost's poem which is in the second section of the Edexcel Anthology for IGCSE. It is part of the material for Language Paper 2. https://videopress.com/v/u90ALlb5?preloadContent=metadata Read More "Introduction to Out, out – (Frost) for Edexcel IGCSE"
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Model response to The Promise: Kate Hirshfield for IGCSE ELIT
This is a model response for Edexcel IGCSE Elit paper 1 - the unseen poem. Whilst it is designed for my students in Harrow, the writing is not board specific and I would suggest that all might use it to …
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Disabled: Owen. Introduction
A short screencast to introduce Owen's poem at IGCSE English. Ideas are appropriate for all boards and all levels of study. https://videopress.com/v/IdDg8qNP?preloadContent=metadata Read More "Disabled: Owen. Introduction"
Storm on the Island: reflection
I realise that in my pieces on Heaney's Death of a Naturalist, I have not written an exploration of the poem Storm on the Island. Storm On The Island We are prepared: we build our houses squat, Sink walls …
War Photographer: Duffy. An introduction
A visualizer video to introduce Duffy's poem for study at GCSE and IGCSE Microsoft Stream link Read More "War Photographer: Duffy. An introduction"
Introducing analysis in Y9: Whitman. ‘Come up from the fields, father’.
Whilst fully aware of the move away from prescriptive PEE type structure in essays, I still use PEARL as my most familiar process for structure. I see this as embodying a 'what, why, how' approach and find it a good …
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Follower, Heaney: thoughts on metre and language
Follower -note the lack of an article suggesting the whole range of potential meanings and sub-meanings to the word. Heaney is writing literally of a boy who followed his father around the fields and farm in his youth and who …
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Poetic Form and how to use it: A guide for Edexcel IGCSE and all unseen poetry
Dr Ammara Ashraf, who joined my department last term has produced many little gems which glitter proudly in our shared resources area. She has allowed me to share further this PowerPoint on Form for exam students at IGCSE, GCSE and …
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