Remains by Simon Armitage On another occasion, we got sent out to tackle looters raiding a bank. And one of them legs it up the road, probably armed, possibly not. Well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of …
Category: poetry
IGCSE Unseen poem support: John Rice – ‘Careful with that…’
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 …
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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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