I set Year 7 a remote learning task today on the Loom link below. https://www.loom.com/share/ac516e870ca9429bbdc455aed3e9cca7 I have just received this poem by email: To Mr Peel, I have completed my storm poem. thank you for this joyous task. I have …
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Unseen poetry boost: Spender, My Parents
My Parents BY STEPHEN SPENDER My parents kept me from children who were rough Who threw words like stones and wore torn clothes Their thighs showed through rags they ran in the street And climbed cliffs and stripped by the country …
Unlocking an unseen poem: Strategies at KS4
I have prepared a slide deck to help Yr 10 students who are finding approaching an unseen poem tricky. They write well, but find it hard to get a way into the poem in the first place. Two poems are …
Kamikaze: Beatrice Garland. An unseen response.
Recently we set this poem as an unseen for Year 10, studying IGCSE Literature (Edexcel). It is also a set text at GCSE in some boards. It is long for an unseen and I want to capture the highlights as …
Remains: Simon Armitage
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 …
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"
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