ideas for teaching poetry – English Teaching Resources

Horses: Edwin Muir. A revision lesson (and other ideas for CIE)

jwpblog April 30, 2015

I have adapted a resource pack that I have bought to make this Powerpoint to support Muir's Horses for CIE IGCSE. The zig zag education pack is full of good ideas! horses revision lesson Not really suitable for first teaching... …

Poetry of Jackie Kay

jwpblog January 5, 2015

Here ar emy ideas for a module based on JAckie Kay's early poetry. Used as part of an "identities" module in Year 7. The pack is from a Hodder publication and I have no idea if it is still in …

SCASI: My Last Duchess

jwpblog June 15, 2014

A quick SCASI teaching idea for the poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning: duchess y10 scasi approach I have blogged a few other teaching ideas for this poem: https://jwpblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/a-comparison-of-the-treatment-of-love/ https://jwpblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/last-duchess-revision-mats-year-11/ Read More "SCASI: My Last Duchess"

teaching suggestions for Poetry and Classics module

jwpblog August 14, 2013

Please feel free to browse this resource - it is work in progress and will, no doubt, be adapted! It should be used in conjunction with the resources placed on the blog a few weeks ago! Poetry and Classics Read …

Teaching Edexcel IGCSE/Certificate Anthology C

jwpblog November 1, 2012

5 of the poems are being taught to Year 9 this term. Here is a rather wordy PowerPoint on If, Prayer, Half Past, Piano and Hide and Seek. As usual, these are not definitive and are a mixture of my …