Another post trying to help students to engage with unseen poetry. This is aimed predominantly at GCSE students but could be used in the L6th to begin to explore the use of SCASI before tackling longer prose extracts. https://www.loom.com/share/d673e01028ea4ed5bf765458c236fcc3 https://www.loom.com/share/d673e01028ea4ed5bf765458c236fcc3 …
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A London thoroughfare. 2AM. Unseen poem
A model response to a poem which has been used by AQA as a GCSE unseen. Written under timed conditions. The question: How does the poet present the speaker's feelings about the city at night? This poem , written in …
Piano : DH Lawrence – feedback model response
This is a model response outline for a feedback class who read the poem as an unseen. How does the poet explore the speaker’s emotions in the poem Piano? In your introduction – answer the question at a basic level: …
Unseen for Edexcel IGCSE practice: Long Distance II. Tony Harrison.
As usual, an unseen response written in 30-35 minutes to the Edexcel format with focus on the 3 bullets for that exam - descriptive devices, language choice and structure. Long Distance IITony Harrison - 1937- Though my mother was already …
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Unseen Booster: My Parents. Stephen Spender
A 25 minute booster session as breakfast club on MS Teams for two of my Y11s. This considers an approach to Spender's poem for Edexcel IGCSE Elit - the unseen poem. I have left in the 10 minute silent prep …
July Man: Margaret Avison
A while ago my IB students wrote practice unseens on this poem. They found it very difficult to approach - as did I. Slightly chastened, I wrote my own commentary. I am sending this to them to mark for themselves, …
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