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 …
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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 …
Island Man lesson for yr 10
A slide deck for my Y10 class - reading Island Man as an unseen... island-man-lessonDownload Read More "Island Man lesson for yr 10"
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 …
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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Vultures: Achebe. A virtual lesson
I am experimenting in Teams and here I use MS Whiteboard to work on Achebe's poem Vultures with Y11. It is a hard time for Y11 - exams are cancelled, but they are still in school... I am so pleased …
Lecture: exploring the unseen poem
This sound file is of a lecture given for Avanti House School in NW London. What a great group of enthusiastic and bright Year 11s. It lasts about an hour.... https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/180315_001.mp3 jwp unseen poetry Read More "Lecture: exploring the unseen poem"
Year 10 discuss: Robert Frost, Stopping by woods… as an unseen poem.
I am experimenting with ExplainEverything as a medium for supporting learning. This is a link to a lesson taught today with my Year 10 class and acting as support for the 6 or 7 boys who were sitting an art …
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Edexcel IGCSE approaching an unseen poem: Stopping by woods…
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Unseen poetry for IGCSE
The next revision class in the series is on approaches to unseen poetry and includes a powerpoint of ideas for approaching Heaney's Mid-term break as an unseen. The lesson focuses on the approach and the unseen is an optional writing …
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