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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Approaching the unseen poem: AQA GCSE
A slide deck to explore Robert Frost's Woods on a snowy evening for AQA GCSE ELit students and teachers. As ever, this is a work in progress, but please feel free to use it .... jwp-unseen-poetry1-frostDownload Read More "Approaching the …
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 …
American Lit unseen practice: Babbitt (1922)
My Upper VIth boys wrote an unseen on this passage earlier in the week as part of their A Level Mini Assessments. I wrote this after the event to aid my marking of their papers. The passage is found after …
Thomas Wolfe: Unseen response
A model response to the Thomas Wolfe unseen 'The Far and Near' found here : 2 Passages for A level unseen practice. The passage opens with a description of the kind of Mid-Western setting which embodies the American Dream and the …
2 Passages for A level unseen practice
I watched the film 'Genius' recently which focuses on the life of Thomas Wolfe. Thus inspired, here are two Wolfe openings from short stories for A level Unseen Practice: Circus at Dawn by Thomas Wolfe THERE WERE TIMES IN EARLY …
A level Unseen: Dos Passos – The 42nd Parallel.
My ideas as a response to this passage in OCR A level unseen format. The Passage: John Dos Passos - The 42nd Parallel (1930) The young man walks fast by himself through the crowd that thins into the night streets; …
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 …
Discussing an A level unseen with U6th
A discussion of the unseen on Diamond as Big as the Ritz. https://videopress.com/v/of8XscrB?preloadContent=metadata A level unseen from Diamond as big as the Ritz Read More "Discussing an A level unseen with U6th"
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