Unseen poetry
Why this, why now
In this unit, pupils prepare for the unseen poetry in their Literature GCSE by reading poems, studying different poetry methods, and developing personal responses. They start by looking at ideas in single poems, before developing their comparative skills and writing comparisons of two unseen poems.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
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Unseen poetry
In this unit, pupils prepare for the unseen poetry in their Literature GCSE by reading poems, studying different poetry methods, and developing personal responses. They start by looking at ideas in single poems, before developing their comparative skills and writing comparisons of two unseen poems.
20 lessons- Writing and developing a response to an unseen poem
- Writing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry
- Analysing how poets present ideas of transience in unseen poetry
- Reviewing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry
- Conceptualising and analysing speaker and voice in unseen poetry
- Planning a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry
- Analysing extended responses to ideas of transience in unseen poetry
- Identifying and analysing semantic fields in unseen poetry
- Analysing use of sound in an unseen poem
- Understanding sub-text in unseen poems
- Selecting and using quotations from an unseen poem
- Structural analysis of unseen poetry
- Planning a response to an unseen poem by collecting and organising your thoughts
- Comparing how poets present motherhood and maternal stereotypes in unseen poems
- Explaining comparative imagery in unseen poetry
- Comparing personal responses to unseen poetry
- Developing a personal response to an unseen poem
- Comparing ideas about transience in unseen poetry
- Exploring titles in unseen poetry
- Analysing tone in an unseen poem