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A GCSE/KS4 English Literature PowerPoint lesson guiding students through a close reading and analysis of Macbeth Act 5, Scenes 5, 6 and 7 (Lady Macbeth's death through the final battle with Macduff), framed around the theme of courage.
A GCSE English Literature PowerPoint lesson guiding students through a close reading and analysis of Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Scene 5 and the Act 2 Prologue (Romeo and Juliet's first meeting/kiss at the Capulet feast, Tybalt's fury, and the Chorus's sonnet on their obstacles), framed around the theme of love.
A GCSE English Literature PowerPoint lesson guiding students through a close reading and analysis of Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scenes 1 and 2 (Romeo evading Mercutio and Benvolio to find Juliet, and the balcony scene), framed around the theme of marriage in the modern world versus 16th-century Europe.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Neutral Tones' by Thomas Hardy, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around the end of a relationship, using…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Out Out' by Robert Frost, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around a fatal accident involving a boy and a…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' by John Keats, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around a knight bewitched and…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Kid' by Simon Armitage, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around a strained father-son relationship…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Half-Caste' by John Agard, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around racism and mixed-race identity.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Piano' by D H Lawrence, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around music triggering a nostalgic memory of…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'The Man He Killed' by Thomas Hardy.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'The War Photographer' by Carole Satyamurti.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Hide and Seek' by Vernon Scannell, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around a child's game of hide and…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around World War 1 and the suffering of…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Letters from Yorkshire' by Maura Dooley, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around a long-distance…
An eighteen-slide GCSE poetry lesson on Vernon Scannell's 'Nettles' opens with author-context biography before two starter discussion slides on over-protective parenting prime students for a first reading of the full poem text. Students then annotate the poem in three line-groups, identifying tone and language devices such as the extended 'regiment of spite' and 'funeral pyre' metaphors, before answering dedicated content and structure questions about the poem's narrative and stanza form. A PETAL (Point, Evidence, Technique, Analysis, Link) framework, paired with a PROOFREAD self-assessment checklist, scaffolds a formal analytical paragraph, and the lesson closes with an extension task, a genre/form homework assignment, and plenary reflection questions. Teachers building a GCSE poetry scheme of work can pair this with the same PETAL-based approach applied to a different set text in the Half-Past Two poem analysis lesson .
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'First Date -She and First Date - He' by Wendy Cope, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around the nerves…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'When We Two Parted' by Lord Byron.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'Sonnet 29: I Think of Thee' by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'Walking Away' by C Day-Lewis.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Love' by Percy Bysshe Shelley, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around natural imagery used to argue for…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Loves Dog' by Jen Hadfield, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around the gifts and curses of a close…
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Eden Rock' by Charles Causley, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around nostalgia and childhood memory.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Man Hunt' by Simon Armitage, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around a soldier's physical and…