Unseen Poetry

Unseen Poetry Lesson Map

Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Extra

Three extra poems are included at the end for use as cover work (if
1: The Big Picture 4: Approaching A 7: 24 Mark 10: Intriguing 13: Practice
Lesson Three Lesson Two Lesson One

Kilmer 24 Marker Practice Language Assessment

Lawrence Cary Johnson & Johnson Owen & McCrae

2: Baseline 5: A Full 24 8: Introduction To 11: Inferences & 14: The Perfect

Assessment Marker Comparison Connotations Answer
Sorley & Orwell Yeats Cary & Moore Cary Bronte & Rilke

3: Understanding & 6: Thinking About 9: Thinking About 12: Modal Verbs 15: End of Unit
Annotating Structure Language Cooke Assessment
Dunbar-Nelson Whitman Browning Dunbar & Lawrence

Wilds, Blake & Hardy

Poetic Techniques Glossary Stevenson Rossetti Wordsworth & Lawrence Owen & Sorley
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Lesson 1:The Big

Picture
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Do Now:
In your own words, write a definition of the word
‘poetry’.

Give yourself a confidence rating for ‘unseen poetry’. 1 being you have no confidence and the thought of an
exam on the topic keeps you up at night. 10 being the grade nine is yours, it’s just a matter of time.
Lesson Objectives
To understand the ‘big picture’ for this unit of work
To begin learning poetry devices used
To begin exploring a poem focusing on your own understanding

Lesson Outcomes
Read, understand and respond to texts.
AO1  Develop an informed personal response
 Use textual references including quotes to develop own interpretation

Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve
AO2 effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views.
 Homework: Due Friday 8th January
In poetry, poets use a range of language and structural techniques throughout their
work. Make yourself a glossary of the most common techniques. You should include,
the name of the technique, a definition (in your own words), and an example from a
real poem. An example is below. Aim for 5 language techniques, and 5 structural
techniques.

Technique Definition Example

Personification Giving human characteristics to “golden daffodils…dancing in the
something non-human. breeze”
- William Wordsworth
Exam Structure
AQA GCSE English Literature

Paper 1 46% Paper 2 54%

Section A: Section B: Section A: Section B (Part 1): Section B (Part 2):

Modern 19th Century Novel Shakespeare Unseen Poetry Unseen Poetry
Prose/Drama Jekyll and Hyde Macbeth Analysis Comparison
An Inspector 30 Marks 34 Marks 28 Marks 8 Marks
Calls
30 Marks

Total exam time: Total exam time:

1 hour and 40 minutes 1 hour and 45 minutes

You will sit the English Literature GCSE at the end of Year 10.
Unseen Poetry
What it looks like: How to tackle it:
You will be given a poem that you have
(probably) never seen before and asked a
Question One:
question about it. This is worth 24 marks.  10 minutes reading & annotating
Then you will be given a second unseen poem.  20 minutes writing
You will be asked to write a short comparison of
 Two PEEADEL paragraphs
the two poems. This is worth 8 marks.

In total, this makes Unseen Poetry worth more Question Two:

marks than Jekyll and Hyde.
 5 minutes reading & annotating
 10 minutes writing
 One PEECPEED paragraph
 Translate the mark scheme into your own

Translation
words. What is the exam board actually
asking you to do?

I think this means… I think this means…

Level 4  A clear focus on the question

(13-16 marks)  A range of quotations used in interpretations
 Clear and accurate identifications and exploration of
writer’s techniques
 Exploration of the effect on the reader

I think this means… I think this means…

Revision Guides
Revision guides are not essential. However, they are invaluable. You do not
need to get all three! If you are going to invest your money, only buy one of
them. Type the ISBN number into Google/Amazon/Waterstones/WHSmith etc.
to find the book.

York Pearson
CGP
Notes
ISBN-13:  ISBN-13:  ISBN-13:
978-1782943648 978-1292186344 978-1292230115
Subjectivity
Without speaking, write down one word that sums up
your opinion on each of these well-known figures. Once
you have your four words, let’s share.
Is anybody wrong?

One main thing to know about poetry is that it is

completely subjective. This means that we could read a
poem together and all have completely different ideas
and opinions about it. And we’re all entitled to our
opinion – none of us are right and none of us are wrong.
 A Quick Poem
Trees by Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
1) Read the poem.
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
2) Write two sentences: Did you like it? Why/why
A tree that looks at God all day,
not?
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear 3) After reading the poem, what do you think the
A nest of robins in her hair; message is? What is the poet trying to tell you, the
Upon whose bosom snow has lain; reader?
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
EXT: Can you pick out any poetic techniques? What are they and
why do you think they have been used?
Quick Fire Quiz
Stanza
A group of lines of verse, usually separated from other
Can you write a groups.

definition for the Personification

When human characteristics are given to something non-
following poetic terms? human.
Caesura
A break or pause in a poem. Usually indicated by
punctuation.
Give yourself a mark out Metaphor
of five. A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a
way that isn’t literally true. Used to help explain an idea or
make a comparison.
Semantic Field
A set of words that are all linked to a similar theme.
Review
What have you learned about
Unseen Poetry in today’s
lesson? List three things.

Then, list one thing that you

would like to know.