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Poetry & Prose Anthology: ‘Still I Rise’ Revision

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Poetry & Prose Anthology: ‘Still I Rise’ Revision

This content provides an in-depth analysis of Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise," focusing on its themes of resilience, empowerment, and defiance. It discusses the speaker's bold voice, powerful imagery, and the significance of language techniques, aiming to enhance students' understanding and confidence for their Edexcel GCSE assessments.

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William Wordsworth: ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’

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William Wordsworth: ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’

A compendium of useful links, exemplar material, resources and home learning: Lines Written in Early Spring: A Summary

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William Blake: ‘Holy Thursday’ Innocence

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William Blake: ‘Holy Thursday’ Innocence

The content provides a collection of valuable resources for studying William Blake's works, specifically 'Holy Thursday' from the Innocence collection, along with relevant podcasts and notes. Notable mentions include an annotated poem, a Radio 4 podcast discussion, and critical materials from GetRevising for deeper understanding.

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Poems of the Decade: Homework Schedule

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Poems of the Decade: Homework Schedule

  Week 1: Watch ‘The Deliverer’ A-level Literature Playlist   Week 2: Essay: How is suffering presented within the Poems of the Decade collection? 1000 words Watch ‘Giuseppe’ A-level Literature Playlist   Week 3: Watch ‘Out of the Bag’ A-level Literature Playlist     Week 4: Essay: How is the memory or identity depicted in [...]

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Romantic Poetry: Homework Schedule

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Romantic Poetry: Homework Schedule

Romanticism: Our home study schedule Week 1: Read ‘Pastoral Poetics’ for William Blake. Highlight and make notes ready for discussion. Read the introduction of The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry p1-16 Week 2: Read ‘A few lines written about Tintern Abbey’ ahead of analysis Read and annotate Growth of the Classical in Wordsworth’s Poetry [...]

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Poems of the Decade: Coping with Difficulty

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Poems of the Decade: Coping with Difficulty

Compare the ways in which poets present people coping with difficulties in ‘Please Hold’ and ‘A Minor Role’   O’Driscoll and Fanthorpe portray a wide sense of people coping with difficulties all throughout both ‘Please Hold’ and ‘A Minor Role’. Both poems interweave a sense of nihilism, time passing and the progressiveness of suffrage. However, [...]

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Presentation of Age in ‘Poems of the Decade’ Anthology

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The class flipchart compares three poems from the 'Poems of the Decade' Forward Anthology, focusing on how age is presented in "Easy Passage," "To My Nine-Year Old Self," and "A Leisure Centre is a Temple of Learning." Note that the latter is included only in the Edexcel International A-Level collection.