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  • Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Comprehensive Guide for AS AQA B (With Recordings)

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Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Comprehensive Guide for AS AQA B (With Recordings)

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  • AQA B AS

Hardy’s often overlooked poetry is a fantastic option for ‘Aspects of Tragedy’ for AQA B. The selected poems mix tradition with innovation, and there is much to explore in Hardy’s use of metre and form.

Both NQTs and experienced teachers would find it invaluable in planning new schemes of work; it would literally save days of someone’s time!!

J Colby, Teacher & Peer Reviewer
This specially written guide analyses every stanza individually, and prompts personal response with discursive and creative activities. Fantastically clear and comprehensive analysis allows students to get to grips with all the poems.

Engage your students!

Includes debate prompts; active learning tasks; further reading suggestions; key literary and linguistic terms throughout!

Tackles the key stages of text analysis:

  1. Walk-through
    Thorough section-by-section commentary walks students through each poem
  2. Drawing it all together
    In-depth discussion of whole text focuses on: characterisation, relationships, genre, themes, attitudes and values, language, form, structure, context, literary approaches
  3. Indicative content
    To support teaching by making sure all key areas are covered

Students will learn of the poetic intentions and through the creative tasks will explore authorial intentions

V Kondou, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Plus! A glossary of key terms ensures full understanding

Now available with recordings!

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What do teachers say about this resource? (11103)

It will save a lot of time for teachers and is also a way of ensuring that all teachers have the same quality of analysis available if there are multiple classes being taught by different teachers. Both NQTs and experienced teachers would find it invaluable in planning new schemes of work; it would literally save days of someone’s time!! The quality of the information is excellent in respect to all aspects of the publication – context, poem analysis, critical reception.

J Colby, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Helps students understand language analysis.

L Meredith, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Well presented. Very detailed... I liked how it explained the linguistic devices... Students will learn of the poetic intentions and through the creative tasks will explore authorial intentions.

V Kondou, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Keywords

  • A level English Literature
  • A Level Comprehensive Guide
  • A Level English Literature Comprehensive Guide
  • A Level AQA B English Literature (7717)
  • Aspects of Tragedy
  • A Sunday Morning Tragedy
  • At an Inn
  • Tess’s Lament
  • Under the Waterfall
  • Lament
  • Rain on a Grave
  • Your Last Drive
  • The Going
  • The Haunter
  • At Castle Boterel
  • A Trampwoman’s Tragedy
  • The Frozen Greenhouse
  • The Forbidden Banns
  • The Mock Wife
  • The Flower’s Tragedy
  • After a Journey
  • The Newcomer’s Wife
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Hardy
  • Poetry

Well presented

V Kondou, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Very detailed

V Kondou, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

It will save a lot of time for teachers

J Colby, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Both NQTs and experienced teachers would find it invaluable in planning new schemes of work; it would literally save days of someone’s time!!

J Colby, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Helps students understand language analysis

L Meredith, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Students will learn of the poetic intentions and through the creative tasks will explore authorial intentions

V Kondou, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

I liked how it explained the linguistic devices

V Kondou, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

The quality of the information is excellent in respect to all aspects of the publication – context, poem analysis, critical reception

J Colby, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

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