Worlds and Lives: Poetry Anthology Resource Pack for GCSE AQA
Explore your chosen cluster of poems with these student-friendly packs. Visual overviews, analysis, mind maps and exam preparation lead students through each poem and theme in the GCSE AQA Poetry Anthology. Everything you need to tackle these poems in class, for homework or as revision.
1. Detailed Individual and Whole-anthology Analysis!
- Develop understanding of each poem with insightful and thorough analysis. Each poem is concisely summarised in a visual overview sheet, then investigated in depth.
- Take a broader look by exploring key themes, ideas and issues shared across the anthology.
- Key quotation analysis included throughout.
The content is exam focused and contains well written material
2. Effective AO Support!
- Differentiated questions to deepen understanding and encourage informed, personal responses needed to hit AO1.
- Use short comprehension questions for homework or quick-fire classwork and ‘deeper thinking’ questions to stretch and challenge high flyers!
- AO2 focused ‘Language Close-up’ and analysis – provides insight on key literary and linguistic features.
- Valuable contextual and biographical info for each poem to meet AO3 requirements.
- PLUS! ‘Link’ boxes and comparative mind maps help students discover connections and comparisons across poems.
Really useful as it covers all AOs and provides extensive background content
3. Excellent Exam Prep!
- Original exam-style essay questions with indicative content – great practice for the real thing!
- Helpful exam tips and guidance so students can develop and refine exam technique.
- Suggested answers for questions and activities – makes peer- or self-marking simple.
- Includes two sample essay answers per pack with examiner commentary and AO mark-up – students find out what the examiner is looking for and how to improve their answers.
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What do teachers say about this resource? (12249)
The content is exam focused and contains well written material for the ‘Worlds and Lives’ cluster... As a teacher this is an excellent resource to aid planning... Really useful as it covers all AOs and provides extensive background content... I would be confident as a teacher that everything has been addressed... The ‘make the link’ questions are challenging but do encourage the more able to make excellent comparative links.
A very helpful, effective resource that will support teachers with this new anthology. The resource offers a range of approaches and key information that can be easily used in the classroom... I like the key information about each poem... The essay response section that includes different levels of response is a good idea. The questions on each poem are helpful (it's good to see suggestions for answers too), and I particularly liked the deeper thinking questions as these are good for discussion... The longer, prose 'analysis' of each poem is useful in showing how this knowledge can be incorporated into longer paragraphs of writing. I like this section, and there is a valuable and thorough level of detail. The 'make the link' boxes are useful to promote thinking and discussion as well as for building comparisons. The comparison mind-maps are a useful springboard into essay writing and comparison of poems for students.