Romp through the Romantics: Poetry for Gifted and Talented for GCSE
Inspire and challenge your high-achieving students with this dynamic, self-contained workbook, covering eight appealing and well-loved Romantic poems. All resources are provided, so they’ll be in charge of their own learning – keeping busy while acquiring valuable new knowledge and skills.
One of the best resources I have seen ever... Would go down a treat amidst G+T pupils... Will push the very smartest to achieve great things in English
Before reading, each poem is introduced with:
- Concise poet biography and historical context, including ‘juicy gossip’!
- Key ideas and features to look for while reading
- Student-friendly definitions of key poetic and literary terms
Use in class as an extension, or for homework. Perfect preparation for unseen poetry!
Then students engage with the content and build analytical skills with structured, progressive activities:
- Comprehension questions and summary-writing challenges test knowledge
- ‘Tuff Stuff’ extension questions use higher-order thinking
- Creative activities invite active and interdisciplinary learning
Clearly set out with bite-size subsections
Plus! ‘Help Desk’ pages give suggested answers and ideas for each poem
GCSE students will enjoy the light-hearted language, combining educational content with a sense of fun. As the author says, ‘students will be so joyfully busy that they aren’t even aware of quite how much they are learning!'
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What do teachers say about this resource? (1771)
'One of the best resources I have seen ever. This comical, yet appropriate and factual resource amazed me. I have no doubts that this would go down a treat amidst G+T pupils... I love this resource! [The] tasks [are] apt and useful... The humour in this is brilliant [and it] doesn’t get in the way of the information the resource conveys. It will help to engage the students further in poetry – something I feel is desperately needed... I believe students will lock onto this resource and find it invaluable. It will push the very smartest to achieve great things in English... Fabulous resource! I love it!
It was clearly set out with bite-size subsections and therefore this could be easy to pick and choose from.
I liked the fact that the timeline was written in short, simple sentences using accessible vocabulary at the start.
A great deal of useful contextual information is provided for each poem. Specialist terms are used in a suitable way to challenge enquiring minds and the terms relate to high grade exam requirements for language and structure. The resource is broken into subheaded sections making it clear to navigate and pick out desired content.
Keywords
- GCSE English Literature
- GCSE English Literature Gifted and Talented Challenge Pack
- Gifted and Talented
- English Gifted and Talented
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lord Byron
- Percy Shelley
- John Keats
- ‘My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold’
- ‘The World Is Too Much With Us’
- The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
- ‘Apostrophe to the Ocean’
- ‘Ozymandias’
- ‘Ode to the West Wind’
- ‘When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be’
- ‘Ode to a Nightingale’