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Shall earth no more inspire thee (0)

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Shall earth no more inspire thee (0)

The Émigrée (0)

Storm on the Island (0)

Valentine (0)

Lines Written in Early Spring (0)

Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?) (0)

Ozymandias (0)

The Orange (0)

The Red Wheelbarrow (0)

We Real Cool (0)

Emily Writes Such a Good Letter (0)

Adlestrop (0)

Macbeth (0)

Much Ado About Nothing (0)

Romeo and Juliet (0)

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POET

Emily Brontë (0)

Wilfred Owen (0)

Carol Rumens (0)

Seamus Heaney (0)

Carol Ann Duffy (0)

William Wordsworth (0)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (0)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (0)

Wendy Cope (0)

William Carlos Williams (0)

Gwendolyn Brooks (0)

Stevie Smith (0)

Edward Thomas (0)

William Shakespeare (0)

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Éanna Hardwicke (0)

Rosie Sheehy (0)

Josh Tedeku (0)

Varada Sethu (0)

Asim Chaudhry (0)

Toby Jones (0)

Tyreke Leslie (0)

Keri Mosuro (0)

Edward Bluemel (0)

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End-stopping (0)

Enjambment (0)

First World War (0)

Iambic Pentameter (0)

Imagery (0)

Intention (0)

Line Endings (0)

Metre (0)

Modernism (0)

Poetic Diction (0)

Rhyme (0)

Rhythm (0)

Tone (0)

WJEC Eduqas (0)

Wordplay (0)

'Before You Were Mine'

From AQA Love and Relationships and CCEA Relationships.

Audience

Strand

Poems

'Before You Were Mine'

by Carol Ann Duffy

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Keywords

AQA Love and Relationships CCEA Relationships

From AQA Power and Conflict and EdExcel Conflict

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Strand

Poems

by Wilfred Owen

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Keywords

AQA Power and Conflict EdExcel Conflict

'Lines Written in Early Spring'

From the AQA Worlds and Lives Anthology

Audience

Strand

Poems

'Lines Written in Early Spring'

by William Wordsworth

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Performed by

Keywords

AQA Worlds and Lives

'Shall earth no more inspire thee'

From the AQA Worlds and Lives Anthology

Audience

Strand

Poems

'Shall earth no more inspire thee'

by Emily Brontë

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Keywords

AQA Worlds and Lives

'War Photographer'

From AQA Power and Conflict and WJEC Eduqas

Audience

AQA Eduqas WJEC

Strand

Poems

'War Photographer'

by Carol Ann Duffy

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Performed by

Keywords

AQA Power and Conflict WJEC Eduqas

from 'The Prelude'

From AQA Power and Conflict and EdExcel Conflict

Audience

Strand

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Videos

Performed by

Michael Balogun

Keywords

AQA Power and Conflict EdExcel Conflict

Understanding Lady Macbeth through the imagery she speaks in.

Audience

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4

Strand

Plays

by William Shakespeare

Videos

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Keywords

Imagery Intention Poetic Diction Tone

A lesson to get your class thinking critically about Shakespeare’s imagery.

Audience

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4

Strand

Plays

by William Shakespeare

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Keywords

Imagery Intention Poetic Diction Tone

Understanding that a poem is the result of individual choices.

Audience

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4

Strand

Poems

Videos

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Keywords

Intention Poetic Diction Tone

Why does a line of poetry end?

Audience

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4

Strand

Poems

'The Red Wheelbarrow'

by William Carlos Williams

'Emily Writes Such a Good Letter'

by Stevie Smith

by Gwendolyn Brooks

Videos

Performed by

Keywords

End-stopping Enjambment Line Endings Modernism Rhyme Rhythm

Line Endings in Shakespeare

What Shakespeare’s line endings can tell us about his characters.

Audience

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4

Strand

Plays

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Videos

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Keywords

End-stopping Enjambment Iambic Pentameter Intention Metre

From AQA Power and Conflict and WJEC Eduqas

Audience

Strand

Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Videos

Performed by

Keywords

AQA Power and Conflict WJEC Eduqas

Poetry vs Prose

Exploring what makes poetry poetry.

Audience

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4

Strand

Poems

by Edward Thomas

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Keywords

First World War Imagery Intention Poetic Diction Tone

How to notice the difference between rhythm and metre.

Audience

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4

Strand

Plays

by William Shakespeare

Videos

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Keywords

Iambic Pentameter Intention Metre Rhythm

'Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?)'

From EdExcel Relationships, WJEC Eduqas and CCEA Relationships

Audience

Strand

Poems

'Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?)'

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Videos

Performed by

Keywords

CCEA Relationships EdExcel Relationships WJEC Eduqas

'Storm on the Island'

From the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology

Audience

Strand

Poems

'Storm on the Island'

by Seamus Heaney

Videos

Performed by

Éanna Hardwicke

Keywords

AQA Power and Conflict

'The Émigrée'

From AQA Power and Conflict and EdExcel Belonging

Audience

Strand

Poems

'The Émigrée'

by Carol Rumens

Videos

Performed by

Keywords

AQA Power and Conflict EdExcel Belonging

From EdExcel Relationships and WJEC Eduqas

Audience

Strand

Poems

by Carol Ann Duffy

Videos

Performed by

Keywords

EdExcel Relationships WJEC Eduqas

A lesson that introduces wordplay, how it works in Shakespeare, so that you can do it for yourself.

Audience

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4

Strand

Plays

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Videos

Performed by

Keywords

Imagery Poetic Diction Wordplay

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