Year 11 - English
Reviewing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry
Unseen poetry
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils prepare for the unseen poetry in their Literature GCSE by reading poems, studying different poetry methods, and developing personal responses. They start by looking at ideas in single poems, before developing their comparative skills and writing comparisons of two unseen poems.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to reflect on and rewrite an extended comparative response on ideas of transience in unseen poetry.
Key Notes
- Reflecting on your work is an important part of understanding what went well and what you could improve on.
- Rewriting your work is a chance to improve it based on your reflections.
- When writing comparatively, you want to explore the similarities and differences in how the poets create meaning.
- When considering a personal response, you may ask yourself what questions the poems cause you to ask.
Vocabulary To Learn
- transience: the state or fact of lasting only for a short time
- reflecting: thinking deeply or carefully about
- clarity: the quality of being clear and easy to understand
- rewriting: the act of writing a text again, in order to improve it or change it
- effective: successful in producing a desired or intended result
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- That you can only analyse what techniques a poet chooses to use.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Reflecting on your work is an important part of understanding what went well and what you could improve on. Rewriting your work is a chance to improve it based on your reflections.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'transience'
the state or fact of lasting only for a short time.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: That you can only analyse what techniques a poet chooses to use. Correction: Sometimes it's very powerful to analyse why a poet may have chosen not to use a technique in contrast to one who did choose to use it.
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