Exploring the Eduqas poetry anthology

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In 'Poetry anthology', pupils compared the language, form and structure of a variety of poems. In 'Poetry anthology continued', pupils work on making more nuanced comparisons between poems.

In 'A World at War: Poetry', pupils explore how poets presents the atrocities of World War One through their poetry. In 'Poetry anthology', pupils analyse how a variety of different wars have been presented through poetry.

Poetry anthology: first study

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

a recurring object that represents an idea

a universal idea explored through the text

a language device that uses comparison to describe

The Eduqas poetry anthology contains texts dating back to...

The Eduqas poetry anthology covers four main themes: war, power, relationships and...

It can help us to see how writing has improved over the centuries.

It can help us to understand our own writing better.

It shows us how the world we inhabit today has been shaped by history.

It can show us how much moral and social progress the world has made.

Why can reading texts from multiple centuries be useful and valuable?

Which of the following responses might a person have to this quotation from 'Ozymandias': “Look upon my Works ye Mighty, and despair!”

a kind of text that is shorter than one page in length

a type of text that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language

a text that has multiple narrators and/or perspectives

a form of text that has no fixed structure

The person whose perspective the poem is written from is called the...

Poems can often make use of rhyme. The organisation of these rhymes is called...

It is written with a specific reader in mind.

Why do you think poetry sometimes makes use of rhythmic qualities?

 A verse in a poem is otherwise known as a...

a collection of poems all from the same time period

a selection of texts that share a similar subject or form

a collection of texts that have not been read before

a selection of texts from the last 100 years

Content guidance

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Adult supervision recommended

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