Units from The Poetry Pack - Developing Critical Skills at 14 to 19 (Download)

Drawn from EMC's popular The Poetry Pack, this PDF download offers a wide repertoire of strategies, centred on a range of popular pre-20th century and World War 1 poems, to develop students' abilities to read and respond critically to poetry.

Strategies:

• Exploring fragments of a poem
• Poetry or prose? Exploring lineation     
• Reading as a writer – quarry of words 
• Verse by verse or line by line 
• Mixed-up poems 
• Poetry consequences 
• Reading as a writer
• A story in verse or poetry
• Arguing back to a poem 
• Exploring the poetic process 
• Writing a critical commentary 

The resource includes a PowerPoint of the four poems in 'Verse by verse or line by line' to allow you easily to show these poems a line at a time via a data projector.

Poems:

• W.B. Yeats: ‘The Cold Heaven’
• Wilfred Owen: ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’,  ‘The Send-off’ and ‘The Next War’
• Siegfried Sassoon: ‘Does it Matter?’
• Thomas Hardy: ‘Afterwards’
• Emily Dickinson: This World is Not Conclusion
• John Clare: ‘I am’
• William Blake: ‘The Garden of Love’ and ‘The Sick Rose’
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: ‘The Windhover’
• Tennyson: ‘Ulysses’
• Tennyson: ‘Mariana’ and Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
• Andrew Marvell: ‘To His Coy Mistress’
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: ‘An Answer to Love Letter’
• Robert Browning: ‘My Last Duchess’

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