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This lesson is designed for students preparing for the Edexcel IGCSE English Literature exam. Focusing on Vernon Scannell’s poem Hide and Seek, it guides learners through a detailed exploration of childhood, vulnerability, and emotional growth. The lesson balances close language analysis with thematic discussion, helping students develop the skills needed for both extract and whole-poem responses.

Lesson Stages and Features:

• Starter Activity: Students unpack the title’s connotations and make predictions about characters, emotions, and tone.
• Vocabulary Upgrade Task: “Shows” is banned – students generate more sophisticated alternatives, building precision in analytical writing.
• First Reading with Thematic Focus: Students consider questions about childhood experience and cruelty, developing interpretations of tone and speaker.
• Language Carousel Activity: In a collaborative, rotating format, students analyse key lines, building on each other’s ideas and annotations with a focus on imagery, structure, and tension.
• Form and Structure Analysis: Students examine the effect of free verse, enjambment, caesura, and single-stanza form in relation to themes of isolation and suspense.
• Essay Scaffold and Model: A paragraph model and PETAL-style frame guide students in planning and writing a response to the question “How is childhood presented in Hide and Seek?”
• Final Reflection: Students reflect on the poem’s moral or message and write a short response supported by textual evidence.