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This fully-resourced lesson is designed for students studying Christina Rossetti’s sonnet Remember as part of the Edexcel IGCSE English Literature (4ET1) Poetry Anthology. It supports students in developing a secure understanding of the poem’s ideas and techniques, while encouraging personal reflection on themes of love, loss, memory, and emotional selflessness.

Lesson Stages and Features:

• Sonnets & Technique Matching Starter: A matching task introduces or revises key poetic terms—Volta, Octave, Metaphor, Anaphora, and Imagery—laying the groundwork for confident analysis.
• Contextual Introduction: Concise contextual notes explore Rossetti’s life, faith, and Victorian values, helping students appreciate how the poem reflects both personal and social attitudes towards death and remembrance.
• Guided Reading and First Impressions: Students read the poem closely with questions prompting reflection on tone, imagery, and the speaker’s relationship with the addressee. Focused attention is given to the tactile imagery, metaphor of the “silent land,” and the emotional turn at the volta.
• Language and Structure Analysis: Clear explanation of the Petrarchan sonnet form supports understanding of the poem’s structure as a ‘problem–solution’ format.
• Model Paragraph and PETAL Planning: Includes an exemplar analytical paragraph and PETAL paragraph scaffold to support students in crafting independent, well-structured exam-style responses.