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For commissions, questions or feedback, please e-mail me at jpresourcesuk@gmail.com
A revision lesson (or lessons if you want to do more with the initial card revision activity) for the new Eduqas poetry anthology (2025 - first examination in 2027) question for GCSE English Literature.
Students will use the enclosed resources to briefly revise the poems from the cluster before identifying the four or five key poems they should revise for the examination. This encourages analytical and evaluative connections. This is best used once the students know the poems well and understand the requirements of this question.
Included:
Blank revision cards for a starter activity which can be extended into a whole lesson activity (with one card modelled)
Poem linking and choice grid with eleven example exam questions
Lesson PowerPoint with 18 slides
Lesson plan with guidance as to how to adapt this activity across two lessons
Check out my individual Edexcel Relationships anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here
This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the new Eduqas poetry anthology (2025): ‘The Schoolboy’; ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’; ‘Cousin Kate’; ‘Sonnet 29’; ‘Drummer Hodge’; ‘Disabled’; ‘I Shall Return’; ‘Decomposition’; ‘Catrin’; ‘Blackberry Picking’; ‘Kamikaze’; ‘War Photographer’; ‘Dusting the Phone’; ‘Remains’; and ‘Origin Story’.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through both parts of an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource, ‘Island Man’
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the new Eduqas poetry anthology (2025) for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the new Equqas poetry anthology (2025) for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Claude McKay’s ‘I Shall Return’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Zulfikar Ghose’s ‘Decomposition’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Eve L Ewing’s ‘Origin Story’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Jackie Kay’s ‘Dusting the Phone’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Remains’ by Simon Armitage from the Power and Conflict Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Simon Armitage’s ‘Remains’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy from the Power and Conflict Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘War Photographer’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Seamus Heaney’s ‘Blackberry Picking’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland from the Power and Conflict Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Beatrice Garland’s ‘Kamikaze’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Catrin’ by Gillian Clarke from the Conflict cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Gillian Clarke’s ‘Catrin’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Wilfred Owen’s ‘Disabled’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Thomas Hardy’s ‘Drummer Hodge’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Sonnet 29’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning from the Love and Relationships Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
