Thread by @__codexterous, For anyone teaching GCSE Lit Love & Relationships here’s a THREAD with [...]

For anyone teaching GCSE Lit

Love & Relationships

here’s a THREAD with lots of stuff that might help!

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First the best thing I’ve created for the poetry anthology

A completely remodelled anthology and a post outlining how I use it

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http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/08/25/how-i-teach-the-gcse-poetry-anthology/

Next these QR coded links to massolit lectures for each poem

https://codexterous.home.blog/resources/

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And the essay structure I use for this question

https://codexterous.home.blog/resources/

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And now some blog posts exploring key poems in the cluster

http://codexterous.home.blog/2019/08/18/an-analysis-heaneys-follower/

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An Analysis: Heaney’s ‘Follower’

One of my favourite (if not the favourite) poems in the GCSE Love and Relationships AQA Anthology, Seamus Heaney’s ‘Follower’ is a wonderful poem. Stylistically complex and emotio…

http://codexterous.home.blog/2019/08/18/an-analysis-heaneys-follower/

http://codexterous.home.blog/2019/08/21/an-analysis-mother-any-distance/

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An Analysis: Mother, Any Distance

This poem is from the 1993 collection Book of Matches so titled because each poem is supposed to be read in twenty seconds, the time it takes for a match to burn. This is significant for this parti…

http://codexterous.home.blog/2019/08/21/an-analysis-mother-any-distance/

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/09/12/an-analysis-neutral-tones-by-thomas-hardy/

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An Analysis: Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy

Context, Plot and Connections Despite being best known as a novelist, Hardy also had a fruitful poetic career. This particular poem is very typical of his general style as evident in other works: i…

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/09/12/an-analysis-neutral-tones-by-thomas-hardy/

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/09/26/an-analysis-when-we-two-parted-by-lord-byron/

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An Analysis: When We Two Parted by Lord Byron

Context & Plot Byron’s fellow Romantic poet William Wordsworth once remarked that poetry was the ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ and one notices that in this poem the speaker …

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/09/26/an-analysis-when-we-two-parted-by-lord-byron/

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/11/13/an-analysis-winter-swans-by-owen-sheers/

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An Analysis: Winter Swans by Owen Sheers

The poem begins with the weather mimicking the emotion of the couple: ‘The clouds had given their all –’. At a literal level, this image is referencing how the clouds have expended all of their rai…

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/11/13/an-analysis-winter-swans-by-owen-sheers/

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/12/19/an-analysis-walking-away-by-cecil-day-lewis/

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An Analysis: Walking Away by Cecil Day-Lewis

What is it about? A father, the speaker, watches his son play football at school. As his son walks away from him he becomes worried that their relationship has fundamentally changed, since his son …

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/12/19/an-analysis-walking-away-by-cecil-day-lewis/

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/12/21/an-analysis-loves-philosophy/

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An Analysis: Love’s Philosophy

Throughout the poem Shelley refers to the speaker’s love by comparing it to natural imagery and the natural order. He uses this imagery in order to try and seduce the woman he is addressing: he is …

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/12/21/an-analysis-loves-philosophy/

Now a model essay for the anthology

http://codexterous.home.blog/2021/05/01/a-model-response-for-gcse-poetry-anthology-neutral-tones-and-winter-swans/

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A Model Response for GCSE Poetry Anthology: Neutral Tones and Winter Swans

Compare how poets present attitudes towards a broken relationship in Neutral Tones and one other poem When considering how Hardy presents a broken relationship in Neutral Tones one also immediately…

http://codexterous.home.blog/2021/05/01/a-model-response-for-gcse-poetry-anthology-neutral-tones-and-winter-swans/

And kind of related...how I structure comparative questions, including the anthology

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/10/31/teaching-compare-and-contrast-via-passing-references/

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Teaching Compare and Contrast via Passing References

Most, if not all, English Literature specifications at GCSE and A Level require the student to make points of connection between two texts, something either explicitly stated in the specification o…

http://codexterous.home.blog/2020/10/31/teaching-compare-and-contrast-via-passing-references/

And finally lots of forms quizzes including some for L & R https://twitter.com/__codexterous/status/1363052651538169856

https://twitter.com/__codexterous/status/1363052651538169856

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