- Select two poems by Armitage or Heaney and create a spidergram or pictogram, describing the content, the themes, the structure and the significant and important phrases or language devices that best express the meaning of each poem.
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- Read through the poems by Armitage or Heaney and divide them into themes such as: death, family relationships, growing up, conflict, nature. Identify two ideas or phrases that particularly express the theme of each poem you have identified. Using a thesaurus,, explain and explore the meaning. Write about this in your own words, beginning: The poet is suggesting that …
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- Spend 30 minutes on the bbc bitesize web-site looking at some of the poems you have been studying, and extend and develop your notes.
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- Select two poems from the pre-1914 selection. Choose three phrases from each that best sum up for you the content and meaning of the poem. Explore the meaning of the words in detail.
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- Select two poems by Clarke or Duffy and create a spidergram or pictogram, describing the content, the themes, the structure and the significant and important phrases or language devices that best express the meaning of each poem.
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- Read through the poems by Clarke or Duffy and divide them into themes such as: death, family relationships, growing up, conflict, nature. Identify two ideas or phrases that particularly express the theme of each poem you have identified. Using a thesaurus,, explain and explore the meaning. Write about this in your own words, beginning: The poet is suggesting that …
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- Create a spidergram or map of the following aspects of each of your short stories: narrator and point of view, setting, characters, themes and language features that support the themes. Try and map these summaries onto one A4 page for each story.
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- Compare the parent-child relationships from two of your short stories. Support your comparison by referring to language in each story.
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- Select two poems from the pre-1914 selection that deal with nature. Make a map or pictogram describing the content, the themes, the structure and the significant and important phrases or language devices that best express the meaning of each poem.
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- Plan an answer to the following question on your poetry:
Compare the way that poets write about murders or possible murders in at least 4 poems that you have studied. Write about “Hitcher , Education for Leisure and two poems from the pre-1914 bank. Remember to compare the murders in each poem and how the poets present murder in their language.
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- Write an essay comparing the themes and language used in two of your short stories. Remember to make a six point plan, and add ides for the evidence (language references) you will use onto your plan, before you try to write.
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