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Poetry Cluster - Romanticism and Nature - Year 7 English

Summary of topic:

  • Understanding the structure of poems in the collection
  • Writing about the differences and similarities between poems
  • Understanding the contextual factors for poets such as: Wordsworth, Yeats and Margret Postgate Cole
  • Understanding how to vary sentence functions in my writing

Newspaper articles: 

Margaret Postgate Cole - AQA - Anthology Zone 
All Poetry - Margaret Postgate Cole
Poetry Foundation - Margaret Postgate Cole
The Literature Network - Yeats
The Poetry Foundation - Yeats
The Poetry Archive - Yeats
The Literature Network - Wordsworth
BBC History - Wordsworth
Poets.org - Wordsworth


Video clips and documentaries:

Introduction to Wordsworth
Life and works of William Wordsworth
Introduction to Wordsworth, Poet and Father of English Romanticism
Yeats the Public Man - NY Times
William Butler Yeats Biography
Analysis of The Falling Leaves by Margaret Postgate Cole
AQA Conflict poetry - The Falling Leaves by Margaret Postgate Cole


Further reading:

The Poetry Hour - Margaret Postgate Cole
Poets.org - WB Yeats

Assessment/Test and answer sheet:

KPIs:

8- Understanding the context of the poems
11- Writing about the similarities and differences between texts
16- Using a range of sentence functions accurately in my writing

Typical questions for the assessment in this unit:

How does Wordsworth/Yeats/Postgate Cole show the theme of… in this poem?
How is man’s relationship with nature presented in this poem?
How is nature used to convey human emotion in this poem?

 

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