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| Charlotte Dymond 1: A
presentation to help students create a dramatic reading of the
poem. |
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| Lefty and Ned: Write
your own version of 'The Sad Story of Lefty and Ned'. |
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| Similes and metaphors:
Revisit similes and metaphors and write a metaphor poem. |
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| The Gresford Disaster: A
copy of the poem with a link to more information (including a
radio broadcast from the time, a later news item about the pit
and photographs. |
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| The Gresford Disaster 1:
A very simple cloze exercise to summarise the story. |
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| The Gresford Disaster 1a:
A series of activities on this narrative poem culminating in
writing a newspaper article. |
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| Newspaper template GD:
Template for the newspaper article in the Gresford Disaster 1a
presentation above. |
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| Compare two ballads:
Simple structure for an essay on 'The Gresford Disaster' and
'The Ballard of Charlotte Dymond'. Grid and suggested structure
also available as Word documents. |
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| Comparison table GD and
CD: Simple grid to compare the use of similies and metaphors in
'The Gresford Disaster' and
'The Ballard of Charlotte Dymond'. |
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| Compare GD and CD essay
structure: A simple essay structure on 'The Gresford Disaster' and
'The Ballard of Charlotte Dymond'. |
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| The Highwayman 1: The
first six verses of 'The Highwayman' and some accompanying
questions. |
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| The Highwayman 2:
Questions on 'The Highwayman'. |
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| The Highwayman 4:
Some true/false questions. Students also need to find quotations
to prove they are correct. |
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| The Inchcape Rock: A copy of the poem by Robert Southey. |
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| The Inchcape Rock
opposites: Activities and a table to complete on the opposites imagery in
the poem. |
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| The Inchcape Rock
summary 1: A summary of the poem on numbered cards. |
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| The Inchcape Rock
summary 2: A summary of the poem on muddled cards, ready for a card sort. |
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| The Lady of Shalott: A
task to investigate characters and images in 'The Lady of Shalott'. |
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| Mistletoe intro: A
number of tasks to explore the poem. |
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| The Mistletoe Bough 1: A
copy of the poem. Ask students to annotate, pick out words that
suggest the changing tension, storyboard or re-write as a
Christmas Ghost story. |