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Narrative Poetry

Lefty and Ned: Write your own version of 'The Sad Story of Lefty and Ned'.
Similes and metaphors: Revisit similes and metaphors and write a metaphor poem.
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.
The Gresford disaster 1: A very simple cloze exercise to summarise the story.
The Highwayman 1: The first six verses of 'The Highwayman' and some accompanying questions.
The Highwayman 2: Questions on 'The Highwayman'.
The Highwayman 4: Some true/false questions. Students also need to find quotations to prove they are correct.
The Lady of Shalott: A task to investigate characters and images in 'The Lady of Shalott'.
Mistletoe intro: A number of tasks to explore the poem.
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.