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Five tricks to help your students get to grips with a new poem

[Traveling In The Dark] is not a poem that is written to support a position that I have chosen, it’s just a poem that grows out of the plight I am in as a human being. William Stafford The poem ‘Traveling Through The Dark’ by William Stafford is one of my favourite poems to share…
Teach your students how to compare poems for GCSE English Literature, Paper 2, Section B

Learn some of these brilliant strategies for teaching really effective poetry comparison for GCSE English Literature, Paper 2, Section B. One of the elements of our students’ exam performance we identified as a weakness in last summer’s examination series was comparing poems from the AQA poetry anthology, Poems Past and Present, which forms part of…