Part of the KS3 English curriculum.
KS3 English Year 9: Unseen and Comparative Poetry: Place, Power and Identity is a step-by-step online learn guide for Key Stage 3 pupils in Years 7 to 9. It covers approaching an unseen poem: a reading strategy, the Tyger: questions, creation and power, composed upon Westminster Bridge: the city as nature, the Darkling Thrush: Hardy at the turn of the century, remember: Rossetti and the volta, still I Rise and Island Man: voice and identity and comparing poems: structuring a comparative essay, then brings it all together with mixed retrieval and unit challenge.
There are 23 short steps of about 15 minutes (roughly 6 hours of learning), each made of bite-size explanations with key words, tables and examples, and every bite-size is followed by an activity you check straight away. Key terms include Unseen, Speaker, Rhetorical question, Trochaic rhythm, Romanticism, Sonnet, Darkling, Contrast, Volta, Imperative, Free verse and Refrain.
