Contents
1 Before you start reading the poems
(i) Poetry – what it is and how we study it
(ii) The idea of a collection
(iii) The poet, Philip Larkin
2. Work on the collection
- Bulletin board 1: Cross reference grid
- Bulletin board 2: Why the title?
- Bulletin board 3: Themes
- Activity 1: What are the common denominators?
- Activity 2: What does the poet seem to be interested in? What are his themes?
- Activity 3: Who is talking? The dramatic monologue: Confessional (i)
- Activity 4: Reconstruction
- Activity 5: Who? Confessional (ii)
- Activity 6: Who? You!
- Activity 7: Sound and rhythm
- Activity 8: Similes
- Activity 9: Metaphors
- Activity 10: Symbols
- Activity 11: Extreme language
- Activity 12: How? Match the symbols to the abstract ideas
- Activity 13: Where? Scenes of the crime
- Activity 14: When, exactly, did the crime take place – past, present or future?
3. Work on the poems
- Activity 1: The forensic approach
- Activity 2: What’s your hunch? Different interpretations of a poem.
- Activity 3: Lie detector test. Does this poet always mean what it looks as if he means?
- Activity 4: Under the microscope
- Activity 5: Video footage. Looking at moving evidence
- Activity 6: Listen carefully
4. Exam practice
- Activity 1: Consolidate your notes
- Activity 2: Concentrate your ideas
- Activity 3: Practise finding your way round the text
- Activity 4: Alternative interpretations
- Activity 5: Think about how to use quotations
- Activity 6: How far do you agree with this judgement of the poem?
- Activity 7: The ‘How far do you agree that this poem is the key to the collection?’ question
- Activity 8: The ‘How far do you agree that Poem X is in an appropriate position in the collection?’ question
- And finally …
5. Teacher’s notes
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Further information
Sections 1–3 provide information and activities for classroom and homework to support reading the poems.
Section 4 provides advice and activities which guide students through the process of writing exam essays on High Windows for AQA. It includes:
- how to analyse essay questions
- how to hit the Assessment Objectives
- how to tackle the exam
- how to turn a C into an A
- analysis of sample questions.
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