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- ISBN:9781107455184
- Format:Cambridge Elevate
- Subject(s):English Literature
- Qualification:AQA
- Author(s):Trevor Millum, Andy Mort, Peter Thomas
- Available from: September 2015
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A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 GCSE English qualifications.
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A single one-year site licence for an unlimited number of teachers and students.
Cambridge Elevate-enhanced Editions are fully customisable and interactive, with extensive annotation and bookmarking tools making texts more accessible for students.
‘Assess to Progress’ on Cambridge Elevate provides expert marking support, progress tracking and reporting to save teachers time.
Cambridge Elevate-enhanced Editions include rich digital content created by English teachers with students’ needs in mind.
Cambridge Elevate-enhanced Editions allow teacher–student messaging, helping you connect with your class in a timely and practical way.
Available online and on tablet devices through the Cambridge Elevate app.
Includes one unit for each of the poems in the AQA poetry anthology, Poems Past and Present, containing the full poem, contextual information and engaging activities to bring you closer to the poem.
Features a special section for each of the two AQA poetry anthology clusters (‘Love and relationships’ and ‘Power and conflict’), building skills in comparing anthology poems.
A dedicated section on unseen poems, including six additional poems and extensive support on exploring and comparing unseen poems, develops confidence for this aspect of the exam.
Free Cambridge Elevate Teacher’s Resources with each Cambridge Elevate-enhanced Edition allow for easy linking and cross reference, and provide comprehensive planning support with additional opportunities for differentiation and extension.
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- Exploring and comparing poetry
- Poems past and present – the AQA Anthology
- Cluster 1. Love and relationships: Unit 1. When We Two Parted – Lord Byron
- Unit 2. Love's Philosophy – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Unit 3. Porphyria's Lover – Robert Browning
- Unit 4. Sonnet 29 – 'I think of thee!' – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Unit 5. Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy
- Unit 6. The Farmer's Bride – Charlotte Mew
- Unit 7. Walking Away – Cecil Day-Lewis
- Unit 8. Letters from Yorkshire – Maura Dooley
- Unit 9. Eden Rock – Charles Causley
- Unit 10. Follower – Seamus Heaney
- Unit 11. Mother, any distance – Simon Armitage
- Unit 12. Before You Were Mine – Carol Ann Duffy
- Unit 13. Winter Swans – Owen Sheers
- Unit 14. Singh Song! – Daljit Nagra
- Unit 15. Climbing My Grandfather – Andrew Waterhouse
- Unit 16. Comparing poems: Developing skills in comparing poems
- Poem pair 1. 'Walking Away' and 'Follower'
- Poem pair 2. 'Neutral Tones' and 'Winter Swans'
- Poem pair 3. 'Mother, any distance' and 'Before You Were Mine'
- Example response. 'Love's Philosophy' and 'The Farmer's Bride'
- Cluster 2. Power and conflict: Unit 1. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Unit 2. London – William Blake
- Unit 3. Extract from The Prelude – William Wordsworth
- Unit 4. My Last Duchess – Robert Browning
- Unit 5. The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Unit 6. Exposure – Wilfred Owen
- Unit 7. Storm on the Island – Seamus Heaney
- Unit 8. Bayonet Charge – Ted Hughes
- Unit 9. Remains – Simon Armitage
- Unit 10. Poppies – Jane Weir
- Unit 11. War Photographer – Carol Ann Duffy
- Unit 12. Tissue – Imtiaz Dharker
- Unit 13. The Emigrée – Carol Rumens
- Unit 14. Kamikaze – Beatrice Garland
- Unit 15. Checking Out Me History – John Agard
- Unit 16. Comparing poems: Developing skills in comparing poems
- Poem pair 1. 'Bayonet Charge' and 'Exposure'
- Poem pair 2. 'Storm on the Island' and 'Ozymandias'
- Poem pair 3. 'Kamikaze' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
- Example response. 'London' and the extract from 'The Prelude'
- UNSEEN POETRY: Develop your response: poem pair 1
- Develop your response: poem pair 2
- Improve your response: poem pair 3
- Improve your response: poem pair 4
- PREPARING FOR YOUR EXAM: Practice questions. Section B Poetry
- Section C Unseen poetry
- Practice questions: Section C Unseen poetry
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
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Trevor Millum
Trevor was an English Teacher and Head of Department for many years before becoming and Advisory Teacher for English and ICT. He has worked with a range of educational publishers producing innovative teaching materials focusing on creativity, poetry and ICT. He was previously the Director of Communications and Development at NATE and is an experienced workshop leader. He is the creator of and poet in residence at Teachit's Poetry Place, where he has written over 150 teaching resources.
Andy Mort
Andy worked as an experienced Head of English for many years. He has a particular interest in contemporary poetry and previous experience of writing about poetry appreciation for GCSE students.
Peter Thomas
Peter has previously been a Lecturer in Education, an English Teacher and an Advisory Teacher and is involved in English curriculum development and assessment. He has been an Associate Fellow of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, researching good practice in teaching the more able and is currently working with The Globe Education department as well as the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Peter has written for the national press, educational journals and NATE Classroom on various aspects of the English curriculum and its assessment. Publications include editions of Dickens novels as well as various GCSE support materials
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