1. Learning Questions: HOW DO POETS USE WORDS TO CREATE IMAGES? WHAT DO THESE IMAGES TELL US ABOUT THE THOUGHTS, FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS IN THE POEM?

2. GCSE Eng/Eng Lit COURSEWORK EXAMS Original Writing Media Shakespeare 20 th Century Drama (play) Prose Study (Novel) 3 Speaking & Listening Assessments Eng Paper1 Sec A: Questions on Non Fiction & Media texts Sec B: Writing to Argue Persuade or Advise Eng Paper 2 Sec A: Other Cultures Poetry Sec B: Writing Inf/Ex/Descr Lit Paper: ‘Of Mice & Men ’ And Poetry (Heaney & Clarke) Lang: 40% Lit:30% Lang:60% Lit:70% S K I L L S 20% of the 40%

3. LOSS DEATH

4. New learning question: HOW DO I ‘ANNOTATE’ A POEM TO HELP WITH MY REVISION?

5. Cradled through England between flooded fields rocking, rocking the rails, my head-phones on, the black box of my Walkman on the table. Hot tea trembles in its plastic cup. I’m thinking of you waking in our bed thinking of me on the train. Too soon to phone. The radio speaks in the suburbs, in commuter towns, in cars unloading children at school gates,

7. ‘ Sonnet’ By John Clare