1. Peer-assessment
Swap books with your partner and read the paragraphs they wrote for homework.
With a different colour pen, provide feedback that is:
Kind
Specific
Helpful

2. Starter: quick recap with your partner
What strategies for tackling unseen poetry did we develop last lesson?
How long do you have for the first unseen question?
What are the examiners looking for in a good response?

3. Unseen comparison Paper 2 Section C has two questions:
The first question (that we practised yesterday) is worth 24 marks and should take you 30 minutes.
The second question is worth 8 marks, and should take you 15 minutes.
The second question will give you a focus and ask you to make comparisons between two poems, one of which you will have already written an essay on.

4. Mark scheme – what do you need to do?
Make clear links between the two poems
Comparison of the effect of methods on the reader (IDEAS)
Use reference to the writer’s methods to support those connections – including subject terminology
There is no need for an introduction or conclusion – no reference here to an argument – launch straight in with your paragraphs

5. In what ways is this poem similar/different to ‘To a Daughter Leaving Home’?
Remember that you could talk about:
Imagery
Tone/Speaker
Structure
Language

6. Aim for two paragraphs comparing the poems
While [poem A] conveys , [poem B] suggests...
Both [poem A] and [poem B] evoke a sense of……………………, but [poem A] is more than [poem B].
[poem A] highlights to the reader that... . Conversely, [poem B]...
[poem A] and [poem B] are similar in that they..., but there is a significant difference in the way they...
TASK: write two topic sentences (the first sentence or ‘P’ of your paragraph) which show that you are comparing. Here are some useful phrases to help you:

7. DIRT time – reflect on the effectiveness of this paragraph.
Both Pastan and Lochhead highlight the vulnerability of the younger figure, to emphasise the sense of protection that a mother or older sister might feel. For example, Pastan uses the image of the daughter becoming ‘more breakable’ as she cycles into the distance, and the onomatopoeia of ‘crash’ and ‘thud’ to create pathos as the reader, along with the mother, imagines the danger that the daughter might experience as she grows up. Similarly, Lochhead continually modifies the noun ‘sister’ with the adjective ‘little’ to highlight how small and vulnerable the younger sister is, and isolates the word ‘wobbles’ on a short line in the first stanza to highlight how she is too small and weak with her ‘spindle-thin’ legs to wear high heels. The reference to a spindle may be a reference to Sleeping Beauty, a fairy-tale allusion that may further emphasise how child-like and young the sister is.

8. YOUR TURN
You have 10 minutes...

9. Homework
Revise for a terminology spellings test.