Poetry 2 : get ready for SEC English literature

Abstract

This workbook is one of two specifically aimed at students sitting for the new SEC English Literature examination. It is intended to help students study poetry and get ready to be examined on it, and it does this by leading students to learn about poetry, understand it as a literary genre, and engage with it by developing a personal response to the poems. In this way, the Workbook goes beyond examination practice and provides students with the scaffolding required to develop the skills to analyse poems. Students work through several tasks that teach and not merely test, and students gradually develop the ability to express this awareness in writing. Writing frames help students structure their writing, and a specific focus on language provides them with the necessary words and phrases to answer the examination questions and satisfy the assessment criteria. Each Unit focuses on one poem from those set in the English Literature syllabus, together with another poem. The second poem in each unit functions as an example of the unseen poem that the students will need to tackle in the examination. Also available is a Teacher's Book that provides a pedagogical guide to complement the teacher's skills, and answer keys to the tasks in the Workbook.