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How to Write a Level 5 Poetry Essay (A-level English lit)

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AS and A-level English Literature A 7711; 7712

Teaching guide: Love through the ages

A range of resources to help you plan your teaching and assessment for the Love through the ages component of AS and A-level English Literature A.

How to use these resources

If you haven't yet decided on which texts or text combinations to teach, the specimen assessment materials give you details about some of the aspects of Love through the ages each text covers, which can help you decide. Don't forget to consult the specification for a list of possible aspects.

Once you have decided, these documents will help you to focus your teaching on those aspects and to work towards the relevant exam question in the specimen assessment materials. The exemplar student responses with marking commentary act as models for the students and help you to assess their work.

AS resources

Paper 1, section a.

Paper 1, Section B

Paper 2, Section A

The collection of unseen prose extracts can be used to support the learning objective of week 7 in our autumn term teaching plan (Co-teaching programme of study) - approaching unseen extracts essay writing skills.

Using the extracts allows students to:

Paper 2, Section B

A-level resources

Paper 1, Section C

Document URL https://www.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/as-and-a-level/english-literature-a/teach/love-through-the-ages-resource-package

Last updated 06 Sep 2021

Unseen Poetry A Level-A* EXEMPLAR ESSAYS

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I am currently on a gap year with a place to study Biochemistry at Oxford. I studied OCR Biology, OCR Chemistry, AQA English Literature and Edexcel History. I achieved A*A*A*A* in my A Levels so I'm sharing my revision notes to help others achieve top marks. Feel free to email me with any questions - [email protected] :) I am also available for ONLINE A-LEVEL and GCSE TUTORING (I achieved A*A*88999999999 in GCSEs as well). Pop me an email for more information! Best of luck :)

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I achieved an A* in AQA English Literature A Level - here is a document with 3 unseen poetry comparison A* (band 5) essays. The marks each essay achieved are - 24/25, 25/25, 25/25. These include a copy of the supporting poems. These essays were marked by an AQA Examiner. The best way to learn how to reach the top marks is to analyse exemplar essays like these - to see how to enhance your own essay style to easily achieve consistent A*s :)

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I achieved an A* in AQA English Literature A Level - here are all my exemplar essays for different texts. There are 12 exemplar essays in total - 8 achieved 25/25, 3 achieved 24/25 and 1 achieved 23/25. These are all in Band 5 and high A* standard. An AQA Examiner marked these. Studying exemplar essays was the best and easiest way that got me to A* standard myself. Invaluable resource :)

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Why I love…An A Level Unseen Poetry Essay Structure

I’m tutoring a student for A Level English Literature, which is brilliant, as I love teaching A Level and my student is hugely enthusiastic and really listens and adapts her ideas/thinking/approaches (which is also brilliant).

We started by talking about the Assessment Objectives that underpin the essay criteria – A01 and A02 and discussed the way that the question will be framed and how this is very ambiguous:

In your response you are required to analyse how meanings are shaped.

(choice of two poems)

Analyse in detail the following poem. (30 marks)

We decided the key here is the meaning and how that can be drawn out.

We looked at past examiner feedback that stated the key to understanding was reading the poem and re-reading. With this in mind we talked about timing:

Exam total – 2 hours

Unseen Prose – (50 marks) 1 hour 15 minutes

Unseen Poetry – (30 marks) 45 minutes

For the Poetry this then divides into – 10 minutes reading and planning a response (focusing on what the poem means) – 30 minutes writing – 5 minutes editing.

After discussing this we went through the planning process. We decided that due to the vagueness of the question, framing a question around the summary of meaning was a good approach, so that the essay was focused and could adopt a sophisticated approach.

We also discussed the essay structure and how the meaning would drive the overall number of paragraphs and how the meaning should be drawn out. For A Level, unlike GCSE we would be thinking about the paragraphs as an organic part of the writing, rather than trying to teach an overall structure. In this way, there is more freedom for the interpretation, at least that is the intent!

As you can see at the bottom of the poem, we discussed how to start planning to time. This was because we both annotated the same poem, using the planning notes from earlier.

At the end of the session, we both wrote an introduction thinking about the rules we’d explored previously and how this could support what we wanted to say in the essay.

Both myself and the student had never studied the poem before. I used the wonderful @becky1820 (s) resources for this session, as she shared them with me, for the purpose of tutoring, and I only hope I’ve done them justice. The student will go on to write the essay independently and we’ll look at it together in another session.

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I hope that this is useful. I enjoyed the rich discussion around the process, the poem and just generally the love of the subject.

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Unseen Poetry A Level-A* EXEMPLAR ESSAYS
I achieved an A* in AQA English Literature A Level - here is a document with 3 unseen poetry comparison A* (band 5) essays.
Why I love…An A Level Unseen Poetry Essay Structure
I'm tutoring a student for A Level English Literature, which is brilliant, as I love teaching A Level and my student is hugely enthusiastic