1. Approaching the Unseen Poem

3. Step 1: Identify the key word in the question

4. Step 2: Read the poem. At the end of each stanza summarise what you have learnt in relation to the question (in this case what you have learnt about the geography teacher

5. What have you learnt about the geography teacher from the poem?
Step 2: Read the poem. At the end of each stanza summarise what you have learnt in relation to the question (in this case what you have learnt about the geography teacher
What have you learnt about the geography teacher from the poem? P1 P2 P3

6. Step 3: Introduction Introduction In the poem…
Name the poem and the poet
Summarise in a list of three adjectives what you learn about the geography teacher.

7. Language
Structure
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
Simile, metaphor, personification, pathetic fallacy
Declarative, exclamatory, imperative, interrogative
Short sentences, multi-clause sentences
Type of poem: narrative, ballad, lyric and then stanza style: quatrain, tetrain
Rhyme – free verse, internal rhyme, rhyming couplets,
Repetition
Contrast - juxtaposition
Step 4: Main body
WHAT?
What have we learnt about the geography teacher?
HOW?
How have we learnt this?
Evidence – quotation (x3 ideal short quotations)
Techniques used – both language and structure:
WHY?
What do we learn about the geography teacher from
the evidence and the techniques? What can be
inferred?