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Understand meaning in Year 9 English

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Focus on analysing meaning in poems and fiction extracts. Start with “Analyse the Meaning of a Poem: 'Sonnet' by John Clare”, then explain the idea in your own words.

Year 9 learners practise analysing meaning in poems and fiction extracts.

The activities include Analyse the Meaning of a Poem: 'Sonnet' by John Clare, Analyse a Non-Fiction Text: A Leaflet on Safety in the Home, Analyse Fiction: Mr Gradgrind, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching, practice. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

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  • Analyse the Meaning of a Poem: 'Sonnet' by John Clare
  • Analyse a Non-Fiction Text: A Leaflet on Safety in the Home
  • Analyse Fiction: Mr Gradgrind
  • Analyse the Language Used to Show Context in Fiction: Coketown
  • Analyse the Meaning of the Poem: 'Tich Miller'
  • Analyse the Meaning of the Poem: My Last Duchess
  • Explore the Portrayal of Atmosphere in a Text: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'
  • Revise Themes in ‘Of Mice and Men’

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Featured Poem: Sonnet by John Clare

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Creating Layered Language Analysis

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Gender in Of Mice And Men

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Critical reading

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Tich Miller by Wendy Cope

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