GCSE unseen poems

[Cobmum]

I’m hoping one of you lovely mumsnetters are able to point my DD in the right direction please. Unseen poems. She hadn’t a clue. What does she need to be doing please?

I just asked dd and she said she doesn't really know either. So all I can say is; great question and I hope someone who knows replies soon.

Watch

That video is good. Are they going through all this in her lessons? The similes, the lovely sound of the word soothe etc?

When she says she doesn't have a clue, she actually does already know lots of this stuff, in the video, so is it more a confidence issue?

You are right; it's a confidence issue.

The unseen poetry analysis tests skills i.e. the skills they will have been taught when learning about the poems in their cluster. The pupils at my school did better than, last year, on the unseen poems than on the poems they had been taught - proving that they hadn't revised enough.

I second Mr Bruff, and there is also a good CGP guide.

HTH

Sorry for the extra 'than'. Not quite awake yet.

Ooh thank you for the Mr Bruff video. I’ll show her that when returns from dog walk.

Just focus on understanding what is happening/the meaning of the poem and focus in on a few words for close language analysis. Depending on the board there's only 15 possible poets I think so looking at some of their poems might help.
I examined the poetry exam for AQA a few years ago and without fail, as long as students had given themselves time, the unseen poetry question was always their best answer- I imagine because they were not concerned with trying to rehash what their teachers had said about the poems and hence some really interesting, original thoughts.