Themes in Romantic Poetry
In this lesson, you will be introduced to the Romantic era of literature and its key themes.
Unit Overview: Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Revolution
For next step we recommend the unit: Romantic poetry and paired texts: Revolutionary and Protest poetry.
For next step we recommend the unit: Romantic poetry and paired texts: Nature poetry.
Lessons:
12 lessons
William Blake and the Industrial Revolution
In this lesson, we will introduce the Romantic poet William Blake and explore his response to the Industrial Revolution.
Language and Themes in 'The Chimney Sweeper'
In this lesson, we will learn about the life of a young chimney sweep in the 18th and 19th centuries, before exploring Blake's use of language and themes in his poem 'The Chimney Sweeper'.
Writing about 'The Chimney Sweeper'
In this lesson, we will learn how to use appositives in our writing. We will then apply our knowledge of 'The Chimney Sweeper' by writing an analytical paragraph about how Blake presents injustice in 'The Chimney Sweeper'.
The Life and Times of Percy Bysshe Shelley
In this lesson, we will be introduced to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, before considering his response to 'The Peterloo Massacre'.
The Masque of Anarchy
In this lesson, we will be introduced to Percy Shelley's 91 stanza poem, 'The Masque of Anarchy' and explore its narrative, before considering Shelley's purpose in writing the poem.
Language and Themes in 'The Masque of Anarchy'
In this lesson, we will be introduced to Shelley's use of personification, before exploring his use of contrasting images of power in 'The Masque of Anarchy'.
Writing about 'The Masque of Anarchy'
In this lesson, we will learn how to use embedded quotations in our writing. We will then apply our knowledge by writing an analytical paragraph about how Shelley presents power in 'The Masque of Anarchy'.
Life and Times of Mary Robinson
In this lesson, we will be introduced to Mary Robinson, an 18th century Romantic poet. We will explore the divide between rich and poor before being introduced to her poem, 'The Birth-day'.
Exploring 'The Birth-day'
In this lesson, you will explore the narrative of 'The Birth-day' before considering Robinson's purpose in the poem.
Language in 'The Birth-Day'
In this lesson, we will be introduced to the term 'ignorant' and explore the ignorance of the upper classes through Robinson's use of language and emotion in 'The Birth-day'.
Themes in 'The Birth-Day'
In this lesson, we will look at how Robinson uses structure to explore key themes in 'The Birth-day'. We will consider both the poem's stanza structures and Robinson's use of turning point in the poem.
Units in English
- The Oral Tradition
- Epic Poetry
- The Canterbury Tales: 'General Prologue'
- The Refugee Tales: 'Prologue', ed. Anna Pincus and David Herd
- The Canterbury Tales: 'The Knight's Tale', Chaucer
- Telling Tales, Patience Agbabi
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Introduction and Act 1)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 2)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 3)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 4&5)
- Contemporary Short Stories (1/2): The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
- Contemporary Short Stories (2/2): Sweetness by Toni Morrison
- Introduction to poetry
- The sonnet through time: Introduction to the sonnet
- The sonnet through time: 'Sonnet 18', Shakespeare
- The sonnet through time: 'Death, be not proud', Donne
- The sonnet through time: 'If thou must love me', Barrett-Browning
- The sonnet through time: 'If we must die', Claude McKay
- The sonnet through time: 'The sonnet-ballad', Gwendolyn Brooks
- Creative writing: short stories
- Creative writing: poetry
- Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs
- Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters
- Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists
- Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns
- Avoiding fragments, fused sentences and comma splices. Using capital letters and writing in the past tense. Using multiple subordinate clauses, punctuating lists correctly when in a complex sentence.
- Paragraphing narratives for clarity, using possessive pronouns, using apostrophes accurately, structuring, writing and editing genre-specific narratives
- Introduction to Tragedy
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 1
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 2
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 3
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 4 and 5
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Introduction to the Romantics
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Nature
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Nature poetry
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Revolution
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Revolutionary and Protest poetry
- Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Workhouse
- Oliver Twist: Oliver Heads to London
- Oliver Twist: Oliver is Caught
- Oliver Twist: Oliver, Bill & The Maylies
- Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Consequences
- Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
- Creative writing: memoir
- Rhetoric: Introduction to rhetoric
- Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth
- Rhetoric: Change: Michelle Obama & Lennie James
- Rhetoric: Motivate: Churchill & Gandhi
- Rhetoric: Writing rhetoric
- Shakespearean Comedy - The Tempest
- Language Skills - Fiction - Reading
- Language Skills - Fiction - Writing
- Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Reading
- Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Writing
- Grammar for Writing
- The Short Story
- Gothic Literature
- Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing
- Non-Fiction texts and view point writing
- Jane Eyre
- Animal Farm
- Paragraphing non-fiction writing, including presenting a balanced argument