Teaching Pack
Teaching Pack - teaching ideas and resources for Larkin’s ‘Essential Beauty’. Lesson planning ideas and resource materials for active learning, critical thinking and creative approaches to explore the poem in detail.

Lessons are structured around, but not limited to, the following learning continuum:
Connect - Activate - Demonstrate - Consolidate.

This is the content page from the Teaching Pack:

Contents
Introduction to A Level AHEAD 3
Nostalgia — Overview 3
Planning Learning and Teaching Activities: Nostalgia 4
Connect Phase (Choose 1–2 activities) 4
Activate Phase (Choose 1–2 activities) 5
Demonstrate Phase (Choose 2–3 activities) 6
Consolidate Phase (Choose 1–2 activities) 7
Activities — Detailed Implementation 7
Connect Phase Activities 8
Activate Phase Activities 10
Demonstrate Phase Activities 12
Consolidate Phase Activities 15
Student Handouts 19
Handout 1: Annotation Framework for Nostalgia 19
Handout 2: Essay Planning Sheet 21
Handout 3: Creative Writing Framework 23
Handout 4: Comparative Analysis Planner 24
Handout 5: Research Investigation Sheet 26
Teacher Planning: Interactive Quizzes and Activities 27
Google Forms Question Bank — Teacher Version 28
Paper Task Version 32
Student Version — Nostalgia Quiz 32
Alternative Activities 34
Performance and Interpretation 34
Sensory Displacement Mapping 34
Diary of a Mercenary 34
Alliteration and Pace 35
The Dwindling Light 35
Cross-Curricular Connections 35
Documentary Project 35
Essay Challenges 35
Debate and Discussion 36
Critical Contexts and Further Reading 36
Critical Perspectives 36
Critical Voices on Duffy More Broadly 37
Suggested Further Reading 37
Assessment Objectives Alignment 38