We started a lesson off a fortnight ago by recapping all of the knowledge we knew about Havisham from National 5. After annotation of the poem and talking through the trickier bits, I challenged the class to put the poem in its correct order with no support, then to look at a series of questions on the poem in mixed groups.
The class had as long as they needed to answer 4-8 questions on each stanza before they moved on to a different base.
After this, the class looked at exemplar essays before planning an essay as a whole class based around an atmosphere of despair (SQA 2018).
Individual essays of this were written over the course of a double period then marked on merit, to great success! 🙂
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