Year 8 Term 2: Conflict & Poetry

About This Course

Build transferable analytical skills through conflict poetry exploring humanity and the cost of war, then explore Shakespeare's language and stagecraft in Macbeth and Julius Caesar. Develop comparative essay skills. This is a KS3 unit teaching transferable poetry-analysis skills; references to AQA Power & Conflict anthology poems are intentional GCSE-preparation cross-references, not a prescribed KS3 anthology. Aligned to 8R.1-8R.7 and 8W.2-8W.7.