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Written By Jason, Jacqui, Racheal, Tara and lenita.(Miss
Crowe)
Our online website enables you to find out all you need to know to sail through your GCSE English Exams. We include information
on Different Cultures Poems (Cluster 2), The Pre-1914 Bank, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Of Mice and Men.
The Simon Armitage poems that are key to learn and will be named in the exam are: 'Mother any Distance greater than',
'Homecoming', 'Kid', and 'Hitcher'. Other poems that you may like to write about from the Simon Armitage cluster include:
'My father thought it', 'November', 'Those bastards in their mansions', and 'I've made out a will'.
All the key poems will be explained and wrote about on this site!!!!!
The Carol Ann duffy poems that will be named in the exam and are jey for you to leatrn are: 'Havisham', 'Anne Hathaway',
'Before you were mine', 'Education for leisure'. Other poems you may want to write about in the exam can include: 'Elvis's
Twin Sister', 'Salome', 'We remeber your childhood well', and 'Stealing'. All the Carol Ann Duffy poems are explained and
wrote about on this site!!!!!!
The Pre 1914 poetry bank is a range of poems from a range of poets. This is the biggest cluster and the poems that could
be named in your exam from this cluster are: 'On my first Sonne', 'Sonnet 130', 'My Last Duchess', and 'The Laboratory'.
Other peoms that you may want to learn include: 'The song Of the Old Mother', 'The Affliction of Margaret', 'Little boy lost
and Little boy found', Tichbournes Elegy' and 'The Man he Killed'
The more poems you learn and revise the more variety of questions you will be able to choose from, and help
you acheive a grade A.
On your exam paper you will be asked a question on Of mice and Men. Our site will give you a better understanding of
this literarure prose and help you with exam questions and how the background of the author can influence themes and explainations
of the book. There will be notes on The story, The characters, themes and settings.
So far all the poems and and Of mice and Men only helps you with your english literature. To help with you english language
we are going to look at poems from the different cultures and traditions section. These poems may include: 'Search for my
tounge', 'Not my business', 'Half-caste', Hurricane Hits England', Unrelated Incidents', 'Love after Love', This Room'. This
poems will all be mentioned on our site and will have brief notes on each explaining them in easier terms.
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Simon Armitage


Of Mice and Men


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