Love's Dog - teaching resource

Love’s Dog by Jen Hadfield – GCSE Poetry Teaching Resource

Help students explore Jen Hadfield’s ‘Love’s Dog’ with this two-lesson GCSE English Literature resource, designed for the Edexcel Relationships poetry anthology.

The editable PowerPoint guides students through the poem’s meaning, language, themes, form and structure. Clear explanations, varied activities and example answers help pupils develop their interpretations and support their ideas with evidence.

The resource includes:

• An introduction to Jen Hadfield and the poem’s context
• Picture predictions and a love-and-hate discussion starter
• Comprehension and analysis questions with example answers
• A storyboard activity exploring the poem’s imagery
• Exploration of love and hate, identity, control, honesty and vulnerability
• Analysis of repetition, rhyme, couplets and the poem’s ending
• A single-poem essay task with a model response
• Comparison activities linking ‘Love’s Dog’ with Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnet 43’
• A comparative essay question, planning guidance and model answer

Written for GCSE students, the activities develop close reading, quotation analysis and comparative writing skills. The PowerPoint is fully editable, allowing teachers to adapt the lessons to suit their classes.

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