Name Journeys - teaching resource

Name Journeys – Raman Mundair

AQA GCSE English Literature – Worlds and Lives Anthology

Two-Lesson Teaching Resource

Support your students in exploring Raman Mundair’s powerful and thought-provoking poem Name Journeys with this fully editable, classroom-ready two-lesson teaching pack. Written specifically for the AQA GCSE English Literature Worlds and Lives anthology, this resource builds secure understanding of context, language, themes, imagery, form and structure while developing the analytical skills needed for confident, exam-ready responses.

What’s Included

Two complete lessons covering the poem in depth

A 35-slide PowerPoint filled with engaging, carefully structured activities

Contextual study of Mundair, migration, identity and cultural displacement

First-reading tasks to introduce key ideas and support initial interpretation

Close language and imagery analysis with clear model responses

Theme exploration including heritage, assimilation, mispronunciation, identity and cultural resistance

Detailed teaching on free verse, enjambment and structural choices

Comparative skills tasks preparing students for anthology comparison questions

Essay practice with writing frames, scaffolds and model paragraphs

Plenary and recap activities to consolidate understanding

What Students Will Learn

How Mundair explores cultural identity, belonging and the emotional weight of names

How mispronunciation, language loss and imagery reveal the speaker’s sense of displacement

How free verse, flow and structural movement mirror the speaker’s shifting identity

How to compare Name Journeys effectively with poems such as Pot, Homing and On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955

Fully editable and ready to teach, this resource makes analysing Mundair’s moving and culturally rich poem clear, engaging and exam-focused. Click 'View All Slides' to preview the whole resource.

For additional teaching resources from the Worlds and Lives cluster visit:

Lines Written in Early Spring – William Wordsworth

England in 1819 – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee – Emily Brontë

In a London Drawingroom – George Eliot

On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 – James Berry

Pot – Shamshad Khan

A Wider View - Seni Seneviratne

Homing - Liz Berry

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