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Pot by Shamshad Khan – AQA GCSE English Literature (Worlds and Lives) | Complete Teaching Resource

This comprehensive AQA GCSE English Literature teaching resource provides in-depth, classroom-ready lessons on 'pot' by Shamshad Khan, from the Worlds and Lives Poetry Anthology. Designed for KS4 students, it supports teachers in delivering confident, exam-focused lessons that develop understanding of context, language, themes, structure, and comparison skills.

The resource includes fully structured lessons that guide students from first reading through to detailed analysis and GCSE-style extended writing. Clear explanations, scaffolded tasks, and model responses help students engage critically with key ideas such as identity, belonging, colonialism, cultural theft, displacement and diaspora.

This teaching resource includes:

Context slides exploring Shamshad Khan’s background, colonial history and museum artefacts
First reading and comprehension activities with sentence starters and model explanations
In-depth language, imagery and symbolism analysis, including personification and direct address
Clear exploration of themes: identity and belonging, colonialism, displacement, history and heritage
Analysing form and structure, including free verse, enjambment and open endings
Exam-style questions with high-quality model answers
A scaffolded GCSE essay question focused on identity and belonging
Guided comparison work linking 'pot' with other anthology poems such as 'Name Journeys'
A proven A-L-O-T essay framework (About, Language, Organisation, Themes) to support comparative writing

Ideal for Year 10 and Year 11, this resource is suitable for whole-class teaching, revision lessons, or independent study. All materials are clearly laid out and aligned closely to AQA assessment objectives, making it an essential resource for teaching 'pot' with confidence and depth.

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 Drawing Room – George Eliot

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

Name Journeys – Raman Mundair

Pot – Shamshad Khan

Homing - Liz Berry

A Century Later - Imtiaz Dharker

A Wider View - Seni Seneviratne

The Jewellery Maker - Louisa Adjoa Parker