Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2: Complete 15-Poem Teaching Bundle - from Smithy's Basics

A complete, professionally designed poetry teaching programme for all 15 prescribed poems — ready to teach, easy to adapt and built to develop confident, perceptive literature students. Poems included: This bundle contains complete teaching packs for all 15 poems from Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 3, prescribed for Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English 0475: * “The Road” — Nancy Fotheringham Cato * “The Instant of My Death” — Sarah Jackson * “The Bus” — Arun Kolatkar * “At the Bus Station” — Julius Chingono * “These are the Times We Live in” — Imtiaz Dharker * “The Enemies” — Elizabeth Jennings * “Boxes” — Sampurna Chattarji * “The Capital” — W. H. Auden * “an afternoon nap” — Arthur Yap * “Plaits” — Elizabeth Smither * “Children of Wealth” — Elizabeth Daryush * “Rich and Poor or, Saint and Sinner” — Thomas Love Peacock * “A Long Journey” — Musaemura Zimunya * “Touch and Go” — Stevie Smith * “Song” — George Szirtes These are the 15 poems listed by Cambridge International for Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 3 in the 2026 and 2027 Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English 0475 syllabuses. Each unit includes: * editable teaching presentations * context resources * close-analysis guidance * student activities * retrieval practice * card-linking tasks * exam questions * exemplar essays * teacher guidance. This bundle is ideal for: * Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English 0475 * schools teaching the complete Songs of Ourselves Volume 2 selection * Year 10 and Year 11 poetry teaching * first teaching of the poems * revision programmes * examination preparation * intervention and catch-up lessons * independent study * cover lessons and homework These packs are designed to used alongside the teacher and students' own personal copies of the anthology from the official distributors. I only upload resources that have been tried, checked, edited and applied to my own teaching experience. Happy teaching and learning! Smithy