This worksheet supports GCSE students in analysing Kayo Chingonyi’s poem Grief.

It includes structured comprehension questions, focused quotation analysis, a connotations task exploring Chingonyi’s language choices, and scaffolded writing activities that build towards a clear, exam-style analytical paragraph.

The resource helps students explore key ideas about youth violence, identity, social inequality, media representation, and collective grief, while developing skills in close textual analysis, word choice, and interpreting poetic methods.

Includes:

• Comprehension questions linked to key moments in the poem
• Quotation analysis tasks focused on language, identity, and representation
• Connotations and writer’s choices activity
• Model analytical paragraph
• Guided planning frame
• Independent analytical writing task

Ideal for classwork, homework, intervention, revision, or cover.