Teaching PowerPoints for all fourteen poems in the AQA Love Through the Ages pre-1900 anthology, in one bundle.

Each deck is built for close study of a single poem. It moves through four phases: **Connect**, **Activate**, **Demonstrate** and **Consolidate**. There is no fixed lesson structure, so you can teach a poem in one, two or three lessons to suit your timetable and your group. **Poems included** - Sir Thomas Wyatt – *Whoso List to Hunt* - William Shakespeare – *Sonnet 116* - John Donne – *The Flea* - Richard Lovelace – *The Scrutinie* - Andrew Marvell – *To His Coy Mistress* - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – *Absent From Thee* - Robert Burns – *Ae Fond Kiss* - William Blake – *The Garden of Love* - Lord Byron – *She Walks in Beauty* - John Keats – *La Belle Dame sans Merci* - Christina Rossetti – *Remember* - Thomas Hardy – *The Ruined Maid* - Thomas Hardy – *At an Inn* - Ernest Dowson – *Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae* **What each PowerPoint contains** - The full text of the poem, set out for close reading and annotation - Phase-coded slides you can rearrange or select from - Activities for close analysis of language, form and structure - Context woven into the reading of the poem (AO3) - Critical perspectives for discussion (AO5) - A consolidation phase that moves students towards essay writing and comparison - Full teacher guidance in the presenter notes: activity instructions, answers and model responses. Every deck can be taught from the PowerPoint alone. **Why this bundle?** *Love Through the Ages* asks students to compare how love is written across five centuries. Teaching the whole anthology with one consistent approach lets students build a shared vocabulary for comparison, from Wyatt’s courtly pursuit to Dowson’s late-Victorian regret. That comparison is where the strongest exam answers start. The resources are mapped to the Assessment Objectives. Please check them against the specification you are teaching. **About A Level AHEAD** A Level AHEAD resources are written by Andy Hurley, a former Principal Examiner, HMI Inspector and Headteacher with more than thirty years in education. Free poetry seminars that go with these resources are available on the A Level AHEAD YouTube channel (@alevelahead) and at andyhurleyahead.com.**