Curriculum Relevance
England
Teachers familiar with the list of major poets published before 1914 in the En2 reading requirements for English KS3 and 4 in England will value Arrows of Desire’s treatment of works by Blake, Shelley and Tennyson.
The series features works by poets included in a range of GSCE, A & AS level and Scottish Standard Grade, Higher and Higher Still syllabuses.
Wales
Key stages 3 and 4
Reading:
The programmes provide opportunities to experience poetry in a range of forms and styles, analysing the various writers’ methods of presenting their ideas.
Programme 4 is by a Welsh author working in English.
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