Analyse an unseen poem, & describe a picture

One-hour live session

Most leading independent schools invite students for interviews or assessment days which include academic questions. If your child’s performance was ‘borderline’ in the examinations, the interview process may be crucial to determine if the prospective school would like to make you an offer. Analysing an unseen poem, prose or picture is a common element of the interview process.

Please be reassured that usually, if an 11+ or 13+ student has passed the written examinations, they should be academically competent and capable of the academic tasks at hand; however, children may not be accustomed to verbally sharing their thought process and articulating their analysis.

I will run an online interactive session to increase your child’s confidence in the task of analysing a poem or picture.

• What is the poem about?
• What is happening in the poem?
• What do certain words/phrases mean?
• What literacy techniques are deployed?

In this session, students will review:

• The title of the poem
• Their initial observations and thoughts
• The structure and language of the poem
• Questions to ask/discuss

Students will also be shown an image to gain confidence in discussing their initial observations and thoughts and consider the setting, characters, and emotions to summarise their view of the picture.

If you sign up for the online gold package or the platinum in-person package, this workshop is automatically included.

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