Free pack · AQA GCSE · Worlds and Lives (first assessment 2025)
Three GCSE lessons on the AQA Worlds and Lives cluster — sent to your inbox.
Wordsworth's Lines Written in Early Spring, Roger Robinson's A Portable Paradise, and Caleb Femi's Thirteen. Each lesson runs 50-60 minutes with do-now, modelled analysis, independent task, student handout, and exit ticket — plus a cross-poem appendix on how speakers carry an inherited world into the world they live in. Drop your email and we'll send the PDF.
The three anchor poems
Three poems on what world a speaker carries.
1798
Lines Written in Early Spring
William Wordsworth
2019
A Portable Paradise
Roger Robinson
2020
Thirteen
Caleb Femi
What’s inside
15 pages of teaching-grade material.
Three full lesson plans
Each lesson runs 50-60 minutes with the same five-section shape — do-now, modelled analysis, independent task, student handout, exit ticket. Designed to slot into a single period without further prep.
AO-aligned modelled analyses
Every modelled analysis names the AO target out loud (AO1, AO2, AO3) and the three method moves to draw out on the page. Built so a non-specialist can confidently lead the discussion.
Printable student handouts
Annotation prompts + sentence starters on a per-poem handout, plus a separate comparison handout with a four-section paragraph scaffold and drafting space. Photocopy-ready.
Cross-poem comparison appendix
Three-row scaffold on the cluster's central question: what world does the speaker carry, what tool do they use to carry it, where does the poem leave the reader? Use as the fourth lesson or as exam-paper prep.
Who it’s for
We wrote this for three teachers in particular.
Year 10 and 11 teachers running the AQA cluster cold
If this is your first time teaching Worlds and Lives — the newest of the three AQA poetry clusters — the pack is enough to ground three lessons without further prep. The handouts work as-is.
Heads of department reviewing department-wide resources
Use the pack as a sample of what the full Storgy AQA scaffold looks like before recommending Teacher Pro to your colleagues. Every poem in the cluster has the same depth on storgy.com.
Teachers who want a sanity-check on AI-drafted resources
Every block is drafted with Claude (Anthropic), passed through a humaniser, and read by a teacher before publishing. The pack is the easiest way to judge whether that pipeline meets your bar.
Want the same depth on every poem?
Storgy Teacher Pro covers all 15 Worlds and Lives poems.
Every poem in the cluster has the same editorial depth as the three in this pack — line-by-line analysis, AO-aligned scoring callouts, printable handouts. Teacher Pro is the same pipeline applied at scale across AQA, Eduqas, and AP Lit.