Valentine
Carol Ann Duffy
Free preview · Eduqas 2027 first exam
Three full editorial analyses from the new Eduqas 2027 anthology — sent to your inbox.
Carol Ann Duffy's Valentine, Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist, and Philip Larkin's Afternoons. Each poem ships with a 50-minute lesson coda and matches the depth of a published Storgy analysis page. The full anthology pack lands later in 2026 — drop your email and we'll send you the rest when it's ready.
3 full analyses50-min lesson codaFirst exam 2027
Exam board
Eduqas / WJEC
Pack
2027 anthology preview
Format
3 analyses · 12 pp
Status
First exam 2027 · all 3 poems in copyright (via your anthology).
The three anchor poems
Three poems with a domestic surface and a sudden swerve.
Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney
Afternoons
Philip Larkin
The PDF does not reproduce the poems. All three are in copyright — the pack names and dates each so you can distribute the text via your Eduqas anthology or a licensed reproduction.
What's inside
12 pages of editorial analysis.
Three full poem analyses at the depth of a published Storgy page, each with a 50-minute lesson coda, plus a cross-poem teaching note and an Eduqas 2027 context briefing.
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Three full editorial analyses
Same depth and structure as a published Storgy poem page — opening claim, form and structure read, image network, scansion notes where they actually matter, and an examiner's-eye summary.
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Lesson coda per poem
A 50-minute teaching sequence at the end of each analysis: do-now, modelled close-read, paired-talk task, and exit-ticket prompt. Designed to slot into a single period.
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Cross-poem teaching note
What these three anchor poems share — domestic surface, sudden tonal break — and how to teach the moment of swerve as a transferable craft move that the rest of the anthology rewards.
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Eduqas 2027 context
A short editorial note on what's confirmed for the first-exam window versus what's still subject to change by WJEC, so you can plan without overcommitting your scheme of work.
We wrote this for three teachers in particular.
GCSE teachers planning ahead for 2027
You've seen the announcement and want to start building lessons before the bookshop shelves catch up. This pack is three poems' worth of teaching material — enough to ground a unit you'll keep refining.
Heads of department scoping resource budgets
Use the preview as a sample of what a full Eduqas 2027 Storgy unit will look like before committing department spend. If the depth is right, the rest of the anthology comes with the same editorial pipeline.
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 preview is the easiest way to judge whether that pipeline meets your bar before you trust the rest.
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Are the poems printed inside the PDF?
No — all three poems are in copyright. The pack names and dates each so you can distribute the text via your Eduqas anthology or a licensed reproduction.
Is the 2027 specification confirmed?
Not entirely. The 2027 specification and anthology contents are subject to change by WJEC. The PDF notes what's confirmed for the first-exam window versus what's still provisional, so you can plan without overcommitting your scheme of work. Storgy is not affiliated with WJEC / Eduqas.
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