Weblinks and videos for use with 6207 - Birdsong A Level Activity Pack (first teaching 2015)
Pre-reading Activities
- Vintage Books: Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong: An Introduction
- BBC History: World War I
- BBC Schools: World War I
- The Great War: WW1 Timeline: A Detailed Timeline of the Great War
Part 4
Part 6
- 'If We Return' by F.W. Harvey
- BBC History: Women and the Military during World War One
- Women and WWI - Women in the Workforce: Temporary Men
- BBC Schools: Women at War
Videos
Whole Text Activities
- New York Times: Books: Tunnel Vision By Michael Gorra
- Sebastian Faulks Birdsong Book Review by Anthony Campbell
- Edgeways Books: Sex, War and the Best-seller Lists: Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong
- The Guardian: Soldier's Diary Recalls Horror of the Somme
- IPS Community: Amazing Account of the Battle of the Somme