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Introductory Activity

Activity One

• Poem of the week: 'Lines Written in Early Spring' by William Wordsworth

Poem-by-Poem Activities

'England in 1819' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

• Percy Bysshe Shelley - link 1
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - link 2

Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two

• Peterloo Massacre
• The Peterloo Massacre: what was it and what did it mean?
• History GCSE / National 5: What was the Peterloo Massacre of 1819?

Pre-reading Activities: Activity Three

• Ten things you didn't know about George III
• George III (r. 1760–1820)
• George III
• KING GEORGE III'S DESCENT INTO MADNESS: A TALE OF ROYAL TRAGEDY

'Shall earth no more inspire thee' by Emily Brontë

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

• Emily Brontë, British author
• Brontë, Emily Jane [pseud. Ellis Bell]

'In a London Drawingroom' by George Eliot

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

1. George Eliot (1819–1880)
George Eliot, British author
2. Gender roles in the Victorian Era
Roles Of Women In The Victorian Era
3. Industrial Revolution
4. Breathing in London's history: from the Great Stink to the Great Smog
Too hot? In 1858 a heatwave turned London into a stinking sewer
A London Fog
5. Working Conditions In The Victorian Era

'On an Afternoon train from Purley to Victoria, 1955' by James Berry

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

• James Berry - link 1
• Sailing Away to a New Land: The Writing of James Berry
• James Berry - link 2

Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two

• What is Windrush and who are the Windrush generation?
• The story of the Windrush

During Reading Activities: Activity Two

• Quakers

'Name Journeys' by Raman Mundair

Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two

• Raman Mundair - link 1
• Raman Mundair - link 2

During Reading Activities: Activity One

• Name Journeys by Raman Mundair

'pot' by Shamshad Khan

Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two

• Shamshad Khan - link 1
• Shamshad Khan - link 2

Pre-reading Activities: Activity Three

• Elgin Marbles
• Why Are the Parthenon Marbles so Controversial?

During Reading Activities: Activity One

• Shamshad Khan - Videos

Post-reading Activities: Activity One

• Shamshad Khan

'A Wider View' by Seni Seneviratne

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

1. Seni Seneviratne - link 1
2. Seni Seneviratne - link 2

During Reading Activities: Activity One

• File: Marshall's flax mill, Holbeck, Leeds - exterior - c.1800.jpg

During Reading Activities: Activity Three

'Homing' by Liz Berry

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two

• Liz Berry
• Liz Berry - Poetry

During Reading Activities: Activity One

• Homing

During Reading Activities: Activity Two

• The Ancient Manor of Sedgley - 'Ow we spake' (Black Country Dialect)

'A Century Later' by Imtiaz Dharker

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

• Imtiaz Dharker - link 1
• Imtiaz Dharker - link 2
• The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed

Pre-reading Activities: Activity Three

• MALALA'S STORY
• Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger
• Malala Yousafzai - link 1
• Malala Yousafzai - link 2

'The Jewellery Maker' by Louisa Adjoa Parker

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

• Louisa Adjoa Parker
• Hidden histories of the countryside: Black lives in South West England

'With Birds You're Never Lonely' by Raymond Antrobus

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

• Raymond Antrobus
• An Interview with Raymond Antrobus
• Raymond Antrobus - YouTube

'A Portable Paradise' by Roger Robinson

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

• TS Eliot prize-winner Roger Robinson: ‘I want these poems to help people to practise empathy’

'Like an Heiress' by Grace Nichols

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

• Grace Nichols - link 1
• Grace Nichols - link 2
• Grace Nichols’ ‘pioneering voice’ wins her Queen’s gold medal for poetry

'Thirteen' by Caleb Femi

Pre-reading Activities: Activity One

• Poet Caleb Femi was shot and almost killed as a teenager. Now his new play reveals how reading Frankenstein gave him new life
• Caleb Femi: 'Henceforth I’m solely preoccupied with being a merchant of joy'
• An Interview with Caleb Femi

Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two

Whole-Collection Activities

Context

Activity One

• Commenting on context - AQA

Ideas and Messages

Activity Two

• Meet Ramela, an Armenian from many places
• Meet Nina, from Torbay
• Meet Fin, from Cornwall
• Meet Daniel, from London, Boston and Rowhedege